Witkoff and Kushner scheduled to meet Putin in Moscow

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said he and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday to discuss a potential peace deal that would end the country’s nearly four-year war with Ukraine. ″[There’s been] lots of progress in the last six to eight weeks,” […]

ICE funding bill draws fire from left and right as shutdown deadline nears

Both conservatives and progressives are venting frustrations with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill expected to get a vote this week, potentially throwing Congress’ goal to avert a government shutdown by Jan. 30 into question. The bill is part of a bundle of four spending bills the GOP hopes to pass before the […]

Bessent mocks Newsom at Davos as ‘Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken’

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out at California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, calling him “economically illiterate” and accusing him of prioritizing elite global gatherings over the state’s mounting fiscal, housing, and homelessness crises. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bessent used the high-profile meeting to deliver a blistering critique of Newsom’s […]

Kaine wants to rein in Trump’s war powers, but never did the same for Biden, Obama

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., has time and again pushed to rein in President Donald Trump’s war authorities, but he has rarely gone to the same lengths for his own party’s presidents. Kaine’s argument has stayed fairly consistent over the years that Congress should reassert its constitutional authority and decision-making in the run-up to a military […]

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