Don Lemon sees no reason he can’t someday be elected to serve as the President of the United States.

The former CNN host told “Pod Save America” host Alex Wagner he’d consider seeking public office — maybe even the nation’s highest office — in the right situation. Lemon said that’s a question he often encounters.

On the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday issued a memo ordering that the remaining Department of Homeland Security employees be paid during a record-long partial government shutdown affecting the agency.

“I hereby direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to use...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is singling out the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority as a cautionary tale about Democratic mismanagement of publicly funded programs, using it to justify proposed cuts to homeless assistance services across the country.

Trump’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year, released Friday, asks ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled a nearly $2.2 trillion spending request for fiscal 2027 on Friday that features an enormous defense boost, posing a major challenge to GOP leaders as they seek an election-year spending deal with Democrats.

National security spending would soar to $1.5 trillion in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1...Read more

Victims of the January 2025 wildfires unhappy with how insurers have handled their claims have filed lawsuits, protested and complained to local and state officials.

This week, they got support from an unexpected ally: President Trump.

"It was brought to my attention that the Insurance Companies, in particular, State Farm, have been absolutely...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is requesting $152 million from Congress to begin“rebuilding” the prison on Alcatraz Island for operational use, though his administration appears to have taken few steps toward advancing the project.

The request, in the president’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2027, resurrects Trump’s attention...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked Congress to enact a $2.2 trillion budget for discretionary programs, seeking a massive increase in defense spending, while also renewing his push for steep cuts to domestic agencies.

The 2027 budget proposal released Friday requests $1.5 trillion for defense, a significant increase over the $1 ...Read more

Despite the wave of enthusiasm of this week’s moonshot launch of Artemis II, President Donald Trump once again wants to chop billions of dollars from the agency, including its science missions, according to documents released Friday by NASA.

Trump last year sought to reduce NASA’s budget by about $6 billion, and his proposed budget for ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California filed its 66th lawsuit against President Donald Trump since he took office 62 weeks ago, this time challenging his executive order to create lists of federal voters to curtail mail-in voting.

On Tuesday, Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security to create lists of eligible voters in every state and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled on Friday a nearly $2.2 trillion discretionary spending request for the coming fiscal year, a nearly 21% increase over the current year’s level because of a dramatic proposed boost in defense funding.

The election-year spending blueprint doubles down on an administration drive to pump up the ...Read more

NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman dramatically outpaced challenger Brad Lander in the first-quarter fundraising race for their congressional Democratic primary dogfight.

Goldman, a two-term incumbent, says he raked in $2.2 million in the first three months of the year, while Lander, the progressive former controller and mayoral candidate, ...Read more

President Donald Trump gave his first prime-time address to the nation laying out his goals in the war on Iran more than a month into the conflict. Better late then never, we suppose.

Alas, we don’t have any clearer idea of how the president intends to achieve those goals than we did before the speech.

Will we allow Iran to keep its weapons-...Read more

In an 8-1 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held on March 31, 2026, that a Colorado law prohibiting licensed counselors from performing “conversion therapy” on minors was likely unconstitutional as applied to talk therapy. Justice Elena Kagan filed a separate concurrence, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. ...Read more

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, 2026, only 14 months after she was sworn into office, making her time in the role the shortest in 60 years.

While much recent attention has focused on Trump’s decision to fire Bondi, there has been less attention on what the attorney general actually does, or what ...Read more

Just a few months after opening, the controversial Trump Truth Store in Crystal Lake, Illinois, has temporarily shut down, citing a drop in sales amid the ongoing Iran war.

In a notice to customers, business owner Lisa Fleischmann posted on Facebook on March 26 that the MAGA-themed shop “is closed until further notice.”

“I am not even ...Read more

There are moments when a president must project resolve. The American people expect it. Adversaries watch for it. Allies depend on it. But resolve without clarity is not leadership; it is risk.

President Donald Trump’s recent address on Iran was forceful in tone, but thin in substance. It leaned heavily on certainty and dominance yet offered ...Read more

Among the few things that Americans agree on these days is that housing is too expensive. With a shortfall of at least 3.7 million homes, the obvious solution is to build more. Regrettably, a once-promising effort in Congress intended to do just that now seems to be falling apart — a victim of populist politics gone awry.

Over the past two ...Read more

Two members of Florida’s congressional delegation — one Democrat, U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Miramar and one Republican, Cory Mills of New Smyrna Beach — have become embarrassments to this state, their constituents, their parties and Congress itself. To give all voters the chance to find someone who can do the job unhindered ...Read more

After President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, 2026, news reports suggested that she fell from grace, not for being too independent, but for not being effective enough at defending him and prosecuting his political enemies.

As The New York Times reported the previous day, Trump was disappointed with “Ms. ...Read more