It’s now the Energy and Natural Resources Division, dropping the redundant ‘Environment.’
Less than one week before Americans are set to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, new polling shows American pride has hit a new low nationwide. About one-third of the country identifies as “extremely proud” to be an American, with a 56-percentage-point pride gap between Republicans and Democrats, according […]
The Supreme Court delivered a setback to President Donald Trump, rejecting his attempt to fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, while in a separate case giving him a freer hand to exert control over other hitherto independent federal agencies.
Conservative justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett clashed on Monday in a Supreme Court ruling involving mail-in voting, which was considered a rejection of the Republican Party's attack on mail-in ballots.Coney Barrett wrote the opinion in the 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee that upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to arrive after Election Day. And in a scathing dissent, Alito used her own words to argue against the decision. Fellow conservative justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas joined the dissent."To say that this is not the most likely explanation of States' thought processes would be 'a delicately put understatement,'" Alito wrote.The court ruling was deemed a defeat for Trump and Republicans, who have argued that the method should not be used before the midterm elections in November, according to CNN. Trump has asserted that there is widespread fraud involving mail-in ballots, despite no evidence of these claims.Alito argued that "today’s decision leaves open opportunities for voter fraud that may further undermine Americans’ faith in the integrity of this country’s elections.""It is undeniable that a prohibition on counting late-arriving ballots would provide an additional hurdle for bad actors seeking to stuff ballot boxes when early election results suggest a tight race. The majority incorrectly removes this safeguard from federal law," Alito wrote.
With tensions between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) growing — and the 2026 midterm elections a little over four months away — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida) invited Trump to address Senate Republicans at a lunch held on Wednesday, June 26. Scott is saying that he was trying to promote a healthy dialogue between Trump and Thune, but the Florida senator, according to Politico's Jordain Carney, proposed the lunch "without Majority Leader John Thune's express approval" — and Scott's actions are fueling speculation about his possible motivations."What has become eminently clear in recent weeks is that Scott — after a long career in business, two terms as governor and nearly eight years as senator — just isn't a back-bench kind of guy," Carney reports in Politico. "He has lots of thoughts on how the Senate should be run and a willingness to express them, even if it puts him at odds with Thune's vision. The leader, who trounced Scott in a 2024 conference election, has largely avoided holding doomed votes that would split Republicans and, like many GOP senators, would like nothing more than to get past the months-long intra-party fight over the SAVE America Act, the elections bill pushed by Trump."Scott, according to Carney, "insists that those who see this as a prelude to a leadership challenge" against Thune "have it all wrong."The Florida senator/ex-Florida governor told Politico, "Here's what I don't get. Other people get to put out their position. If I put out mine, then I want to be leader?"But Carney notes that Scott's latest actions are "only his latest attempt to stay in the thick of the action in a body where obscurity can be hard to avoid.""His stint running the GOP Senate campaign arm ahead of the 2022 midterms was controversial and ended with Democrats beating historical headwinds and slightly expanding their bare majority," Carney reports. "He annoyed colleagues with his policy of not intervening in contested Republican primaries and infuriated some of them by promulgating a policy agenda through his personal political operation that they hadn’t agreed to. That did not deter Scott from challenging then-Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after the election that year, garnering only 10 votes of 47. He tried again after McConnell stepped down as leader two years later. Scott won 13 votes in a three-way race, but Thune ultimately prevailed."Carney points out that Thune, unlike McConnell, Scott "doesn't have an openly antagonistic relationship with Scott." And the Senate majority leader avoided criticizing Scott during an interview with Politico.Thune told Politico, "He brings people in that help inform our conversations and discussions about some of the major policy issues. I'm very supportive of what he's doing."
We sent our guy Brandon London to Norway vs. Senegal using public transportation from midtown Manhattan to MetLife Stadium to test just how bad the commute is to get to the World Cup. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/caw1bhrtgeg
The Supreme Court is due to release orders and some of its final opinions on Monday morning, days after delivering wins for the Trump administration in major rulings on immigration. Follow along here for the latest rulings from the court, which should be released shortly after 10 a.m. President Trump said Monday on Truth Social…
A professor of political science weighed in Monday on the latest controversy surrounding President Donald Trump and his family, one that involves allegations of corruption so blatant, the professor said, that a graphic outlining the alleged corruption bore resemblance to “an inbred family tree.”According to an explosive report from The New York Times Sunday, the sons of both Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are expected to profit handsomely from a secretive deal signed off on by Trump last November. As revealed by the Times, the Trump administration approved “as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing” for a small American mining company in an arrangement to secure Kazakhstan’s tungsten reserves, a deal that both Trump and Lutnick’s sons are expected to financially benefit from.Adam Bonica, a professor of political science at Stanford, noted the unprecedented simplicity of the alleged corruption scandal, writing on social media that the graphic created by the Times to illustrate the key players in the arrangement was unlike any similar graphic he’d seen before.“Usually these political corruption maps have complicated plumbing,” he wrote in a social media post on Bluesky, a comment that was flagged by Zeteo on Monday. “You know it’s bad when it’s just a closed loop that looks like an inbred family tree.”Trump’s sons – Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump – took a 20% stake in an entity “related to the Kazakhstan project,” the Times reported, and Lutnick’s sons – Brandon and Kyle Lutnick – helped raise funds for the deal through their investment company Cantor Fitzgerald, something that “typically [nets] Cantor millions of dollars in fees.”Even Pini Althaus, the owner of the aforementioned mining company, Kaz Resources, admitted to the Times that the optics of the arrangement looked "disturbing."“I can see how the optics might be disturbing to some people,” Althaus told the Times.Usually these political corruption maps have complicated plumbing. You know it’s bad when it’s just a closed loop that looks like an inbred family tree.[image or embed]— Adam Bonica (@adambonica.bsky.social) June 28, 2026 at 11:54 AM
JERUSALEM — The United States and Iran will hold new talks on Tuesday in Qatar, President Donald Trump said Monday, after the two sides appeared to step back from a wave of attacks that threatened to derail peace efforts.“IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING.