President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday gave his assent to the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (Conversion) (Repeal) Bill, 2026, fulfilling all necessary legal requirements for the national carrier’s privatisation.
The original bill, which now stands repealed, was passed in January 2016, and sought to convert the national flag carrier into a public limited company.
Confirming the…
The division of the Department of Justice that was supposed to have handled President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS—and the subsequent settlement that created a slush fund for his allies—claims to have no communication records related to it.
Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, a progressive watchdog organization, filed a Freedom of Information request with the DOJ, and in…
_The Housemaid 2_ is officially coming, and Paul Anthony Kelly has joined the A-list cast. Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried wowed viewers in their new BookTok thriller _The Housemaid_ , based on Freida McFadden's book of the same name. Lionsgate will be adapting the second book, _The Housemaid's Secret_ , for the sequel film.
And while it looks like Amanda's character Nina won't play a…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament is projected to break every conceivable record: It will likely be the most-watched sporting event _ever_ —bringing in an estimated five million visitors to 16 host cities across Canada, Mexico, and the United States, atop a global viewership of six billion throughout the course of competition; more than one billion viewers are projected to watch the final match…
The Foreign Office on Thursday warned that any deliberate attempt to block water essential to Pakistan’s survival and development would have “far-reaching consequences”.
“Any such act would be treated with utmost seriousness and could possibly amount to an act of war under Article 51 of the UN Charter,” said FO spokesperson Tahir Andrabi during a weekly media briefing while responding to a…
The FBI arrested eight “college-aged adults” who connected to pro-Palestinian advocacy on the University of Michigan’s campus on Wednesday morning.
FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that the group of arrestees, aged 21-28, “engaged in a coordinated campaign of violent, criminal acts,” including threatening notes, spray painting “Intifada” and “Free Palestine” on people’s homes, breaking windows,…
Trump is threatening a military intervention, but there are no guarantees a democratic transition will take place
The U.S. annual inflation rate is the highest it’s been in three years—a clear consequence of President Trump’s widely unpopular very expensive war on Iran, which drags on even as he constantly claims that he’s close to a deal.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday that the consumer price index rose 0.5 percent last month, with energy costs accounting for 60 percent of that…
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistants testified before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday and claimed to know nothing about the billionaire sex offender’s crimes.
Lesley Groff told members of Congress that she believed the massage appointments she made for Epstein were for massage therapists and not the women and girls he was exploiting, CNN reports. She called Epstein a master manipulator…
President Trump’s immigration czar, Tom Homan, is pledging a rapid surge of immigration agents in New York City.
Homan told Fox News Monday that he is reviewing plans to rapidly increase ICE activity in the city, deploying “more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen,” claiming that he promised New York Governor Kathy Hochul to boost ICE’s presence in New York if the state passed any bills preventing…
President Donald Trump blew up his party’s own Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, renewal in order to install yet another wildly inexperienced MAGA loyalist.
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has been planning since April to pass a long-term extension of FISA Section 702, which is intended to shield U.S. citizens from the country’s warrantless surveillance program overseas.
The…
The Department of Housing and Urban Development quietly released its annual homelessness report on Friday afternoon, 16 months after volunteers around the country carried out the 2025 homeless count. The news wasn’t all bad, in fact the data showed a small improvement overall. But these marginal gains elicited an odd response from the Trump administration, which opted to use the report as a…
Israel and Iran traded fire on Monday, seriously testing a fragile truce and threatening hopes for a deal to end the Middle East war.
The new attacks, including a strike on an Iranian petrochemical complex, came hours after US President Donald Trump called on Israel to refrain from retaliating against Tehran’s missiles.
_AFP_ journalists in Jerusalem heard a series of explosions as they took…
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace shifted her positions on transgender rights and rebranded herself from a moderate Republican to a MAGA culture warrior. In the end, it didn’t help her secure President Donald Trump’s endorsement in South Carolina’s race for governor. In popular terms, _a leopard ate her face_. After reshaping her political identity around Trump and the grievances that animate…
The Trump administration is denying reports of incoming oil price spikes, even as the White House has been warned by multiple executives in the region.
Politico reported that one anonymous executive told the administration that their storage tanks were “at dangerously low levels already,” three months into Iran’s retaliatory blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
“We have shared those concerns at…
Senate Republicans killed a Democratic attempt to end President Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” Thursday.
The Senate voted 50–49 against sending the spending bill back to the Judiciary Committee in order to attach language ending the fund.
Susan Collins of Maine, Jon Husted of Ohio, and Dan Sullivan of Alaska were the only three Republicans to vote with Democrats for codifying the ban.
The…
Plus, did Americans get bigger tax refunds this year?
It appears that a handful of Senate Republicans are prepared to kill Todd Blanche’s dreams of becoming attorney general.
Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are already giving noncommittal answers on whether they’d support acting Attorney General Blanche’s nomination to permanently lead the Justice Department.
“Being attorney general is probably one of the hardest jobs in the Cabinet, because…
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When Graham Platner first announced that he was running for office in Maine, he sounded like a cross between Tucker Carlson and Bernie Sanders. He talked about the dangers of “the oligarchy” and…
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner want to plop down a luxury resort off the coast of Albania, and the locals aren’t too happy about it.
Trump’s daughter said she and her sleazy husband fell in love with an uninhabited island called Sazan while on a sailing trip.
“We were on a friend’s boat, and we stopped for a swim—effectively, that’s how we found it,” Ivanka gushed on David Senra’s podcast. “We…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent became so engrossed Wednesday in providing non-answers about the president’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that he accidentally dodged a question about his own employment.
Bessent’s appearance before the Senate Finance Committee was nothing short of contentious. It was his first time speaking before the committee since Trump settled his fragile $10…
Ousted _60 Minutes_ correspondent Scott Pelley disputed the words of CBS editor in chief Bari Weiss, claiming that what she told the network’s employees about his firing in an editorial call Wednesday was “not true.”
In a written statement first obtained by _The New York Times_ ’ Ben Mulllin, Pelley said, “In the meeting on Tuesday in which I was effectively fired, there was no effort of any…
Marco Rubio just refused to provide a clear answer regarding the administration’s plans for Cuba.
The state secretary appeared before Congress Wednesday for the second day in a row as part of the executive branch’s efforts to defend its $2.2 trillion budget request for 2027. But Rubio’s seemingly endless talking points abruptly ended when he was asked a yes or no question by Representative…
The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is not dead, according to the president.
Donald Trump told the _New York Post_ podcast _Pod Force One_ that his administration had not dropped the $1.8 billion slush fund, putting him at odds with what his officials told Congress.
“No. A court ruled against it. But just so you understand, these are people that’ve been decimated. These are people who have lost their…
I have been reliably informed that the United States is currently governed by Christian nationalists. The term “Christian nationalism” is often used in academic and liberal circles to refer to the modern American right’s fusion of American conservatism with evangelical Christianity. In practical terms, it does little more than provide spurious biblical justifications to an authoritarian and…
Gulf hostilities flared again on Wednesday, with a missile attack damaging Kuwait’s airport and the US military carrying out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, as diplomacy between Washington and Tehran showed little progress.
The latest flare-up, which sent oil prices up more than 1 per cent, comes with the conflict stalemated in a shaky ceasefire and the Strait of Hormuz largely closed, more…
At least four Republican senators are not feeling Bill Pulte, President Trump’s pick to replace Tulsi Gabbard as acting director of national intelligence.
“I see no evidence of any qualifications for that job,” GOP Senator John Cornyn, who recently lost his reelection campaign thanks to a Trump endorsement of his opponent, told PBS’s Lisa Desjardins.
“He doesn’t seem very qualified,” added…
Republican senators are still unconvinced that President Trump is dropping his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization slush fund—and want assurance that Trump won’t use taxpayer funds to pay off his allies. Without it, their own immigration reconciliation bill may also be in jeopardy.
On Monday, the Department of Justice announced that it’d be holding back on its plans for the fund after a federal…
Republicans are slinging mud at the wall trying to counter Graham Platner’s popularity in Maine.
Lacking any competitive, ideological alternative, Kellyanne Conway suggested Monday night that Democrats should be forced to step away from Platner, who has been polling with a tremendous lead for the state’s Senate seat over Governor Janet Mills. (Mills ended her campaign in April, but she is still…
Across from the U.S. Supreme Court building, up a labyrinth of stairs and hallways, behind a plain, wooden desk, sits cherubic Ruben Gallego. Graying beard. Electric-blue eyes. Standing “just slightly above” 5-foot-7, he tells me.
The junior senator from Arizona came up in politics as a progressive darling, but lately, Gallego reads as something else entirely. Not a centrist, exactly. He’s a…