Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best […]
Move comes one week after Trump announced all US sanctions on Syria would be lifted The EU has agreed to lift economic sanctions on Syria in a bid to help the war-torn country recover after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. After the decision by EU foreign ministers on Tuesday, the EU’s chief diplomat, […]
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed a possible prisoner swap involving nine Americans during their phone call this week, The Associated Press reported. Russian presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov, who previously served as Russian ambassador to the U.S., made the announcement after Trump and Putin spoke for two hours Monday. Putin and Trump […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio fired back at Sen. Chris Van Hollen after the Maryland Democrat said he regretted voting for Rubio as President Donald Trump’s chief foreign affairs adviser, leading to a fiery exchange during a Senate hearing on Tuesday. Rubio testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the State Department’s budget proposal […]
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — There’s a new LGBTQ mural in the District just in time for the start of WorldPride. It’s a colorful display on 15th Street NW, but it also adds a safety component for families. Steady brush strokes are slowly turning regular pavement into a rainbow road. “Everything’s coming together,” said Lisa […]
CNN anchor Jake Tapper beat back questions about what he knew about former President Biden’s mental acuity before the 2024 election ahead of the release of his new book about the former president’s decline. “The criticism has been that you’re complaining about a cover up about Joe Biden’s mental acuity,” pundit Megyn Kelly said as […]
The news around former President Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis is putting a spotlight on his physician, Kevin O’Connor, and whether he had taken adequate measures to monitor Biden’s health. Biden’s personal office said in a statement on Sunday that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last Friday after he was “was seen for a new […]
After spending nearly $300m to help elect Trump last year, the tech billionaire says he has ‘done enough’ Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday that he would decrease the amount of money he spends on politics for the foreseeable future. If true, the reduction would represent a significant turnaround after the world’s richest person positioned himself […]
The billionaire executive was Trump’s biggest donor in 2024. Now, however, he is planning to cut back his spending on politics, he said on Tuesday. (Image credit: Scott Olson)
The platform will offer a new season and 90 hours of previous episodes to its 300 million subscribers.
Sterling Williams is accused of helping 10 inmates escape the Orleans Parish Jail on Friday.
ALLENTOWN, PA – President Donald Trump supporters and Americans for Prosperity (AFP) protesters lined the streets outside Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna’s town hall in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Saturday night. However, three pro-Trump protesters who wandered inside the half-empty town hall found unlikely common ground with the Silicon Valley Democrat, who is considered […]
President Donald Trump rallied House Republicans behind closed doors to pass his “one big, beautiful bill” as soon as possible – and to quickly resolve their interparty disagreements in the process. Trump made a rare visit to Capitol Hill just days before the House of Representatives is expected to vote on a massive bill advancing […]
Tapper’s book, co-authored by Alex Thompson, describes a president who struggled to function: “One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman.” (Image credit: Christopher Furlong)
Researchers studied the health care program’s effect on the health of millions of Americans and found tens of thousands of lives were saved. (Image credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stamps. The move, announced Monday by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, would affect about 152,000 people in Nebraska enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, […]
Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka is no longer facing a federal trespassing charge over an incident earlier this month at Delaney Hall, a privately operated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in his city. “After extensive consideration, we have agreed to dismiss Mayor Baraka’s misdemeanor charge of trespass for the sake of moving forward,” […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed Washington Sen. Patty Murray during a Tuesday Senate hearing for allegedly “presiding over the destruction” of Americans’ health across her more than 30 years in the upper chamber. “You’ve presided here, I think, for 32 years. You presided over the destruction of the health of […]
“Gasoline prices have collapsed under President Trump.”
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“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary took aim at the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” backed by President Trump on Tuesday, warning that a section related to small business tax audits will “cause chaos in valuations.” “We’ve got a situation in this new beautiful bill,” O’Leary, often a supporter of Trump’s economic policies, told Fox Business anchor […]
