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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is fresh off summer recess and approaching the new term with typical insight.  Jackson and her colleagues sat for oral argument in the case of Chiles v. Salazar   this Tuesday. One of Jackson’s questions prompted an attorney to refer the justice to the First Amendment.  The case is

October 09, 2025 8:43 AM ET Republican Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra has emerged as the early frontrunner in the 2026 GOP gubernatorial primary in new polling, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The survey found Feenstra with 41% support while no other GOP candidate declared in the race drew more than 5% support. The

Two Senate Republicans crossed party lines Wednesday evening in a failed effort to block President Donald Trump from launching military strikes on alleged drug trafficking ships in the Caribbean. The resolution , sponsored by multiple Senate Democrats and Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, would have restricted Trump’s authority in conducting such strikes, citing Congress’s sole

October 08, 2025 6:07 PM ET President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will classify Antifa as a “foreign terrorist organization.” Trump convened a White House roundtable on Antifa on Wednesday to pledge an aggressive crackdown against the group. The event followed his order and Federal Register entry listing Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization —

October 07, 2025 10:30 PM ET Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed pay raises for the state’s firefighters months after the disastrous Los Angeles County fires that caused billions in damage. Massive fires swept through Southern California in early January, burning thousands of acres across several cities and forcing hundreds to flee their homes. During

October 07, 2025 7:51 PM ET More than 70% of Americans support the Trump administration’s decision to blow up cartel drug boats, according to a recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll. Since President Donald Trump’s return to office in January, he has led a major crackdown on drug cartels, designating certain international groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

October 07, 2025 5:51 PM ET The Senate confirmed 107 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a single vote on Tuesday evening, significantly clearing the backlog of the president’s picks awaiting floor consideration. Senators voted along party lines to approve the large group of nominees, which included former football star and ex-Senate candidate Herschel Walker

October 07, 2025 5:33 PM ET Senate Democrats are acknowledging the harm their own constituents could face during a prolonged shutdown, but are increasingly dug in against reopening the government until their $1.5 trillion in spending demands are met. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy told reporters that shutdowns are a “nightmare” and are impacting his

October 07, 2025 5:11 PM ET A super PAC closely aligned with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is reportedly urging Democrats to hold firm in the government shutdown fight, arguing that the party is winning the political messaging battle, according to a memo obtained by Axios. The memo from Senate Majority PAC (SMP), one of

October 07, 2025 4:06 PM ET Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for launching “a genocidal war” in a Tuesday statement reflecting on the anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. Mamdani, a self-avowed socialist, briefly condemned the “horrific war crime” carried out by