Fourteen Republicans voted Wednesday with Democrats of the U.S. House of Representatives to defeat a bill meant to fund the government and avoid a shutdown at the end of the month. The funding measure failed by a vote of 220 to 202. ‘The play that we ran tonight was the right play. … I’m very […]

The witness Democrats invited to testify for Wednesday’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the border crisis said that racism is the major driver behind legislation and ideas for better security at the southern border. Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway downplayed the overall crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border because his county in Arizona is […]

We are just about 50 days away from the presidential election. Can we take the next seven weeks and try to refrain from assassinating Donald Trump? If you were wondering if we are living in a banana republic, rest assured: We are officially here. Here is what reportedly happened during the second assassination attempt against […]

New York police are searching for a man who was caught on video randomly punching an 81-year-old woman from behind on Friday. The NYPD said the incident was reported in Manhattan’s Upper West Side near W. 66th St. and Amsterdam Avenue. ‘He did not take anything. He just hit me for no good reason.’ Video […]

Last Sunday, we saw another attempt on Donald Trump’s life — this time at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the former president was enjoying a last-minute game of golf. As the Secret Service was scouting the area a few holes ahead of Trump, one eagle-eyed agent noticed the barrel […]

Vice President Kamala Harris admitted that “very few” companies engage in price gouging, undercutting her own claim that “corporate price gouging” is to blame for skyrocketing grocery prices. “[Corporations] jack up prices to make it more difficult for desperate people to just get by. We need to take that on,” Harris said on Wednesday. Yet, […]

The great-grandson of William Howard Taft, the rotund former president alleged to have gotten stuck in the White House bathtub, endorsed Kamala Harris on Wednesday. William Howard Taft IV, a Republican national security staffer who served under Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, was among the more than 100 former GOP officials who […]

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin, who has been slamming her opponent for taking donations from the pharma industry, raked in over $90,000 from candidate political action committees backed by drug and medical companies since last year. Slotkin, a U.S. House member, received the donations from five leadership PACs that, in turn, took in $487,000 […]

The State Department grossly mishandled its suspension of scandal-plagued Iran envoy Robert Malley, allowing him to continue accessing classified information and sensitive data after he was disciplined, according to an inspector general report reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The department’s assistant inspector general gathered congressional staffers Wednesday afternoon for a closed-door briefing on the […]

Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Democratic presidential nominee not to receive the Teamsters endorsement in nearly 30 years, with the union declining to back a candidate after a strong majority of its rank-and-file members voted to endorse former president Donald Trump. The union made the announcement Wednesday, saying its “extensive member polling showed […]