A Chicago judge will hear testimony in a lawsuit filed by an Illinois voter that alleges Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz should not be allowed to run for president, USA Today reports.
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“The director of the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, the National Security Agency, was fired Thursday,“ the Washington Post reports. “Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command,…
“In the final run-up to President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff announcement, aides were left with a difficult task,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “They were struggling to square the president’s…
“South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed from office Friday, when the country’s Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach him over his December effort to impose martial…
“In a rare appearance after her loss in November’s presidential election, former Vice President and potential gubernatorial candidate Kamala Harris on Thursday decried the rollback of fundamental rights under President…
“Faced with President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, Wall Street traders voted with their dollars Thursday, selling off trillions in stock market value amid growing fears of inflation and recession,”…
“The eighty-year period when the United States embraced the mantle of global economic leadership—when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange…
Jonathan Last: “We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world…
Philip Elliot: “Republicans at the Capitol understand this is going to hurt not just Americans, but their own political futures. It’s why, in a low-key fever, they’re freaking out.” “But…
President Trump took questions from reporters on Air Force One: REPORTER: When’s the last time you spoke with President Xi? TRUMP: I speak to him. Doesn’t matter when. Save to…
“White House officials are advising GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill to focus on the long-term impact of President Donald Trump’s sweeping new global tariffs — without providing much guidance on…
NOTUS: “D.C.’s chief judge on Thursday indicated he may find that the Trump administration rushed Venezuelans onto planes bound for a Salvadoran prison last month in a way meant specifically…
“Republicans are making progress toward a tax deal that can stop increases at the end of year and even deliver on some of President Donald Trump’s proposed new tax cuts,”…
On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services this week, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News some programs would soon be…
Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed on Thursday to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on a 53-45 vote that split the U.S. Senate along party lines with Republicans…
A London judge ruled Donald Trump must pay $821,500 in legal fees to a private investigations firm he sued over a dossier which alleged ties between his 2016 election campaign…
“White House officials have circulated internal talking points telling surrogates that President Donald Trump’s new global tariff regime should not be characterized as a starting point for negotiations,” the Washington…
“I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with Donald Trump. The first to negotiate will win — the last will absolutely lose….
The Verge finds the tariff calculations unveiled by President Trump in the Rose Garden yesterday — which make little sense — are “an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots…
“The president campaigned on a promise to bring down grocery prices, but the new tariffs announced Wednesday will do the opposite for many staple foods,” Axios reports. “The groceries and…
“The Pentagon’s acting inspector general announced Thursday that he would review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to convey plans for a military strike against Houthi…
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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