The Chinese Communist Party has chalked up a major win for its Belt and Road Initiative, opening a massive shipping canal that will connect swaths of the country to trade routes in Southeast Asia. Beijing announced the official opening of the Pinglu Canal on Wednesday, connecting the Xijiang River with the Gulf of Tonkin in […]

The Trump administration paid nearly $7 billion as part of an effort to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy, according to a watchdog report released Tuesday.  The Government Accountability Office said the government spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave, including $6.7 billion spent on the Department of Government Efficiency’s initiative to incentivize federal […]

Democrat Amy Acton is leading Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in the latest poll for the Ohio gubernatorial general election. Acton is ahead of Ramaswamy by 3 percentage points, according to a Bowling Green State University/YouGov poll released Wednesday. Acton sits at 48% support, while Ramaswamy is at 45%. The remaining 7% of voters who participated in […]

The House Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of centrist Democrats and Republicans, unveiled its agenda to combat mid-decade redistricting, which has been adopted by red states and blue states alike to gain an advantage in the 2026 midterm elections. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY), the group’s co-chairs, said during a Wednesday press conference the […]