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Christina Bohannan is facing renewed Republican attacks after a 2021 clip resurfaced showing her calling Iowa’s Back the Blue law an “overreaction.” Bohannan, 59, a University of Iowa law professor turned state legislator, made the comments at a virtual legislative…
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, 55, called for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s arrest during a press conference Thursday, turning the tables on the pro-Palestine socialist who has pledged to detain Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming New…
President Trump was photographed reviewing demolition plans for the Kennedy Center aboard Air Force One on Wednesday night. The image, captured by a photographer after a North Carolina event, shows Trump seated with Bill Pulte, 42, the chairman of Fannie…
Donald Trump has threatened to hit Europe with punishing new tariffs and even cut off trade in some sectors after the European Union moved to bring Canada into its orbit as an associate member. The former president, 79, lashed out…
President Trump issued an all-caps demand for lower rates just hours after the Federal Reserve raised them. The Fed on Wednesday approved its first rate hike in three years, lifting the benchmark by a quarter point to a range of…
Lindy Li has accused the Harris campaign of repeatedly lying about celebrity appearances to pack rallies. Li, a former Democratic National Committee fundraiser who helped raise millions for Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential bid, leveled the charges in her new memoir…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she has stopped listening to Ed Sheeran. The New York congresswoman, 35, delivered the blunt message to the outlet on Tuesday after all supporting acts withdrew from Sheeran’s North American Loop Tour over the removal of Macklemore.…
Jayden Williams, 23, was impeached and removed as Stockbridge mayor Saturday after a 10-hour hearing. The Georgia city’s youngest mayor lost office on a three-to-one council vote just 10 months into his term, following accusations that he ran up roughly…
Rep. Thomas Massie forced a House vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran conflict. The Kentucky Republican, 55, filed articles Tuesday accusing Hegseth of “high crimes and misdemeanors” for waging war without congressional approval. Massie made the…
Gavin Newsom has voiced regret over California’s pandemic-era restrictions while angling toward a possible 2028 White House run. The term-limited Democratic governor, 57, made the admission during a wide-ranging interview’s Jake Tapper conducted while the pair fished knee-deep in a…
President Trump lashed out at his own Supreme Court appointees Tuesday after they joined a majority blocking his mail-in ballot restrictions before the November midterms. Trump, 78, directed his fury at Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh…
The Pentagon issued a legal waiver Monday clearing current and former government personnel to break secrecy oaths and report Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena activity through an official Trump administration channel. The Department of War announced that the new mechanism overrides existing…
Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate on Monday after three months away. The Kentucky Republican, 84, was wheeled out of his Washington home and waved to cameras before heading to the Capitol, where he planned to cast his first vote…
President Trump dismissed existential AI warnings as a “hoax” on Monday even as his own advisers quietly work on a narrow set of guardrails for the technology. The pushback came after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei…
China’s top intelligence chief has publicly warned that artificial intelligence could destabilize Communist Party rule and demanded tighter state control over the technology’s development. Chen Yixin, who leads the Ministry of State Security, issued the stark assessment in an essay…
Bettina Trump broke her silence Monday to defend accepting a lavish wedding gift from a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin. Bettina, who married Donald Trump Jr. On May 21 at a private island ceremony in the Bahamas, took…