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If Americans are united in anything, it’s pessimism. Call it realism, if you like.  A new poll by Politico and Public First finds 55% of Americans “expect political violence to increase.” Pollsters surveyed 2,051 U.S. adults between Oct. 18 and Oct. 21. They reported a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.

November 02, 2025 2:58 PM ET Former President Barack Obama spoke with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, days before Tuesday’s general election. The call between Obama and the democratic socialist frontrunner comes as several prominent Democrats have kept their distance from Mamdani’s campaign. A source familiar with the conversation confirmed the

November 01, 2025 6:05 PM ET Former CIA Director John Brennan got into a verbal altercation at a George Mason University event Thursday with a counterintelligence expert who asked him why he described some reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as bearing “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Thomas Speciale, a national security

October 30, 2025 5:17 PM ET Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey is pushing to dismiss his indictment because he answered “fundamentally ambiguous questions with literally true answers.” Comey faces charges for lying to Congress during his September 2020 testimony, where he allegedly claimed not to have “authorized someone else at the

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rebuffed calls from major U.S. airlines to get behind a clean continuing resolution and end the 30-day shutdown on Thursday. Delta Air Lines called on Congress to “immediately pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government” and ensure air traffic controllers and TSA agents among other federal employees receive

Mary Rooke Commentary and Analysis Writer October 30, 2025 2:45 PM ET New polling underscores potential Republican momentum in an open-seat contest to replace term-limited Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. The New Jersey gubernatorial election poll published Oct. 28 by Quantus Insights shows Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill leading Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 3 points

October 30, 2025 2:31 PM ET You’d think a guy who’s wrong about everything, all the time, would occasionally, by sheer odds, get something right.  Bill Kristol exists to disprove that notion. Kristol, a longtime GOP strategist and anti-Trump fanatic, is apparently happy to have a left-wing loon control America’s most populous city.  Kristol revealed

THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI — Seven weeks to the day since Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus in Utah, Erika Kirk and Vice President JD Vance took the stage at another university, honoring the late founder of Turning Point USA in an emotional, packed rally. The Daily Caller was a part of the

October 30, 2025 1:55 PM ET Democratic Oregon Rep. Janelle Bynum could not explain on Thursday why she voted against a clean continuing resolution (CR) that Democrats had previously passed in order to keep the government open. Bynum disputed that the Republicans’ funding bill was a clean CR, despite it not having included any policy

October 30, 2025 12:56 PM ET Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee called Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court James Boasberg an “activist judge” for allegedly approving an FBI subpoena against her Republican colleague during a Biden administration probe. Boasberg, an Obama appointee who frequently rules against President Donald Trump’s policies, signed off on