What Trump wants out of the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

Virginia Democrats won a strikingly narrow victory in last week’s snap election referendum, altering the commonwealth’s constitution by reversing a supermajority-supported ban on partisan gerrymandering. The outcome was opposed by almost 49% of statewide voters, who were subjected to an unremitting and lavishly funded “yes” propaganda campaign that even NPR admitted had sown widespread confusion. […]

The president struck a conciliatory tone Saturday night, but administration officials later accused journalists and Democrats of fueling divisive rhetoric.

Four Democratic senators are investigating accusations that the Pentagon was unprepared for an Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Kuwait that killed six service members.  Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) on Sunday wrote a letter to War Secretary Pete Hegseth suggesting that Washington failed “to take […]

A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are pushing a bill to fund the construction of a secure 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House and say the project is essential to national security after a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday.  Graham and his allies say the...