An anti-abortion GOP candidate’s loss broke a supermajority. Democrats in Iowa are celebrating victory after flipping a state Senate seat to beat an anti-abortion MAGA candidate and break the Republican supermajority stranglehold on the state. Catelin Drey beat Christopher Prosch, who believes rape victims should carry fetuses to term, in a district President Donald Trump … Read more
Trump has displayed record gall in recent days. However else he will be ranked by history, President Trump has already outdone his predecessors in shameless hypocrisy. And he has outdone even himself with his effort this week to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors after one of his appointees accused her … Read more
“Saturday Night Live” alum and star of Netflix’s “Fixed” Beck Bennett dishes on the show’s worst and best hosts and reveals how he knows Vladimir Putin liked his shirtless impression. Over the course of eight years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, Beck Bennett performed comedy with more than 150 celebrity hosts. But no … Read more
The 79-year-old claimed that Wes Moore called him “the greatest president of my lifetime.” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore slammed Donald Trump for his “absolutely comical” memory, stating definitively that he never called him “the greatest president of my lifetime.” Trump, 79, said on Monday that he met Moore, 46, at the Army-Navy college football game … Read more
A longtime political strategist weighs in on the X factor that could help Democrats in 2026 — and hurt them in 2028. America is in the midst of a vast political realignment — not entirely caused by Donald Trump, but certainly accelerated by him. And the biggest indicator of how someone will vote is now … Read more
A nomination hearing for Trump’s pick to fill a vacant Fed board seat is expected next week. President Donald Trump’s rapidly escalating war with the Federal Reserve is set to become one of the first high-profile clashes in Congress when lawmakers return from their August recess. Trump’s move to fire Fed Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook … Read more
Judges may be reluctant to second-guess the president’s claim about what counts as good “cause” for the firing. President Donald Trump’s quest to expand his power has moved to the marble corridors of the Federal Reserve, an institution once considered politically and legally off-limits. It will almost inevitably land at another marbled institution: the Supreme … Read more
The ultra-calculating central bank tried to put off confrontation with Trump for as long as possible. Now, time’s running out. The Federal Reserve is not a place that panics. My experience of the central bank and its staff is that they try to think as many steps ahead as possible. Just as Fed policymakers weigh … Read more
Trump called out South Korea in a social media post hours before meeting the country’s president. And yet Lee Jae-myung was still able to walk away with a smile on his face. The odds were stacked against Lee Jae-myung before he entered the doors of the Oval Office. North Korea continues to ramp up its … Read more
Elise Wolf found out Monday what happened to her home and the longtime Native Bird Care rescue center that she and her husband run on 40 acres a few miles outside Sisters. She and her husband, Whitney Lowe, fled Saturday, releasing some birds in their care a few days before they left and taking others … Read more