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The Republican-led House of Representatives showed bipartisan defiance by passing a war powers resolution against President Trump’s actions in Iran. With a tight vote of 215-208, this marks the first time the House has okayed such a measure in this political term. This highlights increasing concerns at home about a conflict lasting three months. Americans remember Trump promi...

The controversial move that has raised the levels of controversy in Washington is the appointment of a young man convicted for his involvement in the January 6, 2021 storming of the United States Capitol building by the Pentagon into a counter-terrorism position at the Department of Defense. It is worth noting that the news was published by The Washington Post and immediately...

This marks the first time in decades that the incumbent Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass, will contest in a run-off election as she tries to secure another term in office as Mayor of Los Angeles. This marks the first time in the 1990s that a mayor of Los Angeles is facing a run-off election after serving one term in office. No candidate could manage to garner the majority vote t...

The most recent reports about U.S. President Donald Trump raise once again an old but now more pressing issue about where public service ends and self-interest begins. Under his second-term presidency, Trump reportedly made use o...

The withdrawal of the Trump administration from the proposal of a $1.8 billion fund to prevent the weaponization of technology represents a serious blow to the White House politically and legally, highlighting the internal struggle the president has faced in trying to compensate his allies despite resistance from within his own party. The initiative, which started out as one ...