A group of House conservatives ended their weeks-long blockade of the floor Tuesday, giving Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., a significant victory after the standoff had effectively halted legislative business for nearly a month. The House approved a procedural rule in a 215-211 vote, clearing the way for consideration of a State Department appropriations continue reading … Read more
Trump Administration Pushes Toward Iran Deal as Qatar Talks Continue, While U.S. Forces Conduct Defensive Strikes The Trump administration is working to finalize the framework of a potential agreement aimed at ending the conflict with Iran, as diplomatic negotiations continue through channels in Qatar, according to senior U.S. officials. Secretary of continue reading …
Senator Bernie Moreno previewed it best: the most important Oval Office address since the Cuban Missile Crisis. That’s a bold comparison. The contents of Thursday night’s primetime address justify it. In a speech that NBC and ABC refused to air — a decision Trump called out by name from the podium and for which he … Read more
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden death on Sunday shocked the nation and drew an outpouring of prayers. Now, several prominent figures are being floated as possible replacements for Graham. One of those names is Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina Republican governor and former U.N. ambassador in President Donald Trump’s first continue reading … Read more
On the night my grandmother turned seventy nine, she sat by the paddock fence and fed her birthday cake piece by piece to a thirty year old horse named Duke. Forty feet away, under the string lights, my parents raised champagne flutes and posed for selfies. My mother’s caption read, big farm sale, new chapter. … Read more
The night everything changed, Daniel Whitaker did not arrive like a rich man coming to collect revenge. He arrived in an old work jacket that smelled faintly of pipe solder, road salt, and spilled gas station coffee. Snow stuck to the hood of his truck in wet sheets as he turned into the Collins subdivision … Read more
The Key Near the Door I came home late from the hospital that night and turned on the air conditioning in the living room for ten minutes, and before those ten minutes were up my mother-in-law had crossed the room, yanked open the electrical panel, and cut the power cord with a pair of kitchen … Read more
Leave now or I’ll call the police. My son bought this apartment for me. My mother in law screamed those words before I had even managed to drag my second suitcase across the threshold. For one strange second, I thought exhaustion had rearranged reality. I had been on a delayed flight from Boston, my shoulder … Read more
My parents called at 1:00 in the morning screaming for twenty thousand dollars, insisting my brother was in the emergency room and needed help immediately. I asked one question, what hospital, and instead of answering, they panicked harder. My father barked at me to stop asking questions. My mother started crying louder. That was when … Read more
My name is Emily Carter. I’m thirty years old, and until last Christmas, I honestly believed there was a limit to how cruel a family could be while still calling it love. I was standing in my parents’ dining room with a paper plate in my hand, surrounded by thirty relatives, when my mother tapped … Read more
