Thune, who has represented South Dakota in the upper chamber since 2005, bested Texas’s John Cornyn and Florida’s Rick Scott John Thune, Mitch McConnell (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Longtime Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell officially has a replacement: South Dakota’s John Thune, who bested Texas’s John Cornyn and Florida’s Rick Scott in the race to succeed
Democratic lawmakers in the House are blaming Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) for their party’s steep election losses, suggesting the defeat “would never have happened” under former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), Axios reported. “I have a feeling people would say this would never have happened under” Pelosi, a House progressive, who spoke
The docs, leaked through a pro-Iran Telegram channel last month, showed Israeli military movements ahead of counterstrike on Iran Israeli military moves near Lebanese border, Nov. 2023 (Amir Levy/Getty Images) An overseas CIA officer was arrested Tuesday in Cambodia and charged with leaking highly classified U.S. intelligence on Israel’s military plans for a strike on
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has led two federal prosecutions against Donald Trump, will resign along with other members of his team before the president-elect assumes office in January, sources told the New York Times. Smith charged Trump last year with conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and illegally retaining classified
Tides Foundation’s donors include George Soros and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Palestinian protesters burn the U.S. flag during a demonstration. (Getty Images) The Tides Foundation, a left-wing dark money giant backed by George Soros and other progressive billionaires, bankrolled the fiscal sponsor of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an anti-Semitic group sanctioned in the
Donald Trump has tapped Army combat veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his next defense secretary, the president-elect announced Tuesday. Hegseth, who earned two bronze stars from combat tours, served as a platoon leader at the Guantanamo Bay naval facility and fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a longtime
‘I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male,’ Dem rep told New York Times Seth Moulton (cropped, Alex Wong/Getty Images) Tufts University walked back a threat from its political science chairman to stop sending interns to Rep. Seth Moulton’s office after the Massachusetts Democrat