Month: November 2025

A jury also found Trump liable for defaming the longtime advice columnist when he made comments in October 2022 denying her allegation.

The “Last Word” host argued that a polarizing deal to end the government shutdown could lead to major revelations about the president’s biggest scandal.

“This took 3,000 years to get to this point,” President Trump proclaimed last month as he heralded the agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of the last Israeli hostages. It was indeed a significant agreement, a long time coming. But whether it was an achievement for the ages will depend on what…
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A senior federal judge in Massachusetts, appointed by former President Reagan, said he resigned Friday in protest against President Trump. U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf wrote in The Atlantic that he stepped down because he “no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom.” Wolf…

There is a pointed purpose to the increasingly spicy rulings and dissents coming from across the judiciary.

The president ranted after the justices appeared skeptical about whether Trump has the authority to impose sweeping tariffs.

The deal struck between Senate Republicans and Democrats to reopen the government allows for federal paychecks and other funding components to resume with senators also set to hold a vote on health care tax credits. On Monday, the Senate voted 60-40 to pass a bill to fund military construction, Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) shot back at President Trump after he mocked her for quoting the Constitution and becoming involved in the nation’s politics. In an interview Monday on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Trump invoked Omar when railing against the Democratic Party. “I look at somebody that comes from Somalia, where they don’t have…
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The “Tonight Show” host riffed on Trump’s game plan to have the stadium named for him.

Jon Stewart is shredding Democrats who voted to end the government shutdown, calling the move a “world-class collapse.” “They f‑‑‑ing caved on the shutdown,” Stewart said Monday while hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” “Tonight’s show will be brought to you by ‘I can’t f‑‑‑ing believe it,’” he cracked. “Not even a full week removed from the…
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President Trump is visiting Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday morning where he will deliver remarks and take part in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor veterans. The president’s Veterans Day speech comes a day after the Senate advanced the stopgap funding bill to reopen the government after more than 40 days. The House is expected to…
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The recent meeting between Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping might as well have been called the walk-back summit.   Both parties declared a mutual truce in what has been an ominous, gradually escalating trade war. Beyond exercising national self-restraint by not further exacerbating the economic confrontation, they agreed to roll back recent actions: Trump would soften his tariffs and China would soften its response. But, in a larger sense, Trump’s America First…
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Democratic strategist David Axelrod predicted on Monday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will not retain his leadership post after next year’s midterm elections. “I think he’s been in trouble. I think he is in bigger trouble now,” Axelrod told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, when asked if Schumer is “in trouble here with the left…
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The president argued during a recent Fox News interview that voters have been lied to about this widespread concern.

Despite the Senate advancing legislation to bring the record-long government shutdown to an end, do not expect air travel to immediately revert back to normal.  The 42-day funding lapse, which has caused air traffic controllers to miss two consecutive paychecks as of Tuesday, has led to chaos at airports nationwide. Controllers have missed work at…
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Flight reductions across American airports went up to 6 percent on Tuesday, with cancellations and delays slowly growing within the early hours. A total of 745 flights have so far been delayed on Tuesday, with 1,180 flights canceled, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware. These numbers do not distinguish between those caused by the FAA’s reduction…
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The Senate on Monday night voted to reopen the federal government, advancing the funding package to the House for consideration and opening a rift among Democrats as eight senators made a deal with Republicans. House lawmakers will make their way back to Washington after nearly two months out of session in time for a vote…
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A Utah judge on Monday rejected a Republican-approved congressional map in favor of an alternative that will create a Democratic-leaning district in the Beehive State. Third District Judge Dianna Gibson wrote in her ruling that the map, which had a finalizing deadline on Monday, “does not comply with Utah law.” Republicans’ House map, known as…
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The Trump administration says it’s working on a plan that could make 50-year mortgages a reality, a move aimed at helping younger Americans buy homes. “A 50 Year Mortgage is simply a potential weapon in a WIDE arsenal of solutions that we are developing right now,” Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte wrote on…
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Politics is not an exact science. The results of some elections are hard to read. But not last week’s.  The results from the four major races on Nov. 4 — a governor’s race in Virginia and New Jersey, a mayor’s race in New York City, and an initiative campaign in California — leave no doubt.…
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Trump is unlikely to be happy with this particular comparison…

The Texas congresswoman courted controversy with her eyebrow-raising remarks about the voting technology company.

Most “MAGA loyalists will go wherever Trump leads,” argued The Washington Post’s Max Boot.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent campaign has driven a surge of younger Democratic candidates running for office and provided a roadmap for a new generation of politicians.  Since last Tuesday, over 4,000 people inquired about running for office through Run for Something, Ally Boguhn, its senior communications and marketing director, told The Hill.…
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President Donald Trump’s supporters expressed their anger.