“Bari Weiss is not a journalist. She is an asset of the Trump administration,” said progressive group Our Revolution.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is demanding the removal of acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte from his post in exchange for supporting an extension of a government spy tool set to lapse this week. When asked Monday if there was any scenario he would support an extension of Section 702 of the […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Monday that the California mayoral race result “stinks to high heaven” as the state’s vote-counting process drags on nearly a week after the primary. President Donald Trump had previously said on social media that the race is “rigged” and called California a “3rd World Nation.” Nearly a week […]
President Donald Trump just received a public assist from House Speaker Mike Johnson in his unsubstantiated claims that California’s elections have been stolen — but Johnson himself admitted that Trump’s claims are “impossible to prove.”“I'm not saying it's rigged,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday. “I'm saying it stinks to high heaven. And everybody knows that. Let's remove the appearance of impropriety. Let's have, what a concept, let's have votes on an election the day of the election. That's what many states are able to do. I think California is playing around with this.”When Raju asked whether Johnson has any evidence that the election is being rigged, the House Speaker admitted that he does not.“I don't — some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream that it is impossible to prove,” Johnson told Raju. “But I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here. And that's a concern. We need people to believe in the integrity of our election system.”Johnson has been accused of controlling the House Republicans rather than serving the traditional presidential role of respecting the balance of power between the executive and legislature. In fact, NOTUS reported on Monday that Trump has so much power over the House, he has joked that he and not Johnson is in fact the real House Speaker.“I have two jobs: being president and being speaker,” Trump once teased Johnson while other lawmakers watched him do it. Trump’s joke refers to Johnson repeatedly going to the president to get potentially defecting Republicans in line behind his agenda, with Johnson himself repeatedly failing to do so.For example, in 2025 Trump reportedly yelled at Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) over the phone until she started crying and walked away, according to what two sources told NOTUS. After she left, Trump continued to rant to the remaining lawmakers who were present for her humiliation.“I have no f—— idea what she just said," Trump told the other members.That incident, according to NOTUS, was merely one of many. Two sources told NOTUS that House members are instructed to check with the White House before proposing legislation. One anonymous House Republican lawmaker told NOTUS that as a result, House Speaker Johnson and the rest of that body’s leaders have failed in their basic legislative duties.This is "a total shirking of responsibilities to the White House,” the source told NOTUS. “Everything has to be preordained and pre-blessed, and there’s very little that we’re able to have our own will on. We should be empowered to pass our own priorities, not just follow what the mandate of the day is.”
President Trump says the United States is “very close” to reaching a deal with Iran that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and permanently block Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The president is also signaling confidence that the conflict will not become another endless war. Meanwhile, Trump is expected to attend the Knicks’ first...
Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime executive assistant Lesley Groff is expected to testify before the House Oversight Committee on June 9 as part of its ongoing investigation into the disgraced financier.
Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" replacement — media mogul and standup comic Byron Allen — appeared to shake off a massive ratings drop after CBS replaced the longtime host, according to a Los Angeles Times interview.Viewership to the show dropped by 85 percent since Colbert left, The Daily Beast reported. Allen worked out a $15 million "time-buy model" deal with CBS and his company Allen Media Group, according to The Times. He pays CBS, and keeps advertising revenue.But the first viewership figures saw the floor drop out of viewership for the time spot."The final episode of The Late Show attracted 6.7 million viewers — its highest-ever weeknight viewership — and the next night at 11:35 pm, Allen’s Comics Unleashed garnered just 995,000 viewers. On June 1, the first day when rival late-night hosts aired new episodes following Colbert’s exit, Comics Unleashed dropped to only 628,000 viewers," The Daily Beast reported.Critics called it a "ratings disaster," according to The Times."But Allen, typically, was not fazed, saying his show bested the competition in key markets and was more comparable with the same time period last May before Colbert’s post-cancellation victory lap," The Times reported.He compared the viewership to the numbers Colbert landed this time last year, and said he wasn't worried. He argued the network had made a savings maneuver, estimating that the previous "programming was costing the network more than $200 million.""CBS has won big-time because they have zero production costs and now they are saving $55 million a year," Allen told The Times.
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy World Oceans Day, readers! 🌊🐳 The war in the Middle East escalated over the weekend, with Iran and Israel exchanging fire and hindering President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the conflict. 🇺🇲🇮🇷 International and domestic oil prices this morning responded to the attacks. 🛢️ Meanwhile, as the war […]
Border Czar Tom Homan blasted leftists who have likened Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Nazis, dangerously incendiary rhetoric that is putting their lives in danger. […]