Acting Director of National Intelligence William Pulte has announced a fifth wave of office downsizing. “Good News! In addition to the Historic DECLASSIFICATIONS (Transparency!) by the President, we are, this morning, Executing a 5th and Near Final Round of TERMINATIONS, an approximately 30% Staff Reduction from Weeks Ago,” he wrote in a Tuesday post on
Massachusetts lawmakers are taking steps toward prioritizing the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions under a permanent so-called Muslim commission. The group would help recommend Americans who practice Islam to appointed government positions in the New England state at the same time the Trump administration is moving to dismantle such diversity, equity and
EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is warning Dr. Anthony Fauci that his presidential pardon has limits ahead of the former public health official’s high-profile day on Capitol Hill. Fauci is set to testify before a GOP-led Senate panel on Wednesday, days after hundreds of pages of his COVID-19 pandemic-era diary entries were
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday released the private diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the controversial former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief government spokesperson during the COVID-19 pandemic. The released documents show Fauci privately confronted possibilities about the virus’s origins that he publicly downplayed. On Jan. 31,
Two races in politically disparate parts of the country set the stage for one of the most unusual split-screen election days of the year on Tuesday. Rep. David Scott’s death in April at age 80 created a vacancy in a heavily blue district encompassing the southern and eastern Atlanta suburbs of Stockbridge, Conyers and Snellville.
House Democrats’ campaign arm is bolstering five new candidates with less than 100 days to go until the November midterm elections. It comes as Republicans are seizing on a slate of victories by candidates linked to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a far-left party that’s been successful in toppling at least three incumbent House
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is yet to publicly respond to an invitation from a prominent Holocaust museum to visit in order to “truly understand” what “genocide looks like” as he faces criticism from the Jewish community for repeatedly using that label to describe the situation in Gaza. “You keep using the word ‘genocide’
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, declined to apologize Monday night for his “ogre on a pike” metaphor after critics from both parties condemned the leaked remark as violent and, in some cases, sexist. Pressed during the final primary debate before next week’s election, over whether he regretted the rhetoric, El-Sayed defended the
Days after NATO allies committed tens of billions of dollars to new air and missile defenses, the alliance’s top transformation commander warned that the West must fundamentally redesign its weapons and industrial base to withstand attacks at the scale now being demonstrated in Ukraine and the Middle East. “Today, the math is not in favor
The months-long legal battle over the release of former President Joe Biden’s recordings from interviews with his memoir ghostwriter — obtained during special counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents investigation — came to an end on Monday. Biden’s attorneys filed a motion last week to drop their case blocking the release of the audio recordings and