The House and Senate GOP have just picked their leaders for life in the minority — and the choices tell you everything about what kind of fight Republicans plan to run next year. Representative Jim Jordan won the House conference vote by a clear margin, and Senator John Thune was quietly re‑installed as Senate leader More

The Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced this week that a six‑month wiretap investigation led to the arrests of four people — including a retired NYPD Emergency Service Unit detective — accused of running a drug pipeline from Upper Manhattan into Staten Island. The case highlights both the danger of fentanyl and the ugly More

The Senate Republican Conference just held the kind of closed‑door meeting Washington loves: loud on drama, light on drama‑solving. Senate Majority Leader John Thune was reelected to lead the GOP into the minority after a bruising midterm. The vote settled a question the party should have answered with action long before the ballots were counted: More

President Nayib Bukele did something bold and messy: he asked users on X to point out the exact location of a suspected gang leader’s home in Haiti — and then posted video saying Salvadoran forces struck and “destroyed” that house and the 400 Mawozo gang’s headquarters. It reads like politics by livestream and vigilante justice More

A United Airlines flight from Newark to New Orleans set off an in‑flight hijack alert this week after crew members reported a passenger disturbance, the plane squawked the 7500 code for unlawful interference, and local deputies arrested a man after the aircraft landed. The flight landed safely and authorities met the jet, but the incident More

Earlier this week in Chengdu, Chinese and U.S. military representatives held a formal handover of human remains that Chinese teams say are from American airmen who went missing while flying the dangerous World War II “Hump” supply route. The box reportedly contained eight bone fragments pulled from a high Himalayan glacier; U.S. experts from the More