Author name: Minnie Hanson

Republican deficit hawks allowed President Trump’s bill of legislative priorities to advance out of the House Budget Committee in an unusual late-night vote on Sunday, marking a key hurdle cleared for House GOP leaders and a sign of progress for warring Republican factions  After gaveling in after 10 p.m. on Sunday, the committee voted 17-16 […]

Former President Obama on Sunday responded to news of former President Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis by expressing confidence in his former vice president’s “trademark resolve and grace.” He also pointed to the work Biden has done to advance cancer research. “Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family,” Obama wrote in a post

Former President Biden’s political allies and rivals alike sent a flood of well wishes and tributes to the former president on Sunday following news of his cancer diagnosis, praising him as “a fighter.”  The news of Biden’s health challenges came amid renewed scrutiny of his decision to initially run for a second term despite questions

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley said in a Sunday interview that there’s “no way” former FBI Director James Comey didn’t realize his “8647” social media post would be interpreted as a call for violence, as the former FBI director asserted when he took down the post hours later. The RNC chair said Comey should

The joint statement issued on May 12 — announcing a provisional halt to the spiraling tariff war between Washington and Beijing — did more than mark a pause in hostilities. It quietly affirmed a deeper, more uncomfortable truth for Washington: Beijing, measured and unyielding, has once again managed to outmaneuver a Trump administration boxed in by its own belligerence. Far

According to Jewish folklore, in the late 16th-century the Czech city of Prague was threatened with antisemitic attacks. In response, Chief Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created an early Jewish superhero in the attic of what has become known as the Old-New Synagogue. The story goes that the rabbi received a divine order in a

“Saturday Night Live” spoofed President Trump’s recent Middle East trip with a cold open dedicated to his burgeoning bromance with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and controversy over the $400 million luxury jet that the Qatari government gifted the U.S. to replace Air Force One while Trump is in office. “I didn’t make this

Democratic strategist James Carville took aim at Pete Buttigieg over comments the former transportation secretary made casting doubt on whether former President Biden should have run for reelection. When asked by reporters earlier this week if the Democratic party would be in a better position if Biden hadn’t run for a second term, Buttigieg responded,