Saturday

07-03-2026 Vol 19

Year: 2025

John Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure

The new legislative language is an escalation of the GOP’s efforts to discredit former special counsel Jack Smith.

GOP senators fume that lawmakers got paid throughout record-breaking shutdown: ‘Pure hypocrisy’

“It’s pure hypocrisy. Our military and federal employees shouldn’t be punished because Congress can’t do its job!" Florida Sen. Rick Scott seeethed. “It’s pure hypocrisy. Our military and federal...

Lefty Dems go scorched earth over ending government shutdown — take aim at embattled Schumer

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is taking heat from the far left of his party to step aside after the record-breaking government shutdown looked set to end with nothing to...

Pa. Sen. Dave McCormick welcomes New Yorkers looking to flee Zohran Mamdani — and ‘losing football teams’: ‘The Keystone State is calling’

"Forget about the high taxes, the socialists, the losing football teams. If you're looking for a change of scenery, all you have to do is head west on I-80....

Trump wishes Sergio Gor well in India: ‘Some people don’t like him so much’

WASHINGTON — President Trump hosted an Oval Office send-off Monday for his former personnel chief Sergio Gor, who is moving to India to serve as ambassador in what critics...

Proposed hemp ban tucked into federal funding bill could stall end to gov’t shutdown

A proposed hemp ban that threatens to end the sale of scores of popular THC gummies, vapes and even beverages is tucked into a government-funding bill -- and could...

Trump says MTG has ‘some sort of act going on’

President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a sharp rebuke of Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a onetime ally who has become increasingly critical of the president in recent...

House to return to laundry list of controversies after 7-week hiatus

Speaker Mike Johnson is faced with jump-starting dormant committees, tackling a looming health care deadline and resolving the long-brewing Jeffrey Epstein fight — if he can reopen the government...

Anti-MAGA group calls for Chuck Schumer’s resignation after renegade Senate Dems cave on govt shutdown

They want Schumer to shoo. An aisle-crossing anti-MAGA group called for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to resign Monday after a handful of rebellious Democrats caved on the government...

Trump pledges to ‘abide’ by deal to end government shutdown — but vows to upend Obamacare subsidies

President Trump said Monday that he will abide by the terms of a deal ending the ongoing 41-day government shutdown — but that Republicans will pursue a new plan...