(Left) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). (Right) Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 30, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images For two days this week, senators took turns proposing ways to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. For two days, each proposal
Washington — Ric Grenell is leaving his post as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, President Trump said Friday, and Matt Floca will be named CEO and executive director. The president made the announcement on Truth Social saying Grenell has done an “excellent job” during the center’s transition and thanked him
Chicago also under pressure as Fitch cautions about ‘management ineffectiveness’ Zohran Mamdani speaks to members of the media at a Brooklyn library on December 17, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) March 13, 2026 image/svg+xml A mostly obscure and widely derided sector of the financial industry—bond rating agencies—may be one of
When George Soros spends millions of dollars to elect soft-on-crime prosecutors in many of the United States’ biggest cities, much of that money ends up in the hands of a single Manhattan-based communications firm that’s boosted prosecutors’ campaigns. Campaign finance records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that the PACs Soros uses to fund
Washington — Ric Grenell is leaving his post as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, President Trump said Friday, and Matt Floca will be named CEO and executive director. The president made the announcement on Truth Social saying Grenell has done an “excellent job” during the center’s transition and thanked him
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Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed on Jan. 2, 2026. Jon Elswick/AP Photo One of the guards on duty when Jeffrey Epstein died in his cell will testify before the House Oversight Committee later this month. “The Oversight Committee has questions for Tova