President Donald Trump will meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday, the first ever meeting between the political foils. Trump has consistently attacked Mamdani, a socialist whom the president frequently calls a “communist,” since his campaign began picking up steam. The president additionally endorsed Mamdani’s chief opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew
Democratic Majority for Israel PAC is making an early play in the 2026 Senate landscape, endorsing four Democrats across critical battlegrounds, a move that, in several races, helps shore up candidates facing mounting pressure from Israel-skeptical progressives. The group is backing Reps. Angie Craig (D-MN), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Chris Pappas (D-NH), and former North Carolina
On Wednesday, Nvidia, the world leader in artificial intelligence computing, reported its third-quarter numbers, blowing past Wall Street’s revenue and earnings expectations and issuing a stronger-than-expected forecast for the current quarter. CEO Jensen Huang described demand for the company’s newest generation of accelerated computing chips, Blackwell, as “off the charts.” Demand exceeds supply for Nvidia’s chips by a ratio of
Bill Gates dropped a truth bomb that has the potential to fundamentally reshape the climate conversation in our country. After years of aligning with the doomsday narrative that focuses exclusively on arbitrary, short-term emissions targets, he reversed course. Gates admitted what many of us in the heartland have known all along: While climate change poses
Democratic Rep. Al Green (Texas) called on the Senate to remove the late Sen. Richard Russell’s (D-Ga.) name from one of its office buildings, citing the latter’s segregationist views. Green, in a letter to every senator, said the name “sends a powerful signal about the kind of leadership and principles our country holds in high…
Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) are co-sponsoring a resolution that calls for raising the threshold to censure House lawmakers. Since the lower chamber returned after nearly two months away last week, three House members — Reps. Chuy García (D-Ill.) and Cory Mills (R-Fla.), along with Del. Stacey Plaskett (D), who represents the…
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said she believes President Trump should “button it up” regarding his suggestion that six Democratic members of Congress should be imprisoned or even executed. Earlier Thursday, the president called the lawmakers “traitors” for urging active duty military members to disobey unlawful orders from his administration. “I would just call upon him…
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) has escaped an expulsion vote — for now. The Florida Democrat was indicted by the Justice Department on Wednesday evening on charges of stealing emergency disaster funding to enrich her family and underwrite her campaign. Cherfilus-McCormick has denied the charges, but that did nothing to discourage Rep. Greg Steube (R), a…
A small group of women known as some of the fiercest MAGA stalwarts in the House have led the way in pushing back against President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on some of the most high-profile issues of recent months — many involving the victimization of women. These lawmakers have been on an island…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. government’s decision to designate Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization provides the Defense Department with “new options” to go after the alleged drug cartel, which officials alleged is headed by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “Well, it brings a whole bunch of new options to the…
