Rep. Kevin Kiley ditched the Republican Party on Monday, registering as an independent and carving the GOP's already razor-thin House majority down to a margin that leaves virtually no room for error. The move drops Republicans to 217 seats against Democrats' 214, with three vacancies,…
Nine days into the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that the war will end "very soon" and predicted that global oil prices, which skyrocketed above $100 per barrel over the weekend, will come back down. Speaking at a press…
Rep. Kevin Kiley of California announced Monday that he will formally abandon the Republican Party this week, filing a letter with the House clerk to drop his GOP identification for the remainder of the current Congress. He will become the sole independent member of the…
Princess Eugenie has stepped down as patron of Anti-Slavery International, the UK's oldest anti-slavery charity, after seven years. Her profile has been removed from the organization's website. The departure follows the US Department of Justice's release of millions of documents and emails relating to Jeffrey…
Staffers from the office of the Architect of the Capitol on Saturday morning installed a plaque on the Senate side of the Capitol building honoring the U.S. Capitol Police, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department, and other law enforcement agencies that defended the building during the January…
The right is arguing with itself over Iran, and the argument is getting louder by the day. President Trump's strikes on Iran have opened a visible rift among some of his most prominent supporters, with figures ranging from Steve Bannon to Tucker Carlson to Megyn…
The two most prominent Democrats jockeying for 2028 can't get out of their own way. A new NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters found that both Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris are deeply underwater in favorability, raising serious questions about…
Venezuela's state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. signed new contracts last week to supply crude oil and refined products to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries, a move Interior Secretary Doug Burgum framed as a strategic realignment of American energy sourcing away from volatile chokepoints in…
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas publicly broke with his own party's Senate nominee on Saturday, telling Fox News he flatly disagrees with James Talarico's vision of a "giant welcome mat" at the southern border. Asked by "Saturday in America" host Kayleigh McEnany whether he…
President Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to deliver a pointed message to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer: thanks, but no thanks. "The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft…
Jesse Jackson Jr. stood before mourners at his father's memorial service Saturday in Chicago and delivered a sharp rebuke of three former Democratic presidents who had spoken in the preceding hours. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden each took the stage at Rev. Jesse…
Wisconsin's Assembly Bill 948, which would prohibit student cell phone use throughout the full school day, cleared the Senate Committee on Education with a 4-1 vote on Friday and now heads to the full Senate. If approved, the measure lands on Gov. Tony Evers' desk.…
Twelve members of Texas's congressional delegation elected in 2024 won't be back next year. Eleven are incumbents. One is deceased. That's nearly one-third of the Texas congressional delegation, the second largest in the country at 38 members, behind only California's 52. The number may still…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told "60 Minutes" that Iran will have no choice but to capitulate, with President Trump setting the terms of any resolution as the joint US-Israeli military operation stretches into its second week. The message was blunt. No diplomatic hedging. No off-ramps…
