President Donald Trump nominated Alina Habba, his former campaign spokeswoman and personal lawyer, to be New Jersey’s U.S. attorney. Trump appointed Habba in March to the office as interim U.S. attorney in the Garden State, endorsing a loyal supporter to his administration despite her lack of prosecutorial experience — a move that garnered sharp criticism […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) predicted that if Zohran Mamdani became the mayor of New York, it would prompt an exodus from the city similar to 2020 under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio. Mamdani, 33, recently became the Democratic nominee for mayor and will face off against incumbent Eric Adams in November. The New York state assemblyman […]
Former Democratic District of Columbia Councilman Trayon White, who was expelled from the D.C. Council earlier this year, could be ousted from the legislative body for a second time if he wins a July special election to fill the seat he left vacant following his expulsion. White is running for a special election in the […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba to complete a full four-year term. The White House sent her name to the Senate for confirmation as Habba’s 120-day term nears its end. Habba, first appointed to the position on an interim basis in March, has just […]
The House Freedom Caucus and like-minded allies sent out a three-page document blasting the “failures” of the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a signal that House GOP leaders have not yet convinced holdouts. In the document, fiscal hawks accuse the Senate of increasing deficits, watering down cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, […]
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for legal permission to fire three Democratic-appointed members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after the move was blocked by a lower court. U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox previously ruled that Trump’s termination of Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, and Richard Trumka Jr. was unlawful. He argued that […]
CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday announced the declassified release of a new report identifying “anomalies” in a 2016 intelligence assessment on alleged Russian interference in the presidential election that brought Donald Trump to power nearly nine years ago. In May, Ratcliffe directed the agency’s directorate of analysis to conduct a lessons-learned review of the […]
White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller pushed back against billionaire Elon Musk’s criticism of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, arguing that anyone opposing the legislation “supports the invasion” of illegal immigrants. The Senate narrowly passed the “big, beautiful bill” Tuesday with a 51-50 vote, in which three Republicans opposed the […]
The Libertarian Party national chairman Steven Nekhaila on Tuesday suggested that Elon Musk, who has been openly criticizing President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” should back the third-largest political party instead of creating a new one. The pitch comes after Musk announced he will launch the “America Party” as an alternative to Republicans and Democrats […]
