Media tycoon Ted Turner, founder of CNN, died Wednesday at age 87. Turner is widely credited with pioneering 24/7 cable news. His death was announced in a statement from Turner Enterprises.
The two Democratic candidates running for an open Iowa seat in the Senate sparred over the future of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his connections to “dark money” organizations during Tuesday night’s debate. Schumer came up during the debate when Iowa state Sen. Zach Wahls asked his primary opponent, Iowa state Rep. Josh […]
A federal judge in Rhode Island referred a Justice Department lawyer for investigation into possible misconduct after he withheld details about a detainee’s overseas arrest warrant. Kevin Bolan, who serves as the civil division chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island, revealed he failed to disclose full case details to […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha blasted former President Barack Obama and late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert for praising New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “Colbert says, ‘He names what’s wrong,’” Concha said Wednesday on Fox & Friends First. “Yeah, I guess Mamdani does that, but he doesn’t know how to fix what’s wrong. That’s a […]
The Connecticut legislature is engaged in a marathon debate on controversial gun control legislation, triggering an intense Second Amendment discussion in the state. Discussions on the matter began around 11 a.m. Tuesday, with the debate now pushing toward the 24-hour mark. The bill banning certain Glock-style pistols has already passed in the Democratic House and […]
President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday morning to open the Strait of Hormuz to all nations, including Iran, if the country agrees to the current proposed peace deal with the United States. The president said that if Iran refuses the deal, the U.S. will start bombing the regime again. “Assuming Iran agrees to give what has […]
There are a few confirmed cases of hantavirus in the Netherlands and South America as the trans-Atlantic cruise ship on which the virus was detected heads toward an island south of Spain. Three patients have been evacuated from the ship to receive medical care in the Netherlands, the World Health Organization confirmed. The intergovernmental organization […]
Democrat Chedrick Green won his Michigan state senate race against Republican rival Jason Tunney on Tuesday, delivering a crucial victory for his party. The special election in the 35th District was significant because if Tunney had prevailed, Democrats would have lost their majority in the state Senate, resulting in an even split. As it stands, […]
The presumptive front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination in 2028 spent Tuesday defending President Donald Trump’s Iran war in dramatically different settings, offering an early glimpse into two competing political styles inside the GOP. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the administration’s case from the White House briefing room, where he condemned Iran over the […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is shutting down talk of a party switch, but the speculation itself is already reshaping the early contours of Pennsylvania’s 2028 Senate race. The Democratic senator has become the subject of growing chatter in Washington and back home about whether he could leave the party, driven by his repeated breaks with […]
