Author name: Lance Hudgins

August 21, 2025 12:04 PM ET Former New Jersey state assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, the GOP nominee for governor, has slashed Democratic New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s lead in half in the state’s 2025 gubernatorial contest, according to recent polling. Ciattarelli, who is running for governor a second time after narrowly losing to incumbent Democratic Gov.

August 21, 2025 11:33 AM ET Democratic California Rep. Robert Garcia suggested on Wednesday night that a Democrat-supported government shutdown should be “on the table” until President Donald Trump removes troops from Washington, D.C. Garcia, whom his colleagues chose in June to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, was asked on MSNBC

August 21, 2025 11:15 AM ET A New York appeals court tossed a nearly half-billion-dollar civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump on Thursday. The penalty, which now stands at over $515 million with interest, is “excessive,” a panel of five judges found. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump last year to pay $355 million in

August 19, 2025 10:01 AM ET President Donald Trump told Fox and Friends the United States may give Ukraine air support as part of the peace deal with Russia. Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Monday to discuss a possible peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. During the meeting

August 18, 2025 5:14 PM ET U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C, Jeanine Pirro announced on Monday that a female suspect was arrested and charged in the nation’s capital for “threatening” to kill President Donald Trump. Law enforcement arrested and federally charged Nathalie Rose Jones with “knowingly and willfully threatening to take the life of the

August 18, 2025 4:44 PM ET A top California Democrat who is expected to help steer the Golden State’s mid-decade redistricting plan through the state legislature was reportedly involved in creating a new district to launch his own congressional run. Mike McGuire, the President pro tempore of the California State Senate, had one of the

August 18, 2025 4:12 PM ET A small rally for Minneapolis Democratic Socialist Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh was held mostly in Somali on Sunday night. Fateh, who currently serves as a Minnesota state senator, announced his mayoral candidacy last year and was recently endorsed by the Minnesota Democratic-Labor-Farmer (DFL) Party. He became the first Somali American and

August 18, 2025 3:47 PM ET Former Attorney General William “Bill” Barr said he never saw any evidence that President Donald Trump intervened or committed a crime relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s case, a source familiar told the Daily Caller. During Monday’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee, Barr testified Trump never offered any input

August 18, 2025 3:31 PM ET The (failing) New York Times (NYT) has arrived with more praise for President Donald Trump disguised as criticism.  Trump “ may have a greater impact on the English language than any president in the history of the United States, maybe ever,” linguist Adam Aleksic writes for The NYT’s opinion

August 18, 2025 2:40 PM ET President Donald Trump didn’t rule out using U.S. troops to help achieve peace in Ukraine, telling reporters Monday that he could make an announcement later today. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Trump in the Oval Office several months after a tense meeting in February and three days after