President Donald Trump will soon find out whether he has a new wild card to worry about in the Senate after helping send John Cornyn (R-TX) into an early retirement. Cornyn on Tuesday became the second incumbent to lose his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, handing Senate leadership another lame duck with no incentive to back Trump […]
The Texas GOP’s decision to nominate Attorney General Ken Paxton over longtime Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is reigniting one of the Democratic Party’s most persistent political debates: whether Texas is finally becoming competitive enough to justify a massive Senate investment. Democrats immediately celebrated Paxton’s victory as a possible turning point, arguing the embattled attorney general […]
Officials from the United States Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, disputed reports of abandonment on Thursday amid threats of Russian airstrikes in the country’s capital city. The denial comes in response to comments by Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, who claimed the U.S. had evacuated the Embassy. She […]
EXCLUSIVE — Three of the world’s largest asset management firms have used retirement shares as leverage in corporate political fights to push environmental, social, and governance investing goals on Wall Street, a free market watchdog is claiming. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have effectively turned clients’ retirement accounts into pro-ESG voting power, according to a […]
LVIV, UKRAINE — Andriy Zholob, the deputy mayor of Lviv for Veterans Affairs, understood there was, unmistakably, a mental health crisis brewing among Ukrainian veterans after one disquieting phone call. Zholob recounted to the Washington Examiner the moment when a former comrade in arms called him to say his car had been towed away. The veteran, […]
President Donald Trump‘s endorsement has become the closest thing Republicans have to a political death sentence — or a golden ticket. This cycle, Trump has ousted Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and John Cornyn (R-TX), as well as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), after endorsing their primary challengers. So far, nearly all of the Republicans that Trump […]
The United States military conducted two separate “lethal kinetic strikes” this week on two boats suspected of drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The strikes were the latest efforts of Operation Southern Spear and occurred on May 26 and May 27. Three “narco-terrorists” were reportedly killed during the incidents, according to a press release […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will host Thursday’s White House press briefing, becoming the third Cabinet official to step behind the podium while press secretary Karoline Leavitt remains on maternity leave following the birth of her second child earlier this month. Bessent is expected to take questions from reporters in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) appeared to swap politics for deep-sea fishing this week, posting a video of himself reeling in a sailfish alongside former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after losing Kentucky‘s Republican primary to a candidate backed by President Donald Trump. Massie posted the video on X Wednesday with the caption “America First Pacific Summit […]
The Treasury Department on Wednesday reimposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on Palestinian territories, just one week after removing her from a federal sanctions list. The Office of Foreign Asset Control added Albanese to its specially designated nationals list under sanctions tied to the International Criminal Court, according to a Treasury notice […]
