Senate leaders inched toward votes to end the shutdown as negotiators huddled again Thursday, eyeing a plan to pair a short-term stopgap with a bipartisan funding package and a set date for a vote on extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. But key rifts remain over the subsidies and how...
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts apologized to staff for defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to host white nationalist Nick Fuentes, calling it a mistake. In leaked town hall footage, he said he knew little about Fuentes and that a now resigned chief of staff scripted his post. Roberts condemned Fuentes’s antisemitic...
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board dismissed Donald Trump’s claim he wasn’t to blame for the GOP’s rout, citing double-digit defeats in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City and warning of “bigger problems in 2026.” Democrats exceeded polls as Governors-Elect Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill won, with Virginia’s “tsunami”...
Two Catholic bishops with ties to President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission publicly criticized the administration after immigrant detainees were denied access to sacraments central to their faith. Citing a Broadview, Illinois facility and a class-action lawsuit alleging mass constitutional violations, Bishops Kevin C. Rhoades and Robert Barron noted clergy were...
New York City’s mayoral race thrust Zohran Mamdani and his platform into a fierce transatlantic debate. Critics at home called free buses, universal childcare, city-run groceries and rent freezes unaffordable, while European voices said such programs are routine. Examples ranged from Tallinn’s fare-free transit and Istanbul’s municipal groceries to Portugal...
USDA officials reversed course on food-stamp cuts, saying late Wednesday that SNAP recipients will receive up to 65% of their November benefits after recalculations showed payments should be reduced by 35%, not by half. The Justice Department said the agency recognized the error and sent states new guidance. The shift...
Trump administration officials told lawmakers the U.S. isn’t planning strikes inside Venezuela and lacks legal grounds for land targets, despite a Caribbean military buildup. An existing Justice Department opinion authorizes attacks on suspected drug boats, including 16 since September that killed at least 67 people, but not on land. Officials...
Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral race on a promise to freeze rents for roughly two million rent stabilized tenants, but the housing battles awaiting him start well before any vote. He vowed to revive ailing NYCHA buildings, where $78 billion in repairs loom. He plans to evict Elizabeth...
A controversy over Nick Fuentes’s rise has exposed tensions on the right as national conservatism struggles to distance itself from explicit bigotry. After Tucker Carlson interviewed him, Republicans including Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson condemned it, even as parts of the movement echo Fuentes on identity...
On day 37 of the shutdown, President Trump pressed Republicans to scrap the Senate filibuster as Democrats, buoyed by election wins, resist. Bipartisan talks are exploring a short-term funding bill and limited appropriations, though expiring health care subsidies remain a hurdle. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Trump’s tariff authority...
