Antony Blinken failed to attend a Tuesday hearing on the Biden-Harris administration’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, defying a congressional subpoena and setting the stage for him to be the first secretary of state ever held in contempt of Congress. Blinken was mandated under subpoena by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to testify about the botched
Vice President Kamala Harris won’t say whether she is still committed to decriminalizing sex work, a stance she embraced during her 2020 presidential campaign, Axios reported Tuesday. Harris’s campaign did not respond this week to Axios’s inquiry about her position on prostitution and declined to make Harris available for a brief interview. In 2019, when
Voters in six swing states trust former president Donald Trump more than Vice President Kamala Harris on key global policy concerns including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, according to new polling from the Institute for Global Affairs. When asked who would more strongly defend U.S. interests abroad, respondents favored Trump over Harris 56 percent
The Democratic Senate nominee announced his engagement to the public in 2020 and then his marriage in 2021. But he got married in 2019. What gives? Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) declared himself “the happiest man in the world” in February 2020 after his then-girlfriend, real estate lobbyist Sydney Barron, accepted his marriage proposal. “She
The suspect, a Honduran national, was on probation after beating a woman he lived with Ramon A. Chavez-Rodriguez and Officer David Lee (@alexiszotos on X, @SLMPD on X) A 24-year-old illegal immigrant was charged Monday in the death of a St. Louis police officer after hitting the officer with his car, according to police. The
A Lebanese reporter known to disseminate pro-Hezbollah propaganda was reportedly injured after an Israeli bomb landed outside his home during a live television interview. The reporter, Fadi Boudia, let out a guttural scream before his camera cut. Boudia, described by some as “one of Hezbollah’s top propagandists,” was preparing for an interview on Israel’s Monday
Maryland Senate candidate shaved at least $16,600 by claiming property tax exemptions for which she was ineligible Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Maryland’s open Senate seat, has pledged to crack down on tax handouts for wealthy Americans. But when it comes to her own taxes, Alsobrooks isn’t afraid to bend the rules to pad