Politics

At least 17 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, including a 6-year-old boy, as violent crime under Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership continues to plague the city. One man was fatally shot, adding to the grim tally of bloodshed in a city that reported 28 shootings and six deaths just the weekend before.

President Trump suggested that the United States will increase its involvement in the conflict in Gaza because "you have a lot of starving people," he told reporters in Scotland.

President Donald Trump said he was reducing his 50-day deadline on Russia to negotiate a peace agreement to "10 or 12 days."

Sohei Kamiya, leader of Japan’s populist Sanseitō party, has stormed Japan’s political landscape by winning 14 new seats.

Senator Marco Rubio fueled speculation about the 2028 presidential race after being pressed on whether he would consider running.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D‑Ariz.) acknowledged on CNN that the Democratic Party suffers from a severe “messaging problem,” citing national polls.

Stanford University suspends a student-run co-op accused of targeting Jewish students with antisemitic harassment.

Southern states like Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee are leading the nation in reading and math recovery after COVID-19.

After Congress defunded NPR and PBS, liberal donors poured money into the broadcasters, raising questions about media bias.

On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought launched a scathing critique of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), charging that the agency “does nothing more than DEI research.” Vought argued that while the world faced a deadly pandemic, NIH leadership engaged in mismanaged science that helped create risks rather than solving them.