A fire at a popular ski resort bar in the Swiss Alps has left around 100 people injured, and several dozen feared dead. The fire in Cans-Montana, Switzerland, a ski resort town, began at around 1:30 a.m. local time and was sparked at Le Constellation bar during a New Year’s celebration. Swiss law enforcement officials […]
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) hit House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in an X post responding to the committee’s hearing announcement on the Minnesota fraud scandal. The House Oversight Committee announced its first hearings into the Minnesota day care fraud controversy, which will include testimony from state Reps. Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson, and Marion Rarick, all of […]
President Donald Trump rang in the New Year at Mar-a-Lago, but when he returns to Washington, D.C., 2026 could be the biggest year of his second term. Trump will spend the whole year with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, assuming resignations don’t take their toll in the lower chamber. But those majorities will […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was sworn in at a decommissioned subway station on New Year’s Day after rising to fame last year. Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, was sworn in ahead of his inauguration ceremony, just weeks after winning the crowded race to become New York City‘s mayor. Mamdani beat out former New York […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani convinced many progressive Democrats that they could find success employing his flashy, eye-catching campaign style. He rode his prominent promises of fast and free buses, a rent freeze for certain tenants, and no-cost child care all the way to Gracie Mansion and over the well-politically established former Gov. Andrew […]
A left-wing activist group opposing President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown in Washington, D.C., has been coaching residents on how to use jury duty as a form of political activism, explicitly encouraging them to “influence outcomes” in criminal cases. Free DC, a progressive organizing group that has emerged as one of the most visible opponents […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is set to introduce New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Thursday as Republicans aim to paint him as the leader of the Democratic Party. The GOP has persisted in its efforts in recent months to tie Democrats to the socialist who won the high-profile New York mayoral race last month. […]
Former President Joe Biden and his allies defended his use of an autopen during his presidency, but the practice largely drew scrutiny. Biden confirmed to the New York Times in July that he authorized the autopen. He said he used the machine, which allows someone to duplicate the signature of the commander in chief on […]
Democrats capped off a year of encouraging election results on Tuesday with victory in a closely watched Iowa special election. That result, coupled with gains earlier this year, as well as historic trends, points to them enjoying wider success in the 2026 midterm elections. However, strategists in both parties have cautioned against reading too much […]
TEL AVIV, Israel – President Donald Trump’s willingness to sit down with any world leader, even dictators, has allies, such as Israel, on edge. Trump’s untraditional approach to diplomacy has been criticized for rewarding bad behavior from the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the pair meeting last summer in Alaska, to North Korean […]
