Former President Barack Obama appeared in a live taping of Pod Save America on Thursday, celebrating the Democratic victories in Tuesday’s elections. Obama flexed his political influence in the 2025 gubernatorial elections, successfully stumping for Govs.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) in the lead-up to Election Day. He drew massive crowds in Newark, […]

Ukraine held its breath during President Donald Trump’s Friday bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the White House, through which Orban steadily sought to move the president off his current position on its war against Russia. Orban’s meeting with Trump, over lunch in the White House’s Cabinet Room, comes as Ukraine expresses […]

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President Donald Trump lost his cool Friday when pressed on the topic of “affordability,” a top issue that helped fuel Democrats’ across-the-board election wins earlier this week. Trump said earlier in the week that the main drivers of Republican losses were the government shutdown and the fact that he himself was not on the ballot. […]