If foreign policy analysts were hoping the State of the Union address would offer a glimpse into President Donald Trump’s grand plans for Iran, they were sorely disappointed. The address was the longest in the nation’s history, but only a handful of lines touched on the ongoing negotiations to denuclearize the Islamic Republic — and […]
Democrats are pushing back against Republican claims that their response during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address will hurt them politically, arguing the split-screen moment is unlikely to reshape the 2026 midterm election landscape even as the GOP moves quickly to turn it into campaign messaging. The debate followed a moment in which Democrats […]
A federal judge has, for now, barred the Justice Department from searching the electronic devices of a Washington Post reporter that were seized by the FBI last month, ruling instead that the court will conduct its own review of the materials. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter of Virginia wrote in a decision late Tuesday that […]
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos is scheduled to visit the White House on Thursday as the streaming service navigates political regulatory headwinds tied to its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. It is unclear whether Sarandos will meet with President Donald Trump, although the visit comes after the president issued a public demand that Netflix remove […]
A federal judge ruled this week that the Trump administration’s policy of deporting illegal immigrants to third countries is unlawful, despite the Supreme Court allowing the policy to continue last year. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, ruled on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security’s policy of deporting […]
Team USA ice hockey goaltender Jeremy Swayman admitted to reporters on Wednesday that the men’s hockey team should have “reacted differently” to President Donald Trump’s joke about inviting the women’s team to the White House, after both teams won gold medals at the Olympics. Swayman, who joined the team in visiting the White House and […]
A Minneapolis woman has pleaded guilty to laundering more than $1 million in federal funds she stole as part of the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scheme that exploited a pandemic-era child nutrition program, federal prosecutors said. Najmo Ahmed, 35, admitted Wednesday that she falsified records and routed illicit proceeds through her personal bank accounts […]
President Donald Trump endorsed multiple Indiana Republican primary candidates running against “Republican in name only” state senators who voted against mid-decade redistricting. Last December, 21 Republicans joined the Democrats in the Indiana Senate to strike down a Trump-backed redistricting bill that would have given the GOP an edge in the midterm elections by redrawing the […]
Authorities from the FBI and the Department of Justice have conducted raids of the office and private home of the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The raids took place at the public school district’s office building in downtown Los Angeles and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s home in San Pedro. Spokesman for the U.S. […]
President Donald Trump unleashed on Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), after they heckled him in his State of the Union address, saying they should be institutionalized or deported. Omar and Tlaib were two of the most outspoken members of the audience during the State of the Union, throwing curses and insults at […]
