Former Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has “the right ideas” to lead the Big Apple, granting the Democratic nominee his endorsement. De Blasio served as New York City’s mayor from 2014 through 2021, and said in an op-ed Tuesday that he is endorsing Mamdani. The former mayor […]
President Donald Trump shot down social media reports that he died or was severely ill over Labor Day weekend during a special announcement in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon. Trump said he has been active over the past few weeks, in sharp contrast to his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, who routinely kept the media at […]
Talk show host Stephen A. Smith will release a new SiriusXM show featuring a political angle. Straight Shooter with Stephen A. Smith will air its first episode on SiriusXM’s POTUS channel on Sept. 17. The show borrows its title from Smith’s memoir Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes. “Airing live at […]
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) plans to call a special session in the Minnesota state legislature to toughen gun laws in the state following a school shooting in Minneapolis last week. The governor said Tuesday he would call state lawmakers and work on a plan to reconvene over the next couple of days. Walz said he […]
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) launched a congressional petition on Tuesday to force a vote on their legislation to release the criminal files on deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein. The procedural move that defies House leadership’s wishes comes as Congress returns from its six-week district work period, and lawmakers are expected to face […]
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett will stand by her consequential vote to overturn Roe v. Wade in her upcoming memoir, “Listening to the Law,” set to be released on Sept. 9. Barrett, who originally scored a $2 million advance for the book, writes that the 1973 Supreme Court decision, which enshrined a constitutional right […]
Paige Cognetti, the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, announced her campaign for the House Tuesday in a bid to unseat Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA). In her launch video, she questioned Bresnahan’s stock trading and his murky financial record since entering Congress earlier this year. “Rob ran for Congress on a promise to ban stock trades. This […]
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), and several public university systems, challenging state laws that offer in-state tuition and financial aid to illegal immigrants despite similar benefits not being equally available to U.S. citizens from other states. In the complaint, filed in the Southern District of Illinois, DOJ officials argue that the laws […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) has decided not to run for a third term in the U.S. Senate, ending more than a decade in Washington and setting off a scramble for her seat in 2026. In a video announcement, Ernst called serving Iowans “the privilege of a lifetime,” citing her upbringing on a farm in southwestern […]
President Donald Trump is making an announcement related to the Department of Defense from the Oval Office at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Trump is reportedly expected to announce the move of the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. THE BATTLE OVER COLORADO’S SPACE COMMAND ISN’T OVER, BUT IT MAY BE ENDING SOON Moving […]
