Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) held a closed-door meeting in which he squashed his party’s plans to reopen the government until after Tuesday’s elections, fearing that a deal before the election could dampen Democratic turnout, according to Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R., Okla.). “Last week, Liz, I know [Senate minority whip] Dick Durbin wanted
Crockett’s secret stock portfolio may run afoul of the Ethics in Government Act, according to the nonpartisan watchdog group Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust Jasmine Crockett Win McNamee/Getty Images) Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) may be in a world of legal trouble for concealing her ownership of stock in at least 25 companies from
Jones’s victory comes as fears of political violence reach a fever pitch across the country Jay Jones (Mike Kropf/Richmond Times-Dispatch) Virginia voters elected Jay Jones (D.), who once fantasized about putting “two bullets” in the head of a GOP lawmaker, to be their next attorney general at a time when political violence is heating up
The radical anti-Israel mayor-elect has pledged to enact a laundry list of far-left programs—and to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani secured a comfortable victory in the 2025 New York City mayoral election, ushering in a new era of Marxist governance in the United States’ largest
Jonathan Mahler’s first book, the 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, was a work of historical journalism that re-created the summer and fall of 1977. Mahler interweaved the story of the New York Yankees World Series-winning season with the chaotic events in the city that year, including the Son of Sam murders, the
Karine Jean-Pierre can’t stop making history. Earlier this year, the former White House press secretary became the highest-ranking openly queer, French-born black woman with a hyphenated surname to publicly renounce the Democratic Party for being mean to Joe Biden. She is the only black female lesbian immigrant to publish a book about her time in
“The members of the Casey family have from the beginning intended that the principal purpose of the Annie E. Casey Foundation would be to support needy children in foster homes,” Jim Casey wrote around 1947. Casey, who founded UPS, was worried about impoverished children, particularly orphans. He set up his foundation in 1948, and as