Violent crime fell dramatically in 2025, in what experts expect to be the year with the sharpest drop in homicides in recorded history. The decline, detailed in two recent reports of major U.S. cities, follows a trend that began in 2022, after the COVID-19 pandemic saw a
For over a decade, many centrist pundits have reflexively dismissed resistance liberals. We were considered, if we were considered at all, through ugly dismissive stereotypes. Talked to, when talked to at all, with a self-satisfied condescension. It was core to the centrists’
Republicans want to identify voters. Democrats want to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Can they both get what they say they want? That’s the question before the Senate as dual-track negotiations continue over funding the Department of Homeland
The 2028 Democratic primary may be a year off, but many of the would-be candidates have already begun a soft launch with voters. Potential candidates such as Govs. Gavin Newsom of California and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania are turning to newly penned books and late-night
The Trump White House wants tech companies to publicly commit to ensuring that their data centers won’t raise electricity prices, stress local water supplies, or complicate grid reliability, Politico reported last week. This kind of voluntary compact is mostly useless, of
There’s no end in sight for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown as both sides point fingers while seemingly moving no closer to a resolution. The Senate left town on Thursday after Democrats decided against supporting a stopgap spending bill over concerns that
President Donald Trump is on the fence about whether he will be accepted into heaven. At the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month, he said that he may not “qualify,” before clarifying that he was joking and he “probably should make it.” Despite this uncertainty about
T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 17 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Now that Donald Trump
Celebrated civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday, his family said in a statement, after battling the neurodegenerative disorder Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP). He was 84 years old. "Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went full North Korea cult propagandist on Fox News, gushing that the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis has been a “resounding success.” N ever mind that two Americans were murdered, violent civil conflict has reigned, and Trump’s
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Monday said President Trump was at fault for the Potomac waste spill, which now appears to be the largest in U.S. history, following scrutiny from the White House leader. "The President has his facts wrong—again. Since the last century, the
President Trump on Monday said the United States and Cuba are talking as the island faces crippling circumstances in the midst of a White House-imposed oil blockade. “Cuba is right now a failed nation, and they don't even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take off. They're
President Trump on Monday slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for what she said at the Munich Security Conference in Germany after the New York lawmaker was asked a series of questions on foreign policy. “I watched AOC answering questions in Munich. This was not a
Tom Pritzker resigned as executive chair of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation on Monday, citing his association with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as reason for the departure. Files released by the Justice Department show Pritzker was in close contact with Epstein in
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story RFK Jr. targets ultra-processed foods 'loophole' In a new "60 Minutes” interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted long-standing exemptions allowing the food
A new analysis shows that enforcement agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local and state law enforcement agencies have increased by more than 900 percent during President Trump’s first term. The analysis, released Monday by criminal justice reform
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) appearance at the Munich Security Conference has drawn a mixed response from members of her own party, underscoring a potential vulnerability of hers amid speculation she could mount a presidential run in the future. The New York
Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) attorney warned the Department of Justice not to pursue a second indictment against the Arizona lawmaker, describing any efforts to do so as a “remarkable abuse of power.” A Friday letter from Kelly’s attorney, Paul Fishman, urges Attorney General
Strained ties between the U.S. and Europe took center stage at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, as President Trump forces both sides of the transatlantic alliance to face the consequences of America’s growing belligerence on the world stage. The annual
Presented by Panasonic {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Potomac cleanup ongoing as Trump casts blame Nearly a month after a wastewater spill into the Potomac River began, recovery efforts are ongoing. © Cliff Owen, Associated Press The spillage,
The federal government is being sued by civil rights organizations to protect voter data seized by the FBI in a raid at a Fulton County, Georgia, elections building last month. The NAACP, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Georgia Coalition of the People’s
President Trump is blaming Maryland Governor Wes Moore for sewage pollution in the Potomac River, something Moore has no control over. “There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local Democrat Leaders,
Three people are dead, including the suspect, and three others are in critical condition after a shooting at a Rhode Island ice skating rink Monday afternoon.
Donald Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans or make fully autonomous weapons that the administration can use however it likes. A senior Trump administration
President Trump on Monday blamed local and state officials in Washington, D.C., and Maryland for the wastewater spill into the Potomac River and directed federal authorities to assist in recovery efforts. Trump wrote on Truth Social that the spillage, which stemmed from a
President Trump on Monday slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for signing a memorandum of understanding with the United Kingdom to address climate change. “The U.K.’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum,” Trump told Politico, referring to the
Comedian Bill Maher said that President Trump, with whom he has had a contentious relationship, is “yelling at” him during their texts. “You hear from him sometimes afterwards, right?” CNN’s Elex Michaelson asked Maher about the president in an interview released Saturday, with
A federal judge ordered the National Park Service to restore exhibits about slaves who lived at the nation’s one-time executive mansion in Philadelphia, agreeing with the city that the Trump administration likely unlawfully removed the displays. U.S. District Judge Cynthia
Former President George W. Bush won’t defy the “code of silence” that prevents ex-U.S. leaders from publicly chastising their successors, but he’s apparently not opposed to throwing shade. In a Presidents’ Day essay published Monday by the pro-democracy institution More
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sparred with Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka on Monday at the Munich Security Conference over their views on President Trump's policies. Clinton railed against Trump's betrayal of traditional Western values and institutions,
Nearly a month after a wastewater spill into the Potomac River began, recovery efforts are ongoing. The spillage, which resulted from a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line collapsing last month, resulted in an overflow of roughly 243 million gallons of wastewater as
A small-town Kansas mayor is in trouble for voting illegally as a noncitizen—but he has the support of his town. Joe Ceballos was recently reelected mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, by a comfortable 101-20 margin. But just hours before the results came in, Ceballos, a legal
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview aired Sunday that he will be looking into the safety of ultra-processed foods, claiming the current industry-led standards are not enough. Appearing on CBS News's "60 Minutes," Kennedy told
President Trump said he did not raise the prospect of renaming New York’s Penn Station as “Trump Station,” pushing back on media reports that he offered to unfreeze billions in federal funds in exchange for the name change. In a post Monday on his Truth Social platform, the
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday went after President Trump over the removal of a pride flag at New York City's Stonewall National Monument, where the modern pro-LGBTQ movement started. “This sacred ground is so important, and in 1969, as everybody knows,
A judge ordered Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Monday to restore a slavery-related exhibit at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. Burgum ordered the National Park Service last month to remove the Philadelphia exhibit at the former
yes, this interview was about aliens but it was also about accountability. About governing in reality, not ideology. About understanding that voters can care about human dignity and public order at the same time.
Ryan Routh, the man accused of plotting to kill President Trump as he golfed in south Florida during his 2024 presidential campaign, is challenging his life sentence. Routh's attorney filed a notice with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit signaling that he intends
The Pentagon, along with the Department of Energy, on Sunday airlifted a small nuclear reactor, the first such transportation as the Trump administration looks to quickly deploy nuclear power across the U.S. The agencies moved the reactor in partnership with Valar Atomics,
We learned on Friday that four of those six names uttered by Rep. Ro Khanna on the House floor last week — the names of alleged Epstein co-conspirators whom Rep. Thomas Massie said were “likely incriminated” — are just four random people. They have nothing whatsoever to do with
The Pentagon is reviewing its relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic over the terms of use of its AI model, which was used by the U.S. military during last month’s operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. “The Department of War’s
Bari Weiss’s variant of CBS News has opted to keep Peter Attia on as a network contributor, despite his recently revealed ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Attia was named as an on-air contributor in January—one of 19 that Weiss said she was “so excited” to
Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon once called Jeffrey Epstein “God” during a text message exchange, newly released government files reveal. In May 2018, the two men were having a discussion about currency trading, in which Bannon praised Epstein’s financial acumen.
Worse, the Trump administration is relying on a single, highly inexperienced team to oversee three of these negotiations.
President Trump said Monday he would direct the Justice Department to seek the death penalty for kidnappers of Nancy Guthrie if the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie is found dead. In a brief phone interview with the New York Post, the president said
Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to engage with growing calls to abolish ICE, even as the agency is in the nadir of its popularity. The Left Hook podcast host Wajahat Ali read Jeffries a list of facts when they appeared together Friday on The Joy
Presidents' Day is a reminder of the importance of representation and the power of Congress to act as a check on the executive branch, and to ensure the faithful execution of laws.
Donald Trump’s White House is posting about President’s Day in the creepiest way possible. In honor of the holiday, the White House Monday posted a menacing picture of Trump accompanied by the quote: “I was the hunted, and now I’m the hunter.” That particular cliche comes from
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said Monday it was formally notified by the FBI that the bureau will not share any information about its investigation into the death of Alex Pretti. “The FBI formally notified the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Iranian naval forces began military exercises Monday in the strategic waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, the day before a second round of talks with the United States for a nuclear deal amid heightened tensions. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's naval drills are dubbed