Donald Trump bashed President Obama as “out of touch” and having “no strategy” against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a new radio ad airing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, The Hill reports.


Donald Trump bashed President Obama as “out of touch” and having “no strategy” against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a new radio ad airing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, The Hill reports.
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Senate Republicans are working to hammer out a version of the tax bill that can pass the House without returning to the negotiating table, NBC News reports. “That means hashing…
Politico: “In one important way, Cuomo’s defeat in Tuesday’s mayoral primary was not an only-in-New York story. For all the local flavors and personal peculiarities of the former governor’s downfall,…
“Now that he’s all but won the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani enters a general election against incumbent Eric Adams, who is eager to keep his…
Playbook: “It’s rare to see the president this rattled by a negative story about his administration. Obviously Trump goes after the media all the time, but it mostly feels performative…
“Senate Republicans are considering delaying a politically explosive Medicaid cut as they look for ways to win over GOP moderate holdouts threatening the massive reconciliation bill,” Punchbowl News reports. “The…
New York Times: “If you scratch below the surface… there are signs that some Republicans are a little spooked, too. They have, after all, just watched a charismatic New Yorker…
“Andrew Cuomo will drop out of the mayor’s race after his humiliating defeat against socialist Zohran Mamdani — as the ex-governor’s donors and backers desert him and weigh whether to…
“President Trump called on Wednesday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to be ‘cancelled immediately’ or for giving him a pardon,” Axios reports. “Trump’s comments in a post…
“President Trump is going to extraordinary lengths to defend his claim that U.S. airstrikes ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear program, determined to cement the operation as a defining victory of his presidency,”…
“President Trump’s exasperation over the Federal Reserve’s take-it-slow approach to cutting interest rates is prompting him to consider accelerating when he will announce his pick to succeed Chair Jerome Powell,…
Jonathan Lemire: “There are, of course, risks to drawing national lessons from a local primary election, particularly one in a city where Democrats make up almost two-thirds of the electorate….
“The Justice Department sued all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland on Tuesday over an order that pauses any deportations under legal challenge in the state for 48 hours,”…
“Sen. Thom Tillis warned his colleagues during a closed-door meeting Wednesday that he would not vote to take up the party’s sweeping domestic policy bill without further clarity on Medicaid…
Andrew Cuomo told CBS News New York that before deciding whether to run in the general election as an independent, he would take a hard look at the voting data…
“It was a reception fit for a king,” Bloomberg reports. “The pillows had been fluffed at The House in the Woods, as the royal palace is known. King Willem-Alexander had…
“Sen. Susan Collins floated a new proposal Wednesday to increase taxes on Americans making more than $100 million a year, the latest indication that Republicans’ work is far from done…
President Trump will hold an event at the White House to pressure GOP holdouts to get behind his “big, beautiful bill” ahead of his July 4 deadline, Axios reports. “The…
President Trump branded Zohran Mamdani “a 100% Communist Lunatic” the day after the New York mayoral hopeful declared victory in the city’s Democratic primary, the Financial Times reports. Said Trump,…
Border czar Tom Homan told the New York Post that he has received so much hate for his positions on immigration that he is unable to live safely with his…
“Scott Brown, a Republican who once represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate, announced his second bid Wednesday for the New Hampshire Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen next…
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