President Donald Trump‘s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to travel to Russia this week for one last face-to-face meeting before the president’s shortened 10-day window for a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war expires. Witkoff will travel to Moscow on Wednesday or Thursday, Trump told reporters on Sunday. Russian state media reported on Monday […]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blasted President Donald Trump for firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. According to the latest BLS report, the economy added just 73,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 4.2%. The report revised job data downward from what was collected over the […]

Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) robbed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) of the spotlight on Sunday in the Democratic response to Texas’s partisan redistricting efforts. Newsom had taken the lead in the conversation, but Pritzker held a news conference with Texas Democrats who had fled to his state to deny the legislature a quorum. Pritzker, surrounded by […]

The recall effort directed toward Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass fizzled out on Monday, when a recall measure needed to qualify for the ballot. Calls for Bass’s recall mounted following her lackluster response to the Los Angeles wildfires in January. The Democratic mayor faced criticism partly for her office’s budget cuts to the Los Angeles […]