Former Vice President Kamala Harris. Former Vice President Kamala Harris took part in a Zoom call Tuesday evening in which she laid out the Democrats' future political playbook and called for a "no bad idea brainstorm." Harris then kicked off the brainstorm with several ideas that many voters, particularly conservative and traditional liberal Americans, would consider among the worst ideas. Harris, leaning into far leftist rhetoric, called for abolishing the Electoral College

President Trump raising his glass during his address at a state banquet in Beijing. President Donald Trump spoke a state banquet in Beijing on Thursday and near the end of his speech made a toast celebrating what he described as a 'special relationship' between the U.S. and China that goes all the way back to America's founding. Trump is in Beijing for a summit meeting with his Chinese counterpart, president Xi Jinping. During Trump's speech, which lasted about 10 minutes, h

Vice President JD Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Vice President JD Vance announced the federal government is pausing more than a billion dollars in Medicaid funding to the state of California over suspicions of fraud. "California has not taken fraud very seriously," Vance told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., where he announced the funding freeze along with several other measures aimed at r

Spencer Pratt, candidate for L.A. mayor. Former reality TV star-turned political candidate Spencer Pratt has vaulted into second place in the Los Angeles race for mayor, picking up a 12-point bump, a new poll shows. Pratt still trails incumbent mayor Karen Bass by eight points, the new poll from Emerson College, which was conducted May 7-9 and surveyed 1,000 voters, found. Bass leads the field with 30%, followed by Pratt at 22% and Nithya Raman in third with 19%. All three

Chris Cuomo and Michael Rapaport. During an appearance on NewsNation Tuesday evening, actor Michael Rapaport announced that he's planning to run for mayor of New York City in the next election in a bid to oust Zohran Mamdani, who's just a little more than 100 days into his term as mayor. Rapaport made the announcement during an interview with Chris Cuomo, saying, "In terms of the mayor 2029, I am running for mayor of New York City," admitting that it's the type of career piv

Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that the Biden administration could've done more to curb illegal immigration during Joe Biden's lone term as president, and said that "there were areas of disagreement" with Biden on how to approach illegal immigration. Some estimates suggest more than 20 million illegal immigrants surged into the U.S. during Biden's four years as president. Caravans of il

Senator Chris Van Hollen and FBI Director Kash Patel. FBI Director Kash Patel clashed with a U.S. Senator from Maryland on Tuesday during a fiery hearing on Capitol Hill, and Patel ended up turning the tables on the senator who had asked a series of gotcha-type questions. The heated exchange came during a budget hearing in which senators questioned the FBI director, and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen asked a series of probing questions about a recent story published by The Atl

Marco Rubio takes No. 1 spot in new poll of possible 2028 White House candidates. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has opened up a significant lead over Vice President JD Vance and the rest of the potential 2028 field of Republicans who may make a run for the presidency, a new poll has found. Rubio commanded a 45.6% plurality of support, the poll found, with JD Vance placing second, at 29.6%, and Ron DeSantis, the only other Republican to hit double-digit support, with 11.2%. R

A rendering of what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will look like when renovations are complete. Democrats, the media, and advocacy groups have gone into full meltdown in opposition of President Donald Trump's actions to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool ahead of the nation's 250th birthday on July 4, 2026. As was so often the case during the first year of Trump's second term, an advocacy group is attempting to obstruct the renovation of the reflecting pool

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israeli. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's proposed to President Donald Trump to begin incrementally scaling back military aid the U.S. provides Israel with each year, nearly $4 billion, until it's eventually "down to zero." The remark came during a wide-ranging interview on 60 Minutes that aired Sunday night and largely focused on the war with Iran, and Israel's involvement in it. At one point in the conversation, Netan

Donald Trump after being shot in the ear at a campaign event in 2014. A new poll found that about one-quarter of Americans believe the latest assassination attempt against President Trump, at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in late April, was staged, and a misinformation expert cited by The Washington Post blames President Trump for that phenomenon. The poll was commissioned by an organization called NewsGuard, which purports to evaluate the trustworthiness of news or

California Gov. Gavin Newsom. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new initiative last week, meant to capitalize on Mother's Day, in which the Golden State will begin distributing free diapers to parents of newborns this summer. All told, the program will hand out 40 million free diapers at a cost of $20 million to taxpayers, but over Mother's Day weekend the new initiative began drawing heavy criticism. The program, dubbed "Golden State Start," was launched in conjuncti

Former Vice President Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris took aim at the U.S. war with Iran at a political event in Las Vegas on Thursday, using profanity to punctuate her point before breaking into a bout of uncontrollable laughter, and blaming the use of the obscenity on the audience. The former vice president and failed presidential candidate made the remarks at what was billed as a fireside chat, but mostly was a Trump-bashing struggle session that also included significant com

Virginia congressional map. The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday nullified the results of the congressional map redistricting referendum last month, delivering a major blow to Gov. Abigail Spanberger's effort to pick up more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives for Democrats, and ruling that the process by which the measure was brought to voters was unconstitutional. The ruling comes after a county judge issued an injunction the day after the measure narrowly passed wi

Harry Enten. Follow Trump, Republican voters are telling politicians who are in office or running for elected office. That's according to CNN polling guru Harry Enten, who explained Trump's enduring appeal with the Republican base in the wake of Tuesday's primary races in Ohio and Indiana. At least six state senators who opposed Trump on congressional map redistricting in Indiana lost primary elections on Tuesday. In Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, who was backed by Trump, won the GOP

U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made an appearance on a podcast this week and tore into the idea of an entrepreneur earning a billion dollars, tapping into socialist talking points, and unleashing a series of other incendiary remarks. The congresswoman from New York leaned heavily into an increasingly common fetish among Democrats -- trashing the billionaire class -- during an interview on the It's Open with Ilana Gla

Secretary of State Marco Rubio giving Pope Leo a football-shaped paperweight. It's been a busy week for Secretary of State Marco Rubio who on Tuesday handled the White House press briefing, delivering a message about America that was met with widespread praise, and by Thursday had landed in Rome and met with Pope Leo at the Vatican. The meeting between Rubio and the pope comes amid a bit of a feud between Leo, the first-ever American pope, and President Trump over differing v

Former President Barack Obama. Former President Barack Obama has been heavily criticized on social media this week after remarks he made in an interview with Stephen Colbert suggesting President Trump has weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice. Obama, who appeared on CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, is promoting his presidential library, which is set to open next month in Chicago. The interview was wide-ranging, but, unsurprisingly, eventually focused on Obama's im

FBI Director Kash Patel. FBI Director Kash Patel said this week that FBI agents were prevented from joining the investigation into Nancy Guthrie's disappearance in the earliest days of the case. Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, vanished late in the evening on Jan. 31 from her Arizona home, and hasn't been seen since. Patel's remarks came in a podcast interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News. "For four days we were kept out of the investigati

Minnesota House Fraud and Oversight Committee Chair Kristin Robbins and Rep. Ilhan Omar. U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota won't face a subpoena -- at least for now -- after Democrats in the State House voted unanimously against an oversight committee effort to compel the congresswoman to testify after she missed a deadline to provide documents in the committee's fraud investigation. The Minnesota House Fraud and Oversight Committee set May 5 as the deadline for Oma