James Talarico spent part of 2023 on the floor of the Texas House telling reporters that Texas "produce[s] some of the best drag queens in the nation." Now he's running for U.S. Senate, and Republicans aren't letting him forget it.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte arrived in Ankara on Monday with a pointed message for alliance members: present "clear, concrete and credible plans" to meet defense spending targets or face pressure from Washington.
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, once considered a star of the Democratic Party's next generation, suspended her U.S. Senate campaign on Sunday, abruptly exiting a race that national Democrats had already decided for her.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has called for a "COVID reckoning" after former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci provided millions of taxpayer dollars to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.
A Chinese military doctor flagged by U.S. health officials in early 2020 went on to file one of the first COVID-19 vaccine patents just weeks later, raising serious questions about what American bureaucrats knew and when they knew it.
As the United States celebrated 250 years of independence over the weekend, allied countries across the world similarly recognized the nation's anniversary.
