President Donald Trump may be speaking to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner for the first time as commander in chief, but his appearance Saturday really goes back to where it all started while continuing a feud with the media that goes back more than a decade. Long before Trump took his famous ride down […]
The Supreme Court has yet to decide on whether to take up a litany of gun cases, ranging from challenges of “assault weapons” bans to gun rights for 18-to 20-year-olds, as the justices sift through petitions for its next term. In his 2022 majority opinion in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, […]
A fight decades in the making came to a head this week as Texas defeated Houston’s push to stop cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sealing the Democrat-run city’s fate for the time being. The administration of Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), an incumbent seeking a fourth term in November, delivered a blow to Democrats in the nation’s fourth […]
The government of Armenia is trying to warm its formerly tense relationship with Israel in an effort to overhaul its foreign policy, but its overtures are being met with outrage from the public. Israel cultivated a close relationship with Azerbaijan shortly after its independence, with the duo soon becoming one of each other’s most important […]
Three months into her first year as governor of Virginia, Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) signed legislation to uniformly raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2028. The move was a drastic departure from the policy of her predecessor, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), who vetoed the $15 minimum wage proposal during his term and urged […]
There is an old Marxist adage that says “war is the midwife of revolutions.” Over 1,500 days into Russia’s ill-fated invasion of Ukraine, the former Soviet state has once again been transformed into a war economy. Ballooning military spending has eaten away at the government’s ability to render basic social services to its people, and […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will be at odds with his conference next week as he tries to pass a narrow Senate reconciliation bill to fund border enforcement, despite many Republicans wanting a wider bill to boost their 2026 standing. The Senate moved forward with a plan to provide up to $70 billion for Immigration and […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is eyeing another presidential run in 2028 — but first, he’s testing his political strength by going all-in to save Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) from a Trump-backed primary challenger. Paul has increasingly cast himself as a counterweight to Trump-style populism, arguing the GOP needs to rebuild a “free-market wing” made up […]
Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) announced on Friday he is calling Mississippi lawmakers to partake in a special legislative session on redistricting for the state’s judicial maps once the Supreme Court decides the outcome of a racial gerrymandering case. “I don’t typically make news on a Friday afternoon, but today I am going to make an […]
Kalshi said the U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who was indicted and arrested this week for betting on the January raid that led to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro‘s capture was banned from the online prediction market platform. On Thursday, federal prosecutors accused Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, of using classified government information to […]
