Democrats are mocking Sam Brown, the Nevada Republican Senate nominee, for flying on one of former President Donald Trump‘s campaign jets alongside Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Trump’s running-mate. But that could be a tough line of attack: Brown’s opponent, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), helped bankroll a “premier” airport in the Silver State that facilitates private […]
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and city Comptroller Brad Lander traded shots at each other in the first glimpse of the two front-runners for the 2025 mayoral general election. Lander declared his candidacy on Tuesday, and Adams quickly took a shot at him during his weekly press conference. “I thought [Lander’s] announcement was to go […]
A House Republican wrote a letter threatening to subpoena Columbia University if the school’s president, Dr. Minouche Shafik, and board of trustees do not hand over a laundry list of information and documents related to an investigation into the prevalence of antisemitism within the university. For months, lawmakers have sent multiple requests for information to […]
State Department spokesman Vedant Patel will brief reporters Thursday shortly after a prisoner swap freeing two Americans from Russia was announced. Patel will also address growing tensions in the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich and former Marine Paul Whelan were released from Russia following months, and in Whelan’s case years, of […]
At least 33 people have been hospitalized after an ammonia leak at a food processing facility in Northern Virginia Wednesday night, according to Loudoun County Fire and Rescue. At approximately 8:36 p.m. last night, authorities responded to reports of a gas leak in a building on the 22400 block of Sous Vide Lane in Sterling, […]
Major U.S. airlines are suspending their flights to and from Israel as tensions continue to rise in the wider region. Delta Airlines said it would be suspending its flights from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Tel Aviv through at least Aug. 2. United Airlines canceled its flights from its hub in Newark, […]
President Joe Biden is celebrating the safe return of three U.S. citizens and one American green card holder who have been wrongly detained in Russia, in some cases for years, including Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Vladimir Kara-Murza. “The deal that secured their freedom was a feat of diplomacy,” Biden wrote Thursday in a […]
Former President Donald Trump lost a bid on Thursday to appeal his gag order in the New York criminal hush money case after saying it gives an unfair advantage to his 2024 presidential election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Lawyers for Trump asked a New York appeals court on July 30 to expedite his effort […]
EXCLUSIVE — Congressional Republicans want to roll back or block efforts by mostly blue states to implement excise sales taxes on firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories that would subsidize gun violence prevention programs and medical trauma centers. Sen. James Risch (R-ID), ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, will introduce a bill Thursday to halt […]
Former President Donald Trump is under pressure for his latest line of attack on Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning her racial identity. Trump spoke at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual conference Wednesday in Chicago, where he got into a tense exchange with several black journalists. At one part of the exchange, Trump implicitly accused […]
