Johnson warns US ‘barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns’ in history

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., delivered a stark warning during a Monday press conference on Day 13 of the government shutdown. ‘We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history unless Democrats drop their partisan demands and pass a clean, no-strings-attached budget to reopen the government and pay our federal workers,’ the leader of […]

Kremlin warns it ‘could end badly for everyone’ if US supplies Ukraine long-range missiles

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned that if the U.S. supplies Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, that ‘could end badly for everyone … most of all, for Trump himself,’ according to a Google translation of his Russian-language Telegram post. ‘It’s been said a hundred times, in a manner understandable even to the star-spangled man, that it’s […]

GOP lawmaker pushes bill to punish cities that ditched Columbus Day after Trump proclamation

A new House GOP proposal would withhold funding from U.S. jurisdictions that celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day. It comes after President Donald Trump signed a proclamation last week declaring Oct. 13 Columbus Day in honor of the famed explorer as well as the heritage of Italian Americans across the U.S. ‘This is […]

Trump heralds ‘golden age of the Middle East’ in address to Israeli Knesset hours after hostages come home

President Donald Trump thanked Israeli lawmakers for their enthusiastic welcome in the Knesset on Monday as the nation celebrated the release of all 20 living hostages from Hamas captivity. ‘After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families,’ Trump said. ‘Twenty-eight more precious loved […]

Instead of impeachment, Dems are using Article II challenges to impede Trump this time

Democrats tenaciously working to thwart the second Trump administration seemingly have thrown out their playbook from the president’s first administration — abandoning repeated attempts to impeach President Donald Trump in favor of broadening their focus on leveraging Article II of the Constitution to impede MAGA policies.  Democrats, since the early days of Trump’s second presidency, […]

Squad 2.0: Meet America’s next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party’s future

Galvanized by President Donald Trump’s sweeping second-term agenda, a new generation of progressive Democrats is working to redefine the party’s future. The original ‘Squad,’ a group of young, left-wing lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 as a referendum on Trump’s first term.  Now, with Trump […]

Netanyahu calls Trump Israel’s ‘greatest friend’ as final living hostages released

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday praised President Donald Trump as the ‘greatest friend’ Israel has ever had, as Hamas released the last 20 living hostages under the new peace deal. ‘No American president has ever done more for Israel,’ Netanyahu said. ‘It ain’t even close.’ He thanked Trump for ‘standing up for Israel’ […]