While speaking out against President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” tax cut package, an 81-year-old Democratic congresswoman stumbled on the House floor. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) reportedly stumbled during a heated floor debate, where she had been echoing Democratic critiques of what she called Trump’s “big, ugly bill.” The incident occurred continue reading …
Former GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell has experienced several health emergencies over the past couple of years, which is likely what led to his decision to call it a career after his current term expires in January. In fact, McConnell was hospitalized after a reported “cardiac arrest” involving CPR to revive him late last week. … Read more
Donald Trump has been on Iran’s assassination list since he ordered Qassem Soleimani turned into a crater in 2020. After Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated Iran’s nuclear program and Operation Epic Fury decimated its military and political leadership, the threats haven’t stopped — they’ve intensified. Banners at Khamenei’s funeral. Assassination continue reading …
Tim Walz just handed a get-out-of-deportation-free card to a man who sexually abused a 10-year-old girl. Marco Rubio tore it up and put him on a plane. That’s the entire story. And every American needs to know it. Tou Lue Vang came to the United States as a child from Laos. He pled guilty to … Read more
A federal judge appointed by former President Ronald Reagan announced that he has resigned from the bench. Mark Wolf, appointed by Reagan in 1985, wrote in The Atlantic that he had expected to remain on the court for the rest of his life but felt compelled to step down. Wolf wrote that he was giving … Read more
A growing dispute over America’s closest allies has sparked another political showdown, this time reaching beyond Washington and into the relationship between the United States and one of its oldest European partners. The move comes as tensions continue to rise over the war in the Middle East, with disagreements over Israel’s military campaign increasingly continue … Read more
My daughter’s vacation ended before it ever began, and it ended under the flat white lights of an airport terminal with an empty passport case shaking in her nine-year-old hands. Ellie was small for her age, still young enough to sleep with a stuffed fox tucked beneath her chin, but she was old enough by … Read more
I started paying rent to my parents the day I moved back home. I was twenty two, fresh out of college, carrying the heavy, invisible luggage of starting over. My dad, Mark, had been laid off from the manufacturing plant where he’d spent thirty years, and the silence in our house was heavy with his … Read more
The call came from my neighbor while I was still buried in work mode, my head full of deadlines and site notes and the small ordinary weight of a Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Rowan’s voice on the other end was low and tight, the voice of a woman choosing her words with care because she knew … Read more
The sharp smell of lemon cleaner blended with the warm scent of freshly baked bread the moment I opened my apartment door, and the contrast hit me so hard I froze in the doorway, certain for one suspended second that exhaustion had carried me into the wrong unit entirely. My first thought was that I’d … Read more
