Month: August 2025
August 04, 2025
Congress
How the Kavanaugh confirmation saga still haunts the Senate
The Senate’s contentious confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime judicial appointment shows how a painful moment in the chamber’s history still looms large.
August 04, 2025
Congress
Congress is on summer break. Funding ‘chaos’ awaits.
With eight weeks until the government shutdown deadline, competing factions of lawmakers are starting to define their ultimatums.
August 04, 2025
Politics
Dr. Oz touts $200B investment in Medicaid: ‘I’m trying to save this beautiful program’
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz says the Trump administration plans to invest more than $200 billion "more dollars" into Medicaid following the passage...
August 03, 2025
Politics
Staten Island Democrats embrace Zohran Mamdani, turn on Andrew Cuomo: ‘Voters have spoken’
Staten Island Democratic officials in the city's most conservative borough are jumping on the Zohran Mamdani for mayor bandwagon in what critics are calling the political equivalent of a...
August 03, 2025
Politics
Texas Dems leave state to block vote on redrawn House map backed by Trump
Texas Democrats left the state Sunday in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them...
August 03, 2025
Politics
Tulsi Gabbard explains why Russia must have thought Hillary Clinton win was ‘inevitable’
The Russians privately felt it was "inevitable" that Hillary Clinton would triumph in the 2016 election, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed on the upcoming episode of “Pod...
August 03, 2025
Politics
CNN data guru Harry Enten dubs Trump the ‘most influential president this century’
"Love it, like it, lump it -- Trump's remaking the United States of America," CNN's Harry Enten said as he began a weekend segment on the cable news network....
August 03, 2025
Politics
Smithsonian denies Trump admin pushed to get rid of exhibit’s impeachment placard
The Smithsonian on Saturday denied it was pressured into removing a placard detailing the two impeachments against President Trump at an exhibit in the National Museum of American History....
August 03, 2025
Politics
LI’s Suffolk county offering tax breaks to NYC companies who relocate if Mamdani becomes mayor
"The taxpayers who pay the taxes, how much are they going to put up with?" said Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine. "The taxpayers who pay the taxes, how much...
August 03, 2025
Politics
Hochul warns that ‘pathetic’ Stefanik is just Trump lemming
"If a Republican gets elected as governor against me, think about the power that Donald Trump will have over everything in the state, including the city," Hochul warned on...