Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, knocked back a report that she is set to quit her demanding role, describing it as a “piece of Friday fiction.” A story posted on Friday evening by the Daily Mail, citing five insiders, claims Wiles, 69, is planning to depart after the November midterm elections. “She […]
LOS ANGELES — Xavier Becerra, former President Joe Biden’s health and human services secretary, advanced to November’s general election in California’s gubernatorial race on Friday. With roughly 66% of the vote counted, Becerra emerged from a crowded field of more than 60 candidates with about 26.7%, according to the Associated Press, inking the first spot for […]
The U.S. military downed four Iranian drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday evening, marking the latest scuffle as the fragile ceasefire holds in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. “The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. “U.S. forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal […]
President Donald Trump dinged California for its delay in reporting all the results from this week’s primary elections. During his opening remarks at an agriculture policy roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Trump alleged without evidence that the delay was due to California “rigging the election.” “Can you imagine?” Trump asked the roundtable and surrounding crowd. […]
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is set to take the stage with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) at a get-out-the-vote event in Bar Harbor on Friday at 7 p.m. The event will cap off what has been a scandal-filled week for Platner, after news broke that he had sent sexually explicit text messages to women […]
The Department of Justice announced that three U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of allegedly plotting to finance ISIS‘s terrorist operations against U.S. service members. Bisaam Ghafoor, 21, of Leawood, Kansas; Elias Shamsaldeen, 21, of Porterville, California; and Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California, were arrested early Friday by the FBI over an alleged plan […]
By hour 13 of Thursday’s Senate “vote-a-rama,” Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was growing visibly frustrated. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) had spent the day consulting with the parliamentarian on a way, any way, to block an anti-weaponization fund the Justice Department had announced weeks earlier, and he was busy shuttling to and from the Senate […]
Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the Henry Nowak murder rocking the United Kingdom on Friday, saying the university student would still be alive today if European leaders stood up against the “politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants.” The murder of 18-year-old Nowak by Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old British-born Sikh, has sparked […]
Azerbaijani authorities vehemently denied a CNN report claiming Israel carried out advanced intelligence and military operations from its territory during the war with Iran. Israel and Azerbaijan have been known to be close allies since the 1990s, but a CNN report, citing four sources familiar with the matter, alleged a previously unknown element in their […]
New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier is benefiting from significant super PAC spending, even as she campaigns on banning super PAC money in elections. American Priorities launched a $500,000 media buy in support of Avila Chevalier, per FEC filings, in her progressive challenge to Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY). The group, […]
