As Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) launches his reelection bid, the Pennsylvania governor’s race is coming into focus, with Republicans sidestepping another Doug Mastriano nomination but still confronting a difficult path to defeating the incumbent. Shapiro commenced his 2026 campaign Thursday, opening what may be his last statewide race as national Democrats increasingly view the Pennsylvania […]

A massive influx of applicants filed to take advantage of Minnesota’s new paid leave law before benefits even went into effect, as fraud watchdogs warn that the taxpayer-funded assistance program, which is open to “undocumented workers,” will be widely abused. Approximately 18,000 applications have poured in since the Minnesota Paid Family and Medical Leave Program […]

President Donald Trump is moving more firmly into the camp of Washington’s defense hawks with a muscular foreign policy that cuts against the calls from his own base to retreat from the world stage. Trump has repeatedly worried congressional Republicans with his on-and-off commitment to Ukraine’s war against Russia and entered office taking a decidedly […]

While you were sleeping off your residual New Year’s hangovers the first wee Saturday hours of 2026, President Donald Trump started his military decapitation of Venezuela’s communist dictatorship. And while you were still sleeping, the president ended it, seizing and arresting accused criminal drug trafficker Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia in fewer than 2 […]