A Georgia judge lost her reelection, but Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is appointing her to the bench again anyway.The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported on Friday that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Paige Reese Whitaker, who was voted out last month, has now been nominated to the Georgia Court of Appe…
Although the United States has been at war with Iran since late February, U.S. President Donald Trump has so far favored airstrikes and avoided a ground war. But early Friday afternoon, CNN’s Zachary Cohen reported that Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had “made a secret, rushe…
Prominent conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson has a new label for President Donald Trump: “clown.”On his Substack newsletter, Erickson slams the president over his approach to the Iran war, for which, he notes, Trump has at least 39 times in the last 65 days “declared the United States and I…
President Donald Trump’s administration has dropped a new tranche of government materials related to UFOs, and as one prominent GOP pollster pointed out, the timing of the release appears to have given the game away about what they are attempting to distract from.On Friday, controversial Trump senio…
The Supreme Court has left a trail of legal “wreckage” over the course of its last few terms, but according to one legal scholar writing for The Hill, a “fundamental” fix to get them back in line will be making them “fear” again.Paul M. Collins Jr. is a professor of Legal Studies and Political Scien…
This Sunday, June 14, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump will turn 80. Some of Trump’s critics find it ironic that he is about to become an octogenarian in light of how badly he mocked former President Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” but according to medical experts interviewed by The Independent, Trump’s…
The UFC fight President Donald Trump is hosting at the White House has caused no shortage of controversy and chaos, and on Thursday, it added a new headache to the affair: travel disruption, specifically for a bipartisan congressional delegation.According to reporting from Politico on Friday morning…
President Donald Trump’s rash decision-making caused a key bill to implode this week, and according to an ex-NSA official who spoke with The Hill, it has left the U.S. in a “pretty dangerous place” at a terrible time.With Trump’s urging, Congress has been working for months on a long-term extension …
President Donald Trump is not only underwater with Democrats and Independents, but now he’s losing young Republicans. CNN data analyst Harry Enten revealed that when it comes to the Iran war and foreign policy in general, Trump has lost his own base. “Trump [has a] historically strong performance wi…
President Donald Trump’s poll numbers are so bad that Republicans are facing one of the toughest elections in years. But outside of those poll numbers, Republicans face a deeper problem than the president’s coattails: a president who desperately needs public credit for every success and won’t let th…