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Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he supported delaying House elections in his home state of Louisiana after the Supreme Court invalidated the state’s congressional map Wednesday. “The governor has no choice but to suspend it,” Johnson told reporters. “The court has ruled our map unconstitutional.” He spoke as GOP Gov. Jeff Landry announced that Louisiana could not carry out elections under the current map and would be working “to develop a path forward.” Any new map is likely to threaten the seats of Democratic Reps. Troy Carter and Cleo Fields, who are both Black. The Supreme Court ruling narrowed the…

Pete Hegseth has dismissed US lawmakers’ “quagmire” talk, even as data shows broad opposition to the conflict US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has stated that Americans support the US operation against Iran, a claim that stands at odds with multiple national surveys showing most adults in the nation oppose the conflict.The war, which began with a US-Israeli bombing campaign in February and was initially expected to last several weeks, has dragged on at a cost of $25 billion, leaving more than 1,300 civilians dead and triggering a global energy crunch after the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with…

While many are undergoing a mass awakening of class politics, opposition to the coercive control of statism must remain the central focus of any successful revolution. In recent days conversations about working class struggles and the state of the economy, particularly in regard to the affordability crisis, have been occurring with increasing regularity. This has largely been spurred by the viral reporting of a warehouse fire in Ontario, California in which an employee, identified as 29 year old Chamel Abdulkarim, filmed himself lighting pallets of toilet paper on fire, stating “if you’re not going to pay us enough to live at least pay us…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said that “the insatiable desire for more power is going to require everything.” And “I know the president doesn’t have much affection for wind, either offshore or onshore. Personally, we have wind in West Virginia. If it’s sited properly and can generate the kind of power that we need, I think we should be looking at everything, absolutely.” Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “[W]e’ve seen kind of a push and pull when it comes to alternative energy. Gas and oil prices start to go up, fossil fuels are…

Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) raged over White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointing to the radical left’s violent rhetoric following yet another failed assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. Speaking after the failed attempt on Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner over the weekend, Leavitt told reporters on Monday that we “should not live in a country where such constant fear of political violence permeates our society.” Disagreements, she said, should remain peaceful, and can be resolved through debate, voting, or protests rather than violence. However, some Democrats have only continued to up their rhetoric against…

Speaker Mike Johnson may have squeezed out a pair of legislative wins Wednesday, but his headaches are far from over as the legislative deals made now face snarls in the Senate. After a chaotic, all-day vote series on the House floor, lawmakers approved a budget framework setting up a path to fund immigration enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down for more than two months. They also passed a three-year extension of government spy powers known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Here’s where those measures now stand, as well as the…

The loosely defined initiative will reportedly be pitched to foreign governments by the State Department The US is set to pitch foreign governments on a new initiative for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, with participation explicitly excluding “adversaries” Russia and China, according to media reports.The proposal was outlined in a cable sent on Tuesday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to US embassies, which were instructed to present the plan to host governments. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the cable, with Reuters later confirming its contents.The initiative, known as the Maritime Freedom Construct (MFC), would be jointly managed…

The suspect in the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, London, on Wednesday has been identified as a 45-year-old migrant from Somalia. In what is being treated as a terrorist incident, two men, identified as Shilome Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were stabbed in the Golders Green area of North London. Both suffered injuries, forcing them to be hospitalised; however, both are now said to be in stable condition. In dramatic scenes plastered across social media, police were filmed using tasers and kicks to incapacitate the suspected knifeman after he apparently attempted to stab officers as well and was…

Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central,” network chief media analyst Brian Stelter claimed comedian Jimmy Kimmel had “all the power” in the current fight over his White House Correspondents’ dinner monologue in which he said Melania Trump had the “glow like an expectant widow.” Both the first lady and the president have called on ABC to fire Kimmel. Stelter said, “My indication, you know, Disney is being tight-lipped about this, so on the record, nobody there is saying anything about Kimmel. But my sense talking with sources, making calls overnight, is that Disney is absolutely standing by Kimmel, and you can see that because he was…

Top Republicans are growing increasingly anxious that the Senate, once seen as a lock for the party to hold in the midterms, is at risk of flipping as Democrats continue to hammer President Donald Trump for the cost of living and foreign intervention in Iran. That fear is laid out in a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, from the powerful GOP and Koch-aligned super PAC Americans for Prosperity Action, whose leaders are calling on the GOP to lock in on the cost of living or risk losing power in Washington. “As it stands today, our view is that the…