President Trump has said he wants American control of the canal, putting the longtime ports operator, CK Hutchison, in the cross-hairs of the U.S.-China trade conflict.
Democrats and the White House agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they negotiate restrictions on an immigration crackdown. Senators said they hoped to vote on the deal on Friday.
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Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) said Thursday he will force a vote next week to expel Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) from Congress over allegations of campaign finance violations and other financial misconduct. Why it matters: The announcement comes after a House Ethics investigative subcommittee said it found "substantial evidence" to support the criminal charges Cherfilus-McCormick is facing, which she denies. - The panel released a 59-page report Thursday citing "substantial evidence of conduct consistent with the allegations" in the indictment charging her, "as well as more extensive misconduct." - Cherfilus-McCormick said in a statement responding to the report: "I reject these allegations and remain confident the full facts…
Spurred by government policies and the global A.I. boom, the market’s value has jumped by hundreds of billions of dollars. Individual investors have piled in.
President Trump is set to announce his choice to replace Jerome H. Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, saying it is someone “known to everybody in the financial world.”
The Texan senator seems ready to risk a counterrevolution within the GOP. The post Will Ted Cruz Go Anti-Trump in 2028? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Will Ted Cruz Go Anti-Trump in 2028? The Texan senator seems ready to risk a counterrevolution within the GOP. President Donald Trump suggested this week that he may put Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court. It was not meant as a compliment, as he explained how it would be easy to get the Texas senator confirmed. “The Democrats will vote for him because they want to get him the hell out and the Republicans will vote for him because they want to get him the hell out, too,” Trump said at a press conference attended by Cruz and many other GOP lawmakers. The remark was probably meant to needle Cruz. Axios reported over the weekend that the senator attacked the president and vice president in comments to donors. Cruz is building…Open
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Regime change would still be a catastrophe, and it’s hard to see what the point of anything else is. The post How Many Times Do I Have to Write This Column About Iran? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs How Many Times Do I Have to Write This Column About Iran? Regime change would still be a catastrophe, and it’s hard to see what the point of anything else is. A lot of smoke is going up around the Persian Gulf—metaphorical for now. In response to the Islamic Republic’s brutal crackdown on protests earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced that he’d let slip the dogs of war if the regime started shooting people in the streets. The usual sort of excitement ensued among the usual suspects. The U.S. is continuing to sanction the bejeebus out of Iran—per Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, “Make Iran Broke Again”—and, for the time being, it seems as if all is quiet on the Greenlandic and Venezuelan…Open
It is too late to execute a full reextension of the nuclear arms control agreement, but the U.S. can take steps toward stability with Russia. The post Salvaging a New START appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Salvaging a New START It is too late to execute a full reextension of the nuclear arms control agreement, but the U.S. can take steps toward stability with Russia. On February 5, 2026, the New START treaty, the last nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, will expire. Many will be glad to see it go, especially after Russia suspended participation in the treaty’s data-sharing and inspection mechanisms (but did not withdraw) in 2023. But the treaty’s end brings few benefits and lots of risks to the United States, especially as Washington tries to stabilize relations with rivals like Russia and China. It’s probably too late to prevent the agreement’s demise, but the Trump administration…Open
The Senate’s race to avert a shutdown hit the skids late Thursday night as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) placed a hold on the government funding package, forcing leaders to punt the vote. Senators had been hoping to vote on the so-called minibus after leaders struck a deal earlier in the day and President Trump endorsed [...]
Japan tracked four Chinese warships in a strait near Okinawa, a move that followed U.S.-Philippine military drills near a contested South China Sea atoll.