The House’s decisive vote Tuesday to require the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, after President Donald Trump unexpectedly urged Republicans to support it, has thrust the controversy into the center of the 2026 political stage. Trump had spent weeks dismissing the push for disclosure as a Democratic distraction. But on Sunday night, he abruptly […]
A federal court’s surprise decision to block Texas Republicans from using their newly-drawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections has turned what began as an aggressive mid-decade redistricting offensive into a far murkier fight over who controls the House next year. The ruling, handed down Tuesday by a three-judge panel in El Paso, orders […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister said Wednesday that he will order the closure of the last Russian consulate still operating in the country after authorities said two Ukrainian citizens working for Moscow are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland. Radek Sikorski said he had repeatedly warned Russia that its diplomatic and consular […]
The House is set to vote soon on several bills related to the governance of Washington, D.C., including two bills hitting the House floor on Wednesday focused on criminal justice reform in the district. The lower chamber will consider the District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act and the CLEAN D.C. Act on Wednesday evening, […]
President Donald Trump’s 2024 coalition is in disarray, and the president embarked on a last-ditch effort this week to convince voters ahead of a contested midterm cycle that all is right at the White House. Most notably, the president pulled a complete 180 Sunday night, pressing House Republicans to vote yes on Tuesday’s bill to […]
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up efforts to combat fake news stories, viral artificially generated videos, and misinformation online that claim Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are abusing and kidnapping illegal immigrants as well as Americans. Asked on Tuesday if the federal department should contact Facebook and social media companies to […]
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) blasted members of Congress on Tuesday night for failing to censure Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett. Plaskett was accused of being coached by disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein through text messages to question former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen during a 2019 House Oversight Committee meeting. Luna […]
Displays of the Ten Commandments in Texas schools were ordered by a federal judge on Tuesday to be removed. The schools will have until December to comply with the order. Judge Orlando L. Garcia, of U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, issued the ruling after a lawsuit filed by families claiming that […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is under heavy domestic and international pressure to fire his right-hand man, head of the Ukrainian president’s office, Andriy Yermak, after a massive corruption scandal. Zelensky’s government is embroiled in one of its worst domestic crises since the Russian invasion in February 2022, following accusations by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies, the National […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) used profanity when expressing his belief in the urgency of releasing files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In an appearance on Meidas Media, Schumer let loose when discussing the documents, expressing distrust of President Donald Trump and his Department of Justice. “I just had a […]
