President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair on the National Mall has turned into a Washington punchline, and a firsthand account in Slate found the 16-day celebration earned the ribbing. Slate writer Molly Olmstead visited expecting to find an overlooked upside but reported the opposite, call…
House Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers home for the July 4 recess two days early on Tuesday after members of his own party sank a key procedural vote, the second week running that Republican infighting has frozen the House floor.The chamber voted 198-224 to reject a rule that would have merged Pr…
When Rep. Tom Kean went missing from Congress for nearly four months, the speculation ran wild. Where was he? Was he hiding something? Was his marriage in trouble? Had he done something to be ashamed of?Reporters camped outside his New Jersey home. A colleague said he hadn’t heard from him. The myst…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) lashed out at far-right rebels in his caucus as their plan to force passage of the SAVE America Act crumbled around them on Tuesday, CNN reported.The SAVE America Act, pushed aggressively by President Donald Trump for months, would add draconian new requirements to …
A legal expert was alarmed on Tuesday after analyzing the recent spate of opinions handed down by the Supreme Court. Quinta Jurecic, a staff writer at The Atlantic, said in a recent interview with Will Gotsegen, another staff writer at the publication, that the Supreme Court sent a troubling signal …
A presidential historian is sounding the alarm about a recent mining deal that’s expected to enrich the Trump family.”The audacity is so off the Richter scale,” Douglas Brinkley said about a deal between the Trump administration and Kazakhstan to access one of the world’s largest untapped reserves o…
Political analysts ridiculed Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday night after he gave a bizarre interview to Fox News host Laura Ingraham. During the interview, Vance claimed that Democrats were not working with Republicans to address the rising cost of living. That’s despite Congress passing the 21st…
President Donald Trump lost big at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as a majority of the justices struck down his executive order abolishing birthright citizenship in the United States — but it’s possible there’s an alternate reality in which he could have won this, the conservative Wall Street Journal …
CNN analysts stressed the gravity of revelations of Trump’s major profits from cryptocurrency.According to a New York Times report, the Trump family profited to the tune of $1.4 billion through their cryptocurrency business. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper described the revelations as “incredible” and “s…
President Donald Trump’s top adviser Stephen Miller suggested on Fox News Tuesday evening that now the Supreme Court has struck down the executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, the administration could retaliate by prohibiting all foreign pregnant women from entering the country as a mean…