Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who won reelection in Long Island County earlier this week, threw cold water on Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-NY) newly launched 2026 campaign against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D-NY) reelection bid. Blakeman, a possible Republican contender for next year’s gubernatorial race, doubted Stefanik’s chances of beating Hochul based on her limited appeal […]

A federal appeals court ordered a local Ohio school district to dismantle a policy banning the use of biological sex pronouns to refer to transgender students in a ruling on Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit sided 10-7 in an en banc ruling with Defending Education, a parental rights movement group that […]

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he ordered the Department of Justice to investigate meatpacking companies that he said are artificially inflating beef prices, reflecting his broader affordability agenda. In a Truth Social post, Trump said meatpacking companies are driving up beef prices “through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation” and promised to […]

Senators appeared no closer on Friday to a resolution that could end the longest government shutdown in history, as lawmakers were prepared to remain in Washington for a rare weekend session. Tensions flared between the parties as the otherwise mild-mannered Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) traded barbs with Democrats. Republicans categorized a counteroffer from […]