The mayor of Istanbul raged against the Erdogan regime during his first appearance in court after being arrested by the Turkish government last month. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the most prominent rival of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in court Friday to deny the charge that he made threats against the chief prosecutor of Istanbul […]
Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers requested that Secretary of State Marco Rubio testify in Khalil’s deportation case to expand on the Department of Homeland Security‘s evidence submitted Thursday. DHS lawyers released a two-page memo from Rubio on Tuesday at the request of a judge. The memo outlined the Trump administration’s case for Khalil’s deportation. […]
Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy screamed Friday after a bird landed on his head outside the White House. Doocy was updating the crew of Fox News’s Fox & Friends on U.S.-Chinese relations amid the tariff battle when the bird flew into shot and landed on top of Doocy’s blonde hair. “A bird […]
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) will run for governor of Colorado and attempt to keep the state under Democratic control after the term-limited Gov. Jared Polis steps down. The state’s senior senator announced his entrance into Colorado’s 2026 gubernatorial race in a video on Friday. Polis, who has led the state since 2019, is term-limited and […]
The Senate confirmed retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, President Donald Trump‘s pick for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, early Friday morning after Democrats delayed the process. Caine was confirmed to succeed former Chairman Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., with several Democrats joining all Republicans in voting for him. Trump fired Brown in […]
A shadow primary for Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) Senate seat could soon spill into the open as Democrats wait with bated breath to see whether he runs in 2026. Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, is weeks, perhaps days, away from announcing if he will retire at age 82 or pursue a sixth term that […]
The global price of gold rose above $3,000 an ounce on March 14 and has stayed close to or even above that price ever since. That figure is relevant because of what it says about investors: they’re spooked. Gold can fluctuate in price but tends to hold its value better than most global commodities for […]
Beijing is going full tilt at President Donald Trump as his global tariff war has narrowed into a bilateral game of chicken between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Trump has set tariffs on Chinese goods at approximately 125% in an effort to force the country to renegotiate a perceived trade imbalance — […]
Late in March, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives turned their energies to appliances. They passed two resolutions to strike down energy conservation regulations affecting the manufacture of walk-in coolers, and commercial refrigerators and freezers. The Energy Department finalized these rules near the end of former President Joe Biden’s administration. The two resolutions now […]
The social media app Bluesky wasn’t born out of the storm clouds surrounding Elon Musk‘s Twitter-turned-X, but its growth in popularity is a direct response to a perceived shift to the right for users who prefer to “Tweet.” Bluesky is a microblogging platform that acts, looks, and operates like X. It began as a research […]
