Secretary of State Marco Rubio got into a verbal altercation with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Tuesday during his hearing with the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Van Hollen criticized Rubio for allowing tech mogul Elon Musk to “take a chainsaw” to the U.S. Agency for International Development, betraying the trust of other countries, […]
The hosts of ABC News’s The View took swipes at CNN, Jake Tapper, and the Trump administration as they attempted to dismiss revelations regarding former President Joe Biden‘s ‘aggressive’ cancer diagnosis and those who shielded him from the public. On Tuesday, the book co-written by Tapper and Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted Maine Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby’s request to restore her voting and speaking privileges in the state legislature after Democratic leaders in the chamber censured her over comments about a transgender athlete. The court ruled 7-2 in favor of an injunction to prevent the state legislature from blocking Libby […]
White House officials are promising that the next chartered flight of self-deporting illegal immigrants will depart soon. “I think it’s great, and you’ll see a lot more of them,” Tom Homan, President Donald Trump‘s “border czar,” told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. There were only 64 passengers on the maiden flight chartered for the Trump […]
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deliver critical assistance to St. Louis, which was devastated by an unprecedented tornado that killed more than a dozen people Friday. Hawley visited the affected area Monday to meet with victims and survey the damage. He said the region would “need lots of […]
Billy Long, President Donald Trump’s nominee for IRS commissioner, minimized his role in selling tax credits that the Treasury Department and IRS claim do not exist and expressed a willingness to cooperate with any investigation into the matter. During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, the former Missouri congressman said his role in the promotion of […]
The debate over congressional stock trading is intensifying amid renewed suspicions of plugged-in politicians acting on insider information to make timely trades. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)’s announcement last week that he supports a ban on members of Congress trading stocks gave new life to a perennial debate over whether stock holdings conflict with legislative […]
MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough refused to walk back his previous defense of former President Joe Biden‘s health even after it was announced Biden has “aggressive” prostate cancer. Scarborough stood by his analysis of Biden following their hourslong interview in March 2024. At the time, Scarborough said, “I undersold him when I said he was cogent,” […]
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani denied on Tuesday that the country’s gift of a jumbo jet amounts to bribery in exchange for the Trump administration’s favor. Qatar offered President Donald Trump a $400 million Boeing 747 jet to replace Air Force One “temporarily” during his Middle East trip. “I call it an exchange […]
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are making an announcement from the Oval Office at 3 p.m. WHAT TRUMP’S GOLDEN DOME COULD PROTECT AMERICANS FROM Though further details weren’t offered, the announcement is likely to concern the appointment of Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein to oversee the development and deployment of Trump’s ambitious “Golden […]
