President Donald Trump is doling out a plum ambassador post to Kari Lake, tapping her to represent the United States in Jamaica after her rocky tenure leading the Voice of America. The White House announced Lake’s nomination on Monday, two months after a federal judge overturned her efforts to largely shutter the federal news service […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Democrats need to pursue judicial reform after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a victory by repealing a section of the Voting Rights Act permitting redistricting by race. Jeffries criticized the decision, saying on MS Now Saturday, it threw the “American South back into the Jim Crow era” and […]

Sen. John Cornyn’s repost of a tweet from the ‘Republicans against Trump’ account sparked backlash from the MAGA, with some labeling him a “fake Republican.”  CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Margaret Brennan made an X post on the Pentagon’s classified briefing on the impact of the Iran conflict on U.S. weapons systems, prompting a response […]

The Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against more than 25 people in a nationwide crackdown targeting Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, saying the operation resulted in the seizure of more than 80 firearms and 40 pounds of narcotics across multiple states. Federal prosecutors said the defendants, many of whom they said are […]