On the menu: Epstein scandal not going quietly; Cornyn gets a boost; Hogg-tied; Ernst headed for the exits?; “TacticalGramma” There’s something familiar about the way a lot of Democrats are talking these days about their party’s nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani. A standard line from Democrats skeptical of socialistic policies and anxious…
The United States and other countries will have to replicate China’s processing capabilities to dismantle one of Beijing’s most powerful strategic weapons. The Trump White House has made a good start, but the tough work has just begun.
House Republicans greenlighted the first series of funding cuts recommended by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with the $9 billion batch of rescissions heading to President Trump’s desk for signing. The lower chamber approved the cuts, which claw back the federal funding for both public broadcasting and foreign aid, in a 216-213 late Thursday…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) early Friday blasted her Republican and Democratic colleagues after all six of her amendments to the House’s defense appropriations bill failed. The lower chamber advanced the legislation, which allocates around $832 billion in funding for Department of Defense (DOD) programs for fiscal 2026 in a vote overnight. Greene’s amendment to…
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report changed its rating of the 2026 Texas Senate race from “solid Republican” to “likely Republican” this week as the contentious GOP primary between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and state Attorney General Ken Paxton rages on. The ratings change comes as polls consistently show Paxton leading Cornyn in the Republican…
The agreement reflects growing apprehension on the part of both leaders that America’s commitment to NATO is no longer as strong as it once was, at the very time that Vladimir Putin’s Russia poses the greatest security threat to Europe since the Cold War.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Thursday that he thought the Trump administration would have to turn over all the “Epstein files” due to what he characterized as significant bipartisan support for their release. “We need total disclosure of the complete file, redacting only the names and the identities of the minor victims,” the Maryland Democrat…
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s carefully crafted memo claiming that there is no Epstein “client list” is nonsense. There might not have been a “client list” in the FBI’s Epstein files, but the FBI certainly has compiled a list of clients.
Federal immigration officials plan to use the nation’s Medicaid database to “receive identity and location information on aliens.”
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) hit back Thursday at a move by the Trump administration to unseal grand jury testimony related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “Nice try,” the New York congressman wrote on X. President Trump said Thursday that he was directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release relevant grand jury testimony on the Epstein…
