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On Tuesday morning, October 13, 2026, one of the Trump administration’s most high-profile diplomatic appointments came to an abrupt end. White House press secretary Katie Zacharia announced at a briefing that the administration had asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, to step down — and that Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns effective immediately, ending a … Read more
The Trump plan to deport Ukrainians moved from speculation to alarming possibility on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, as explosive new reporting revealed the White House is weighing the revocation of legal protections for Ukrainians who sought sanctuary in the United States after Russia’s full-scale invasion. Citing senior administration officials, Reuters reported that the administration is … Read more
The Keisha Lance Bottoms debate Monday night looked like no Georgia governor’s debate in a generation: one candidate, one empty lectern, and a television audience watching history get made for the wrong reasons. Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms took the stage alone at the Atlanta Press Club’s Loudermilk-Young Debates, held at the Georgia Public Broadcasting studio, … Read more
The Ken Paxton Dubai fugitives story has become the latest — and potentially most damaging — controversy to hit the Texas attorney general’s U.S. Senate campaign. According to explosive new reporting from The Wall Street Journal published Monday evening, October 12, 2026, Paxton rang in 2025 with a luxury New Year’s Eve celebration in Dubai … Read more
The Roger Marshall cookie bill saga began with a Facebook post and ended with a $1,300 receipt. Republican Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas finally paid off a six-year-old bakery debt this weekend — nearly double the original invoice — after the bakery’s owner publicly shamed his campaign for stiffing her small business back in 2020. … Read more
A federal judge blocks taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump’s agenda, ordering the administration to pull the controversial spots off the air Sunday evening in a sharp rebuke of one of the most unusual government ad campaigns in modern American history. The judge blocks taxpayer-funded ads ruling marks a rare judicial intervention into government advertising. … Read more
In the most sweeping move yet of its H-1B visa crackdown, the Trump administration announced on October 8, 2026, that Microsoft, Adobe, and six major IT outsourcing firms are barred from the federal program that lets employers sponsor foreign workers for green cards. The suspension, unveiled by Vice President JD Vance at a White House … Read more
The US sanctions ICC decision marks a dramatic escalation in America’s long-running fight with the International Criminal Court. On Friday, October 9, 2026, the Treasury Department placed the entire court on its sanctions list, making the Hague-based tribunal a sanctioned entity under American law and threatening to cut off its access to the U.S. financial … Read more
The midterm elections 2026 are shaping up to be among the most consequential in modern American history. With control of Congress hanging in the balance in the midterm elections 2026, voters focused on kitchen-table economics, and the nation's political direction at a crossroads, understanding what is at stake has never been more important. This guide … Read more
President Donald Trump has ignited one of the fiercest political controversies of his second term with the Trump Russia diesel deal — a major diesel supply agreement with Russia — a deal that has drawn furious condemnation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, divided Republicans, and raised profound questions about America’s energy strategy and foreign policy. … Read more