“A has power over B,” said the political scientist Robert Dahl, “to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” In Washington’s new power equation, “A” is Donald Trump and “B” is everyone else. He has spent nearly a decade in presidential politics, remade the Republican Party
‘CNN is so arrogant, they are so used to getting whatever they want,’ plaintiff’s attorney says A clip of Jake Tapper plays during CNN’s defamation trial in Panama City, Fla. (Free Beacon) PANAMA CITY, Fla.—Jurors in the $1 billion defamation suit against CNN ended deliberations Thursday evening without handing down a decision. They will resume
Former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum (R.) and former New York congressman Lee Zeldin (R.), President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead the Interior Department and EPA, respectively, appear to have a glide path to Senate approval following their confirmation hearings Thursday. Burgum and Zeldin—who, if confirmed, will oversee the bulk of Trump’s aggressive energy and
Tom Goldstein, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer and publisher of SCOTUSblog, was indicted Thursday for allegedly evading taxes for years and taking millions from his law firm’s funds to cover gambling debts. Goldstein, an “ultrahigh-stakes poker player,” allegedly orchestrated a scheme between 2016 and 2022 to “evade the assessment of taxes, file false tax returns,
‘I march for Jim Acosta and a free press,’ the eight-year-old sign read CNN anchor Jim Acosta showed off a fan-made, pro-Acosta sign he’d kept for eight years as he preached about journalists’ importance to cap off his Thursday show. “Journalists exist to seek the truth, to tell people’s stories, to lift up voices that
‘We do not have a revenue problem in the United States of America. We have a spending problem,’ Bessent tells Senate (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, sailed through his first round of confirmation hearings on Thursday and pledged to empower “Main Street” businesses. In his opening
‘We have no additional companies to give you,’ dispatcher tells engine leader Firefighters walk down a hill as they battle the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Shortly after 8 p.m. on Jan. 7, when wildfires first scorched into Los Angeles, firefighters called for help to save three burning houses. The dispatcher replied