WASHINGTON — Nobody home. Gone fishing. The lights are out in the federal government. The House of Representatives chamber is deserted and silent as a tomb. It's almost as if its Republican leaders don't care if the country is in crisis. While the president carries out a bloody plot to ...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to the Windy City, calling mob violence against immigration officials a "flimsy pretext." Follow this closely, New Yorkers and residents of ...
Exactly why are the Democrats trying to save Republicans from a drubbing in the midterms? Their shutdown of the government to stop cuts in health coverage does not work to their political advantage — or ultimately help those they purport to be protecting. Republicans running for reelection ...
President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them. The president signed the flurry of executive orders he issued the day he returned to office with a Sharpie. He's used them for years, finding them more reliable than fancier ...
When President Donald Trump dropped the bizarre suggestion last week that the military should use American cities as "training grounds" to fight what he called "an enemy within," it sounded almost like old news. After all, Trump has talked like this for years. "Don't take him literally," some ...
The secretary of defense opens his laptop late at night on Sept. 29. He logs on to his favorite AI chatbot. It greets him. Hi, Pete. What can I do for you tonight? Pete? I thought I asked you to call me Major Tough Guy. You're absolutely right. You did. Thanks for setting me straight, ...
