Roy Cooper deletes voting photo after image appears to show him using the ID he fought to keep optional

Former North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper posted three photographs of himself voting in the state's primaries on Thursday — then quietly deleted the post and put it back up with one of the images missing. The original post on X showed Cooper at the polls during early voting, and one of the photographs appeared […]

Fetterman stands alone as every other Senate Democrat votes to block Homeland Security funding

Sen. John Fetterman broke with his entire party on Thursday, casting the only Democrat vote to advance a full-year funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. Every other Democrat in the Senate voted to block it. The Pennsylvania senator framed his decision in blunt, practical terms — the kind of reasoning that used to […]

Trump to chair inaugural Board of Peace meeting, unveil multi-billion-dollar Gaza reconstruction plan

President Trump will personally chair the first formal meeting of the Board of Peace on February 19, where he plans to unveil a sweeping multi-billion-dollar reconstruction blueprint for Gaza and detail the deployment of a UN-authorized international stabilization force to the territory. According to the Daily Mail, delegations from no fewer than 20 nations are […]

House votes to overturn Trump's Canada tariffs after six Republicans defect

Six House Republicans crossed party lines Wednesday evening to hand Democrats a 219-211 vote terminating President Trump's emergency powers behind his 25% tariff on Canadian goods. The resolution of disapproval passed after Democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York forced the vote — an opening that existed only because House Republican leadership failed to pass […]

Fetterman breaks with Democrats, says voter ID is 'not unreasonable' as House advances SAVE Act

Sen. John Fetterman told Newsmax on Wednesday that most Americans have no problem showing identification to vote — and that his own party's apocalyptic rhetoric about the practice is wildly overblown. The Pennsylvania Democrat's comments landed as the House adopted a closed rule for consideration of the SAVE America Act by a razor-thin 216-215 vote […]

House passes critical mineral supply chain bill as Trump administration builds global resource strategy

The House passed the Securing America's Critical Mineral Supply Act on Wednesday by a vote of 223-206, directing the Department of Energy to assess vulnerabilities in the U.S. critical mineral supply chain and develop strategies to fix them. According to the Washington Examiner, the bill, authored by Rep. John James (R-MI) and co-sponsored by Reps. […]

Nancy Guthrie's son-in-law vanishes from sight as a legal loophole allows warrantless searches of his home

Tommaso Cioni, the last person to see Nancy Guthrie before she disappeared from her Tucson home, hasn't been spotted in public since February 3. Meanwhile, police have searched the house he shares with his wife — Nancy's daughter Annie — multiple times without a warrant, exploiting a quirk in Fourth Amendment law that allows one […]

Colombian President Gustavo Petro claims he survived an assassination attempt on a helicopter

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced during a live cabinet meeting that he survived an assassination attempt on Monday night after his helicopter was unable to land along the country's Caribbean coast. The aircraft diverted to open sea, where it remained for four hours before landing at an unplanned location. Petro told his cabinet that unnamed […]

House clears bipartisan housing bill 390-9, targeting regulatory barriers and HUD reform

The House passed the Housing for the 21st Century Act on Monday by a vote of 390-9 — a margin so lopsided it barely qualifies as a vote and more closely resembles a consensus. The bill, co-sponsored by House Financial Services Chairman French Hill (R-AR) and Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA), aims to cut regulatory […]

White House stands behind Commerce Secretary Lutnick as Democrats and Massie demand resignation over Epstein ties

The White House fired back Tuesday against mounting calls for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to step down, with spokesman Kush Desai dismissing the pressure campaign as a distraction from the administration's policy agenda. Desai, in an email to CNBC, framed the cabinet as unified and operational: "President Trump has assembled the best and most transformative […]
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