House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is demanding the removal of acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte from his post in exchange for supporting an extension of a government spy tool set to lapse this week. When asked Monday if there was any scenario he would support an extension of Section 702 of the […]
Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of The View, mocked criticism of President Donald Trump’s abrupt exit from a “Meet the Press” interview, quipping, “Why is it every time they lose it’s election fraud?” in response to the president storming off from his Meet the Press interview. “You-know-who … has had a contentious relationship with the media since […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Monday that the California mayoral race result “stinks to high heaven” as the state’s vote-counting process drags on nearly a week after the primary. President Donald Trump had previously said on social media that the race is “rigged” and called California a “3rd World Nation.” Nearly a week […]
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party won a majority in the country’s parliamentary elections, marking a victory for Donald Trump after the president endorsed him. Pashinyan first took power in 2018 in the so-called Velvet Revolution, then won again in the 2021 snap elections triggered by his crushing loss of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War against […]
When President Donald Trump descends on Manhattan Monday night, he’ll be joined by a pair of top White House aides and at least one Republican gubernatorial hopeful, but New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be far away from the action, both on and off the court. Mamdani said at a Monday afternoon press conference […]
The White House sent President Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general to the Senate on Monday, setting up what is expected to be a closely watched confirmation battle for the president’s longtime attorney. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor, emerged as one of Trump’s most prominent legal defenders during the president’s […]
A federal judge on Monday set a tentative trial date for the soldier who was charged with using classified information to profit from bets on Polymarket related to the military operation that resulted in the capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. The trial of Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke has been scheduled for […]
Washington, D.C., Council Chairman Phil Mendelson returned his budget recommendations on Monday with a proposal that cuts deeper into separating the district’s local taxes from President Donald Trump‘s nationwide tax cuts. In late 2025, after Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s sweeping tax cuts into law, the district approved emergency legislation allowing D.C. […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called out President Donald Trump in an X post on Monday, writing: “You’re a president, not a dictator. Act like it.” Sanders’s comments came in response to Trump’s Meet the Press interview on Sunday, in which Trump repeated his long-standing claim that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to former […]
Disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried has applied to expunge his ongoing prison sentence from his permanent record. The request was made by Bankman-Fried to the Department of Justice Office of the Pardon Attorney, according to its database. The California native was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison in 2024 for defrauding investors of more […]
