DAK LAK, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi brought fierce winds and torrential rains to Vietnam on Friday, killing at least five people, flattening homes, blowing off roofs and uprooting trees. In the Philippines, where the storm left scores dead earlier in the week, survivors wept over the coffins of their loved ones and braced for another typhoon. As […]
Former President Barack Obama proved Tuesday he still has cards to play when it comes to motivating Democrats to vote in elections, even though he couldn’t quite get then-Vice President Kamala Harris across the finish line last year. Obama heavily campaigned in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections for now Gov.-elects Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), during which long lines wrapped around […]
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) launched her long-anticipated bid for governor on Friday, capping off months of speculation since her nomination to be United Nations ambassador was pulled earlier this year. Stefanik’s campaign released a 2:33-minute video titled “From the Ashes” on Friday that blasts Hochul on affordability, high taxes, and illegal immigrant crime. “From the […]
It was a couple of old guys talking about Ultimate Fighting, but it may have averted a crisis on two continents. President Donald Trump met in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 27 with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The two men, over the course of a few minutes in the Malaysian capital, made […]
California‘s new congressional maps could leave only four of the Golden State’s current nine House Republicans as winners in what’s become a high-stakes game of political musical chairs. Voters in the deep blue state, the nation’s most populous with nearly 40 million people, on Nov. 4 approved Proposition 50, pushed by Democrats to redraw the […]
The Department of Homeland Security boasted of a historic start for the 2026 fiscal year regarding the number of illegal border crossings into the country. Data compiled by the DHS revealed that the U.S. had a record-low number of border crossings in October, marking the start of fiscal 2026. Moreover, the decreased number of border […]
TORONTO — Despite an already frayed relationship between the United States and Canada, President Donald Trump recently abruptly ended trade talks with the Great White North and imposed a 10% tariff on it. The move came after the province of Ontario aired a television ad in late October that used clips from a 1987 anti-tariff radio […]
When President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariff regime finally faced its day in front of the Supreme Court, justices were skeptical. The Nov. 5 arguments revealed significant doubts about the administration’s signature policy, straddling the international and domestic realms. Justices appeared unsure on Trump’s invocation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 U.S. law […]
Former President Barack Obama’s use of executive power and pursuit of policy changes without the constraints of Congress helped set the table for what Democrats now describe as the “authoritarian” ethos of the second Trump administration. From using the Justice Department to achieve partisan goals to advancing his immigration agenda via executive actions, Obama set the […]
At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, Franklin Roosevelt introduced New York Gov. Al Smith as the “happy warrior of the political battlefield.” It’s been a popular pose on the campaign trail for more than 100 years since then, but another New Yorker chose to strike a different pose in his election night victory speech earlier […]
