Ex-Sen. Ben Sasse: 'Congress is not wrestling with big or important questions'  

The likelihood of the United States and Iran coming to an agreement to settle the war took another hit over the weekend with President Donald Trump ordering his top diplomats to skip the planned meeting with their Iranian counterparts. Trump announced on Saturday that special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, would […]

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Monday that he will return to the upper chamber this week after taking time off for the death of his daughter, Madison.  The Virginia senator wrote on the social platform X, “As we remember our incredible daughter, Maddy, my family has been deeply touched by the outpouring of support we’ve...

Here’s an important mental exercise: If the shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday had intended to kill journalists instead of the president, what would the media be talking about nonstop for the next 100 years? Everyone knows the answer. But 31-year-old Cole Allen, the suspected would-be assassin, explicitly wrote in his […]

Thirty-four people across 13 states have fallen ill with a strain of salmonella linked with backyard poultry, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials.  Since Jan. 1, 2026, 13 of the infected individuals have been hospitalized, but there have been no reported deaths. According to CDC data, 40% of infected people were under […]