President Trump oversees landmark Israel-Hamas agreement in Middle East trip, meeting hostage families and addressing the Knesset before Egypt summit. ... Read full Story
Hamas faces deadline to return all hostages to Israel under peace agreement brokered by President Donald Trump following October 7, 2023 attacks. ... Read full Story
Vice President Vance blamed the rescinded layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and “far-left” Senate Democrats, as the government shutdown approaches two weeks. The Trump administration initially laid off more than 1,000 CDC employees on Friday, before reportedly reversing course. “The government shutdown inevitably... ... Read full Story
Opponents of President Trump — from street protesters to elected officeholders — are increasingly turning to a different tactic to try to push back on his agenda: humor and mockery. But there’s nothing light-hearted about their efforts. Instead, the satirical or absurdist pushback is aimed at undercutting Trump’s preferred self-image of strength and instead rendering... ... Read full Story
Former Vice President Kamala Harris said she's unsure whether Americans can trust the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Trump. “I don't know if we can trust what's coming out of the Department of Justice right now,” Harris told MSNBC on Sunday. “And that pains me to say that as someone who spent the majority... ... Read full Story
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Sunday argued the government shutdown is being caused by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) “being petrified of their left flank.” “This shutdown is a direct result of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries being petrified of their left flank and wanting to show... ... Read full Story
Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Abigail Spanberger faces mounting scrutiny over two controversies ahead of Virginia’s election, among them Jay Jones’s violent text scandal. ... Read full Story
Vice President Vance said on Sunday that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) should “suffer some consequences” after President Trump called for the outspoken governor to be jailed for failing to protect federal immigration enforcement. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos noted Trump’s call for Pritzker to be jailed and repeatedly... ... Read full Story
Rep. Jim Himes — the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee — said lawmakers had not been briefed on the administration's legal justifications. ... Read full Story
Former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday supported President Trump getting credit for the deal between Israel and Hamas. “Do you think he deserves credit here?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Sullivan on “State of the Union.” “Of course he does. And I give credit to President Trump, I give credit to [Steve] Witkoff... ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump has launched military strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean, threatening to blow narco-terrorists out of existence. ... Read full Story
President Trump announced on Sunday that Dan Scavino, his deputy chief of staff, will head the White House Presidential Personnel Office. Scavino, a longtime trusted adviser to the president, will replace Sergio Gor, whom Trump is tapping to be ambassador to India. “I am pleased to announce that the great Dan Scavino, in addition to... ... Read full Story
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff now fully supports President Donald Trump and urged him to deploy National Guard troops to San Francisco due to crime concerns. ... Read full Story
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said on Sunday that President Trump “should get a lot of credit” for the deal between Israel and Hamas as the president plans to head to the region. “How much credit does President Trump deserve for this deal?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Kelly on “State of the Union.” “Think he should... ... Read full Story
Vice President Vance said on Sunday that the 20 remaining living hostages should be released from Gaza “any moment now” as the president prepares to travel to the Middle East to welcome them home. “It really should be any moment now, Kristen,” Vance told Kristen Welker in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,”... ... Read full Story
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said on Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are “doing the Lord’s work” as the agency faces criticism over its tactics. “I think the ICE agents are doing the Lord's work. They're doing what the president promised the American people he was going to do when he ran for... ... Read full Story
Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is touting his 'America First' record and experience defeating Democrat Amy McGrath as he runs for Kentucky's open Senate seat in the Republican primary. ... Read full Story
President Trump on Monday is set to address Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, and attend a Middle East peace ceremony in Egypt following a potential deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza. Trump’s Knesset address is set for 11:00 a.m. local time, a little under two hours after he is expected to... ... Read full Story
“Despite the rest of the group arguing with and (mostly) disagreeing with him for half the evening, my colleague stuck to his guns: it would be handy to have robots writing poetry for people. … But at the heart of my colleague’s provocative position was a utopian ideal: of a future in which technology was advanced enough to ‘do everything,’ even write poetry, so that no one needed to work. Yet this position wasn’t convincing either. His utopia sounded more than a little dull, and nobody wants to be bored out of their minds.” — Surekha Davies, Humans: A Monstrous History, 2025
Did you know?
There’s quite literally no place like utopia. In 1516, English humanist Sir Thomas More published a book titled Utopia, which compared social and economic conditions in Europe with those of an ideal society on an imaginary island located off the coast of the Americas. More wanted to imply that the perfect conditions on his fictional island could never really exist, so he called it “Utopia,” a name he created by combining the Greek words ou (“not, no”) and topos (“place”). The earliest generic use of utopia was for an imaginary and indefinitely remote place. The current use of utopia, referring to an ideal place or society, was inspired by More’s description of Utopia’s perfection.