Trump says Kellyanne Conway is not being considered for chief of staff

Following a couple of less than ideal public appearances by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney in recent weeks — including a news conference about the site for the 2020 G-7 economic summit and Ukraine issues, as well as an appearance on Fox News Sunday — speculation mounted in the media that President […]

UK police find 39 dead in back of truck in suspected case of human smuggling

Human trafficking is a terrible scourge no matter where in the world it occurs, and those in the United Kingdom just witnessed that firsthand: what appears to have been an attempt to smuggle a truckload of people into the country went tragically wrong. Sky News reported that a semi-truck was discovered parked in an industrial […]

Ocasio-Cortez breaks ranks with Pelosi, throws support behind Texas progressive

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is once again butting heads with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the Democratic Party establishment. The freshman congresswoman has offered up an endorsement for a young far-left progressive like her who is challenging a relatively moderate Democrat incumbent in Texas, the Washington Free Beacon reports. AOC has reportedly thrown her […]

White House to cancel subscriptions to New York Times, Washington Post: Report

President Donald Trump has long sparred with the “fake news” media — and now, two of the nation’s worst offenders will no longer be welcome in his household. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham confirmed to Politico that the White House will not renew its subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post after Trump […]

Report: Rep. Ilhan Omar, campaign consultant sharing DC apartment

There have been persistent rumors for months that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) had split from her husband and father of her children, Ahmed Hirsi, in order to pursue a romantic affair with a political consultant to her campaign named Tim Mynett, something both Omar and Mynett have denied on the rare occasions they’ve even been […]

Julian Castro says he must raise $800k by month’s end or exit presidential race

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Julian Castro, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration and former San Antonio mayor, has never risen out of the lowest tier of candidates in the broad field of Democrats seeking the White House. Castro is now cautioning his supporters that he will soon be forced to […]

Mick Mulvaney: Trump ‘surprised’ by backlash over plan to host G-7 at Doral resort

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced on Thursday that the 2020 G-7 economic summit would be hosted at President Donald Trump’s famous Doral resort in south Florida, and quite predictably, Democrats, the media and Never-Trumpers utterly lost their minds. Following several days of intense criticism over the decision, Trump announced via Twitter […]

3 soliders killed, 3 wounded in training accident at Fort Stewart

An unfortunate accident resulted in a deadly tragedy during a training exercise on Sunday at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia, ABC News reports. Three U.S. Army soldiers were killed and another three hospitalized with injuries after the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle in which they were riding became involved in an “early morning training accident.” […]

Tucker Carlson suggests NBC fired Megyn Kelly for drawing attention to internal misconduct

Nearly a year after she was unceremoniously fired by NBC (ostensibly for making insensitive remarks about wearing “blackface”), former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly returned to the network that brought her fame for a lengthy and engaging interview with Tucker Carlson. While many topics were discussed, Carlson spent some time focused on Kelly’s termination from […]

Chelsea Clinton ends speculation, says she will not run for Congress in 2020

Following the recent announcement that Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) would retire from Congress at the end of the current term, there was widespread talk in political circles that former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton might decide to throw her hat in the ring to succeed Lowey as the representative of New York’s 17th Congressional District, which […]

Barack Obama endorses Justin Trudeau, stays silent on Joe Biden

A key focal point of former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination has been his oft-repeated reminder to everyone that he proudly served alongside former President Barack Obama in the White House for eight years. However, despite Biden’s constant mention of Obama, there has been no reciprocation and Biden […]

Washington Post: Ocasio-Cortez will endorse Bernie Sanders for president

Though she is only a freshman member of Congress — and has yet to serve even a full year in office — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has already vaulted to the forefront of the Democratic Party. And she isn’t hesitating to wield that incredible influence. AOC is set to throw her support behind Sen. Bernie […]

Vice President Mike Pence to head ceasefire delegation to Turkey

All eyes are on northeastern Syria right now as the Turkish military has invaded the neighboring war-torn nation ostensibly with the goal of creating a “safe zone” buffer along the border to reduce the potential for future conflict between Turkey and its Kurdish rivals. The invasion necessitated the withdrawal of a small number of U.S. […]

Trump to ‘take a look’ at possibility of suing Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi

House Democrats, egged on by their media allies, have launched secretive impeachment inquiry proceedings against President Donald Trump over an entirely contrived controversy related to a phone call Trump made in July to the president of Ukraine. At the forefront of the impeachment push is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and chair of the House Intelligence […]

Bill Maher admits confidence ‘waning’ in Joe Biden’s ability to defeat Trump

From the moment he announced his run for the Democrats’ 2020 nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden has been widely heralded as the clear frontrunner and presumptive nominee, based largely upon his name recognition and a belief that his reputation as a centrist gave him the best chance out of all other candidates to prevent […]

Trump reiterates pledge to bring US troops home from ‘never-ending’ wars

One of President Donald Trump’s primary campaign pledges in 2016 was to bring an end to U.S. military involvement in overseas wars, particularly in the Middle East — and despite concerted opposition to that goal from the political establishment and Washington bureaucracy, the president is taking steps toward fulfilling that vow. During a speech delivered […]

Actress Rose McGowan rips Hillary Clinton for protecting ‘predators’ like Harvey Weinstein

Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow was instrumental in exposing the sordid sexual misconduct of disgraced Hollywood producer and Democrat financier Harvey Weinstein in 2017 — but it wasn’t without struggle. Farrow has since released a book that exposes the efforts made by Weinstein and his associates — including NBC executives and even Hillary Clinton — to […]

Bernie Sanders tells CNN he’s ‘not a quitter’ and is ‘ready to go full blast’

Following the revelation that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a top 2020 Democratic presidential contender, had suffered a heart attack during a campaign event, many wondered whether the 78-year-old socialist would continue his campaign. However, despite initially suggesting he would scale back, Sanders is now emphasizing that he is “not a quitter” and intends to keep […]

Two Giuliani associates arrested on campaign finance charges

Two foreign-born associates of the president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who’d been assisting him in his personal investigation of alleged wrongdoing by Obama administration members in Ukraine, have been arrested and charged with violating federal campaign finance laws. Left largely unmentioned in media reports is the fact that the criminal charges are for activities entirely […]

Trump says he doesn’t know identity of ‘whistleblower’

More and more information about the so-called “whistleblower” who lodged a complaint over President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is coming to light, and it seems almost inevitable that the individual’s identity will soon be known — whether Democrats want that to happen or not. President Trump denied on Thursday […]

Democrat Rep. Nita Lowey to retire at end of 2020

Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), a senior member of the House Democratic caucus, has announced she will not run for re-election in 2020.  Lowey’s retirement announcement is especially interesting because one long-rumored prospect to take over Lowey’s seat is none other than former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, according to the New York Post. Sources said that local […]

Cherokee professor laments poor treatment by Warren’s 2020 campaign

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is finally catching up with former Vice President Joe Biden in the race for the Democrats’ 2020 nomination — but with her past coming back to haunt her, that surge in support may be shortlived. Joseph M. Pierce, an associate professor at Stony Brook University in New York who says he’s […]

Stephen Moore: Trump needs to ‘stop saying things that are untrue’

Even President Donald Trump’s closest advisers aren’t reliably on his side. The Hill reports that White House economics adviser Stephen Moore suggested in a recent interview that Trump “talks too much” and needs to learn to stick to the facts. “I think when Trump says things that are false, that does undermine his presidential authority […]

Bernie Sanders to ‘change the nature’ of campaign following heart attack

It was just last week during a campaign event in Las Vegas that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a top contender for the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination, suffered chest pains and was rushed to a local hospital where two stents were inserted to open a blocked coronary artery. It was later confirmed by doctors that Sanders […]

Report: Robert Mueller sought FBI director job in 2017, contrary to own testimony

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s firing of disgraced FBI Director James Comey in 2017, it was widely reported that former FBI Director Robert Mueller went to the White House to be interviewed for that position. He didn’t get it, however, and was instead named the special counsel in charge of the Russia investigation […]

Trump says ‘Crooked Hillary Clinton’ should enter 2020 race

With none of the Democrat 2020 presidential candidates truly catching fire and taking a commanding lead among voters, speculation that failed 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton will jump in to make another run at the White House has dramatically increased. Clinton herself has, perhaps jokingly, helped fuel the speculation that she’s considering launching another campaign — […]