US Elections

US Elections

If Micheál Martin's Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump last St Patrick's Day was a nervy encounter, then this year the stakes are even higher. Back then the largely cosy meeting was clouded by the ongoing war in Ukraine, a delicate ceasefire in Gaza and looming trade tariffs.

I woke up Saturday morning to a blistering social media text from him. Went on and on. Valentine's Day, by the way. He was very mad at me because I didn't get his joke about how China is gonna make Canada give up hockey. You know, I think we're going to have to workshop that one for a while. So he went off on me and said, you know, the dinner we had was a waste of time.

Economists expect the US added 55,000 jobs and the unemployment rate held steady at at a fairly low 4.3%. Last month's report showed a surprisingly strong job gain in January, but revisions to last year's data meant 2025 as a whole saw the weakest growth outside a recession in over 20 years.

The next presidential campaign, I hope, gets behind: Nobody pays income tax below $100,000 a year starting 2030. I think policy, which will be driven by politics, will drive where we end up on this equation.

REPRESENTATIVE MAGGIE GOODLANDER (D-NH): Mr. Colby, concerns have been raised on a bipartisan basis in this hearing about your commitment to the truth, and I want to give you an opportunity to truthfully answer a very simple question, which is: Who won the 2020 presidential election?

Investors in the class-action case have alleged that the world's richest person intentionally misled them when he tweeted that the deal was temporarily on hold while he investigated how much of the platform's traffic was driven by spam and fake accounts known as bots.

While both candidates boast immense social media followings-Talarico with 1.6 million followers and Crockett with 2.6 million followers on TikTok-it wasn't just the candidates who drove the conversation. It was the creators around them, who offer a preview of the digital fights to come throughout the midterms and, ultimately, the 2028 presidential race.

I am challenging Mr. Menefee to a debate ... right away, but I also challenge him to come to work. Within his first month in Congress, after having sworn that he was going to come here and vote ... he missed a week. My voting record is 97.9% over 20 years. He missed six votes in one day, and then missed additional votes as well. We had a classified briefing on the Iran war, he wasn't there. He needs to know that this is where we work.

That country, the U.K., and I love that country. My mother was born there, I love it. My mother was born there, my father was born. He knows all about my father, my father was born there. So, you know, there are places you automatically feel very warmly about.

The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better. He added that the US has a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons, insisting, Wars can be fought forever,' and very successfully, using just these supplies.

Well, most of the people we had in mind are dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming in pretty soon, we're not going to know anybody.

My judgement and experience tell me it is better for Montana and America to have full-time representation in Congress than run the risk of uncertain absence and missed votes.

To be clear ... this is not a single overnight operation. The military objectives CENTCOM and the Joint Force have been tasked with will take some time to achieve, and in some cases will be difficult and gritty work.

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of the current leader, was promoted to the ministerial-level position of party director at the Ninth Congress of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported last week. She was also nominated as a candidate for the Politburo the elite party body reporting to Kim Jong Un.