Virginia Republican leaders urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to deny a long-shot petition filed by Democrats from the commonwealth to revive the voter-approved Democratic gerrymander of Virginia’s congressional map. The brief from GOP leaders in the Old Dominion comes days after Virginia Democrats filed an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping to […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) pushed back against redistricting efforts across the country, characterizing red states removing black majority districts as “racism.” “This is Jim Crow 2.0,” Newsom said at a news conference Thursday. “It’s sick. Stone cold racism at a scale I never thought I would see in my life — Never have seen in […]
Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) saved President Donald Trump again from a House defeat Thursday, as the lone Democrat to vote against legislation restricting the commander in chief’s ability to wage war with Iran. Golden, who is retiring from Congress after this term, was the only House Democrat to vote against a war powers resolution by […]
A federal appeals court panel on Thursday questioned President Donald Trump‘s authority to restrict federal contract work from major law firms and a separate effort to revoke the security clearances from attorneys at these firms, whom the government says engaged in “unscrupulous” and partisan behavior. The back-to-back hearings before the Court of Appeals for the […]
Paramount Skydance is reportedly considering inking a podcast deal with Katie Miller, the wife of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller. Miller’s podcast, The Katie Miller Podcast, has featured many high-profile Republican lawmakers and administration officials throughout President Donald Trump‘s second term, giving an inside look into Trumpworld. Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, whose […]
The Justice Department accused Yale University’s medical school of intentionally using race-based admissions policies, alleging the school violated federal law despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 ban on affirmative action in college admissions. In the landmark case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court ruled that universities could no longer consider race in admissions […]
FBI Director Kash Patel went on a “VIP snorkel” excursion at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor during a Hawaii trip last summer, according to government emails obtained by the Associated Press. The outing took place in August 2025, after Patel returned to Hawaii from official visits to Australia and New Zealand, during which […]
A Washington, D.C., Superior Court judge ordered the former executive director of a D.C.-based nonprofit organization to return more than $1 million in alleged misused funds. The Office of the Attorney General sued the H Street Community Development Corporation last year, alleging that former Executive Director Kenneth Brewer illegally used nonprofit funds to pay his own […]
Eric and Lara Trump, the second son and daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump, said they “would never rule anything out” regarding a potential presidential run. Fox News’s Sean Hannity grilled the Trumps while aboard Air Force One for his podcast, Hang Out with Sean Hannity, where he told them not to dodge the question. “If […]
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) confirmed that Virginia would use its current congressional map, drawn in 2021, rather than the Democratic-drawn map from the April referendum, in this year’s midterm elections. Spanberger’s confirmation that the state will retain its current map for 2026, consisting of six Democratic and five Republican districts, clarifies how the Democratic governor […]
