Category: Politics
June 29, 2025
Politics
Diamant Hysenaj, GOP businessman and immigrant from Kosovo, to challenge AOC
Diamant Hysenaj said his upbringing growing up on a farm in Kosovo, then experiencing war and the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, also prepares him to fight to represent...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump now suggests he won’t extend July tariff deadline — while teasing mystery TikTok buyer
The president last week indicated that he would be flexible on the deadline for the rest -- but then Sunday, appeared to pull back on that. The president last...
June 29, 2025
Politics
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis passes on reelection bid after stoking Trump’s ire by voting against ‘big beautiful bill’
“It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election.” “It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election.”
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump says he has group of ‘very wealthy people’ to buy TikTok, predicts China will approve deal
President Trump said in an interview that he had found a buyer for the TikTok short-video app, which he described as a group of "very wealthy people" whose identities...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump says Republicans could miss July 4 deadline to pass ‘big beautiful’ spending bill
President Trump is unsure whether Republicans will get his marquee One Big Beautiful Bill Act to his desk by the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline. “I don’t know. I...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump calls Mamdani a ‘pure communist,’ threatens to cut off NYC federal funds if he’s elected mayor
President Trump slammed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a “pure communist,” warning that federal funding for the Big Apple could be at risk if the democratic...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Trump suggests he’ll target journalists to find out who leaked negative report on Iran strikes
President Trump suggested that federal investigators would coerce reporters to tell the government who leaked the “low confidence” preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that his strikes on Iran...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Zohran Mamdani doubles down on plan to target ‘whiter neighborhoods’ with higher taxes — and says billionaires shouldn’t exist
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani doubled down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” on Sunday — and also asserted...
June 29, 2025
Politics
John Roberts slams ‘dangerous’ rhetoric against courts after SCOTUS handed Trump a major win
Roberts' remarks came a day after the high court concluded its term and handed down decisions in hotly contested cases such as ending the lower courts' ability to issue...
June 29, 2025
Politics
Senate votes 51-49 to advance President Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ spending bill — despite opposition from 2 GOP lawmakers
Debate will now begin on the spending bill – and that could take hours as New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has promised to have the nearly 1,000-page measure...