Politics
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 21 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast f...
Democrats across the Capitol were outraged Thursday at news that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior Pentagon and military leaders to plan 8 pe...
President Donald Trump brought an early end Thursday to the speculation around his favorite for the 2026 Florida governor’s race in a post on Truth Social, e...
The Justice Department now says that President Donald Trump’s clemency for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated crimes that were discovered during FBI searches st...
Donald Trump returned to power exactly one month ago today, and it is hardly possible to overstate the magnitude of the changes he has brought and is seeking...
Elon Musk was hailed as a chainsaw-wielding slasher of the government at his debut at the Conservative Political Action Conference.Appearing on stage in a go...
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia vowed Thursday that he would not be “silenced” after receiving a letter from the Department of Justice demanding he explain rem...
BOSTON — A Thursday night hockey game between the American and Canadian national teams might as well have been played in the Situation Room.The cross-border ...
China supports “the recent consensus” between the U.S. and Russia on the war in Ukraine, said Wang Yi, the country’s foreign minister, amid ong...
The Treasury Department and the White House have reached an agreement that restricts how the Department of Government Efficiency can access sensitive tax dat...
The U.S. housing market was already struggling under the weight of high mortgage rates and a lack of supply. Now, President Donald Trump’s threats to impose ...
Senate Republicans are on track to adopt their budget resolution in the early hours of Friday morning — a bid to show support for a “Plan B” if House GOP law...
A federal judge delivered a stern warning to the Trump administration that it must abide by a court order to unfreeze foreign-aid funding, but he stopped sho...
President Donald Trump said he was thinking about taking over local politics in the District of Columbia, a move that’d reignite controversy about the author...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the former Senate Republican leader who is in large part responsible for helping destroy American democracy, will announce on Th...
OXON HILL, Maryland — When Vice President JD Vance delivered an eviscerating speech in Europe last week that marked a hairpin turn away from decades of Ameri...
A growing number of congressional Republicans are desperately trying to back-channel with White House officials as President Donald Trump’s Department of Gov...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed senior Pentagon officials and military leaders to forge plans that would result in an 8 percent cut to the defens...
Mitch McConnell announced the impending close of his four-decade Senate career Thursday, underscoring a remarkable legacy of turning American government righ...
Ukraine’s allies in Washington say there’s a way for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to rescue his relationship with President Donald Trump, but it hinges on a...
Elon Musk is racing to perfect an AI model, just as teams of his young associates are gaining access to some of the nation’s most sensitive and closely guard...
