Government

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces House lawmakers Tuesday to make the case for the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget request, a nearly 50 percent jump from 2026 levels, as Democrats vow the spending plan will “never pass” and the Iran conflict drains weapons stockpiles at an alarming rate. The hearing before the House Appropriations Committee will […]

Virginia Democrats poured roughly $70 million into a mid-decade redistricting campaign designed to redraw the state’s congressional map in their favor. The Virginia Supreme Court wiped it out in a single 4, 3 ruling, finding that lawmakers violated the state constitution’s required procedures, and now Democrats are openly blaming each other for the wreckage. The […]

The U.S. Department of Energy fired back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday after his press office claimed on X that “California is now powered by 67% clean energy.” The DOE’s reply was blunt: “False.” “Just 15% of CA primary energy consumption comes from ‘renewables,’” the department posted. “More than 75% of CA energy […]

The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday threw out a voter-approved congressional redistricting map that would have handed Democrats a commanding 10, 1 advantage in the state’s House delegation, ruling that the legislature violated the state constitution in pushing the measure to the ballot. The decision landed like a cold bucket of water on a Democratic […]

The mayor of Cohutta, Georgia, fired every member of the town’s police department on Wednesday, all 10 employees, including the chief, and posted a sign on the station door announcing the force had been dissolved. The move came roughly one week after town officials publicly declared that a simmering dispute involving the mayor’s wife had […]

President Donald Trump announced Friday that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire beginning Saturday and running through Monday, paired with a massive prisoner exchange, 1,000 captives returned by each side. The deal, which Trump said he personally requested, marks the most concrete step toward de-escalation in the four-year conflict and the first […]

Katie Porter, the Democratic candidate for California governor, released a 30-second campaign spot Monday that tried to repackage her history of on-camera outbursts as a lighthearted personality quirk. Critics from both parties responded by calling it one of the worst political ads they had ever seen. The ad showed Porter grocery shopping, filling up her […]

Tennessee’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a new congressional map Thursday that would carve up the state’s sole remaining Democratic district, setting the stage for a potential 9-0 GOP delegation and drawing immediate protests inside the Capitol and a lawsuit from the NAACP. The measure now heads to Gov. Bill Lee, who is expected to sign it […]

Trump-backed challengers defeated at least five of the seven targeted Republican state senators in Indiana’s Tuesday night primaries, a decisive rout of incumbents who had refused to support the president’s push to redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the midterm elections. The results sent a clear message through Republican politics: cross the president on […]

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has called a special legislative session for Tuesday to consider a new congressional map that could eliminate the state’s only remaining Democratic-held House seat, giving Republicans a clean 9-0 sweep of the delegation before the 2026 midterms. The move came days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana congressional […]