12 Democrats vote against defense bill in rare committee split

With his military unable to effectively penetrate Ukrainian defensive lines and Ukraine increasingly able to strike deep inside Russia, President Vladimir Putin will soon escalate his threats to the West. Will President Donald Trump deter him? Or will the leader of the free world blink? There’s no question that Kremlin escalation is coming. Indeed, it’s […]

President Trump called Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) “a loser” on Friday when asked about the lawmaker’s threat to not support Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination unless Blanche condemns the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol. “Sen. Tillis is a loser. He didn’t run because I wouldn’t support him,” Trump told reporters on Air Force...

Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson ripped the New York Times over its Thursday report detailing disturbing accounts from several of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriends. “There is a sense of confusion and betrayal right now about the nature of this report, what was included and what was not,” Benson said on Fox News’s America’s […]

The Trump administration on Friday auctioned off rights to drill in a pristine wildlife refuge in Alaska, but the lease sale attracted just two bidders on a few tracts of land. Of the approximately 60 tracts of land opened up for leasing by the Trump administration, just five received bids. Only HEX Energy and the...