President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a total blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, declaring the Nicolás Maduro regime a foreign terrorist organization and accusing it of using stolen U.S. assets to finance terrorism, trafficking and other criminal activity. ‘Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,’ Trump said on ...
A federal judge on Tuesday said he was ‘inclined to deny’ a bid to force the Trump administration to halt construction of the White House ballroom but warned officials not to undertake any irreversible work before a January hearing that could still stop the project. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said he will hold another hearing during the second week ...
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is being sued by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for tens of billions of dollars in damages for a lawsuit he filed against the country during his time as Missouri’s attorney general. Schmitt is being sued by the People’s Government of Wuhan Municipality, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of ...
There’s a year-end rush in all aspects of life. Businesses try to run up profits in December. Supervisors want to finish employee reviews. Professors must grade exams. Congress is no different. There’s always a race to the finish line in December on Capitol Hill. This year’s adventure is health care. But it’s a practical impossibility that Congress can actually make ...
President Donald Trump isn’t offended by White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’ comments in Vanity Fair describing him as someone with ‘an alcoholic’s personality.’ On Tuesday, Vanity Fair published the first part of a two-part story about Wiles and the second Trump administration — which White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed featured comments that were ‘wildly’ taken out ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham warned that the U.S. mission in Venezuela must end with Nicolás Maduro removed from power, arguing that leaving the embattled leader in place after a major U.S. show of force would be a ‘fatal mistake to our standing in the world.’ ‘If after all this, we still leave this guy in power… that’s the worst possible signal ...
Ian Vásquez Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of human freedom in the world has remained depressed, according to the Human Freedom Index 2025, published today by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute in Canada. The report uses 87 distinct indicators of personal, civil, and economic liberty to measure the level of freedom in ...
Norbert Michel and Ryan Chan-Wei Yesterday, Politico’s “Morning Money” had a great interview with House Financial Services Chair French Hill (R‑AR) discussing, among other upcoming issues, the path forward on crypto and stablecoins. While the stablecoin debate should be settled by now, it’s not behind us yet. Despite the GENIUS Act being passed into law in July and creating the ...
Labour’s flagship Employment Rights Bill has cleared its final parliamentary hurdle and is set to become law before Christmas, marking the most significant expansion of workers’ rights in a generation. The legislation passed its final stage in the House of Lords after Conservative peer Lord Sharpe, the shadow business and trade minister, withdrew a last-minute amendment during parliamentary “ping pong”. ...
Lawyers for the Trump administration and a historic preservation group are slated to appear in court Tuesday afternoon in a bid to halt — at least temporarily — President Donald Trump’s plan to continue building out a $300 million White House ballroom on the site of the now-demolished East Wing. ‘No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of ...