President Donald Trump urged Senate Republicans early Friday to pass legislation ending the nation’s twice yearly clock changes before lawmakers leave Washington for recess. Trump again called on the Senate to advance the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, in a lengthy post on social media. “Republicans in the Senate […]
Friday’s jobs report for September was a disappointment, showing the economy adding just 29,000 new payroll jobs and the unemployment rate ticking up to 4.2%. But the details of the report suggest that the underlying health of commerce is better than it would seem at first glance. Read on to learn about what the new […]
Flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar recounted the moments he fought to escape the cockpit after being stabbed, in his first public comments since the attempted hijacking on the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. “I was lying on the floor injured, but I told myself to go for one last push to open the door […]
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are hopeful that a 417-page bill introduced this week will be exactly what the country needs to build power lines, pipelines, highways, and other essential infrastructure faster than ever before. The legislation, dubbed the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, was introduced on Wednesday by a bipartisan group of […]
WICHITA, Kansas — When President Donald Trump slammed Bombardier and urged a boycott of the Canadian company’s planes, it threw the 1,500 people working at its American headquarters into uproar. “It was all anyone could think about for days,” said one employee in the parking lot outside its Wichita hangars. “There isn’t a person in […]
Only one thing could put a damper on a good election night for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY): the arrival of Senate nominees who, if successful in November, have vowed to oppose him as Democratic leader. Schumer told reporters this week that he will run for another term as the top Senate Democrat, and that he […]
President Donald Trump is leaning into transactional politics in the final month of the 2026 midterm campaign, tying his administration directly to economic benefits in states that could determine control of Congress. This week alone, Trump has promoted billions of dollars in proposed investments in Alaska and Iowa, redirected $20 million in Department of Homeland […]
The city of Boston pays dozens of diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats six-figure salaries totaling more than $3.6 million, despite its all-Democrat City Council recently dipping into emergency reserves to resolve a multimillion-dollar budget deficit. Thirty-one DEI administrators occupying senior government posts at Boston City Hall make a minimum of $100,000 annually, according to a […]
There have been countless comparisons between the late President Richard Nixon and President Donald Trump, due to their cunning, guile, and Machiavellian approaches to politics. Nixon himself, in a 1987 letter to Trump, a then-celebrity businessman, saw a political future for the younger man in response to a Phil Donahue Show television appearance. But there’s […]
Massachusetts Republicans could have their best chance in decades at winning House seats under a “good government” proposal that California political operatives want to reverse in their state. Massachusetts GOP candidates haven’t gained popularity in the Democratic-dominant state, home to liberal icons such as the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who held his seat for […]
