Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t just show up to Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing; he came loaded for bear. Ostensibly there to discuss the FY26 State Department budget, Rubio instead delivered a scathing indictment of China’s global con game and exposed shocking failures in America’s foreign aid system. What unfolded wasn’t routine […]

Or…there was until the Trump administration party poopers rode into town. You’ll remember one of the biggest drop-mic revelations was the $20B slush fund new Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin, along with Musk’s DOGE waste-huntin’ hounds found stashed in a sketchy secret Citibank account. That money was allocated […]

Imagine a split-screen. On the left: Ronald Reagan, 1987, standing before the Berlin Wall, the world’s eyes upon him, his voice crisp. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” On the right: Joe Biden, 2023, wandering offstage in Hanoi while “Don’t Stop Believin’” drowns out the silence. Both were elderly leaders in their second […]

Today could be huge for Republican efforts to pass their “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill, which would fulfill a number of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, such as extending his 2017 tax cuts and funding border security. On paper, the budget bill is in its final stages. The bill came to the House Rules Committee—the […]

A vast credibility gap greeted the latest explanation for why former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer was never disclosed during his presidency. On Sunday, Biden’s representatives announced that he had prostate cancer that had spread to his bones. Medical experts have said that Biden’s condition, as announced, would be unlikely to have developed since Biden […]