Author: David Gregoire

Viktor Orbán conceded after 16 years in power as projections showed Péter Magyar of the opposition Tisza party winning a roughly two-thirds parliamentary majority, a result that promises major shifts in Hungary’s political direction and its handling of domestic and international issues. After 16 years as prime minister, Viktor Orbán conceded defeat following Sunday’s parliamentary election. The concession underscores a clear change in voter sentiment and ends a long stretch of uninterrupted leadership. It also hands significant authority to the new parliamentary majority. Péter Magyar, leader of the opposition party Tisza, was projected to secure about a two-thirds majority in…

The DNC’s spring meeting in New Orleans exposed a sharp split: leaders approved a general rebuke of dark money, rejected an AIPAC-specific resolution, and punted two Israel-related measures to a new Middle East working group, laying bare a strategic and ideological rift inside the party. At the DNC’s spring meeting in New Orleans, members passed a blanket condemnation of dark money but voted down a resolution that explicitly named the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The AIPAC-specific measure will not move forward to the full body, while two other resolutions on Palestinian statehood and conditioning U.S. military aid to Israel…

Still marveling over their moon mission, the Artemis II astronauts received a thunderous welcome home Saturday from hundreds who took part in NASA’s lunar comeback that set a record for deep space. The Artemis II crew walked into a roar of applause as communities and supporters gathered to mark their return from a historic journey. The mood was part celebration and part relief, with families, engineers and fans sharing a rare public moment with the astronauts. People lingered at the edges of the event, taking in details of gear and mission patches while swapping impressions of the flight. On the…

College sports are drawing huge audiences and massive revenue, but that growth raises fresh questions about priorities, pay, and the future structure of the game. Television numbers suggest college athletics are thriving on the national stage. In 2025-26, college football posted the largest regular-season audience and delivered the decade’s biggest championship game viewership at 30 million. CBS and TNT reported that Monday’s basketball title game between Michigan and Connecticut attracted the kind of attention networks crave, reinforcing the idea that marquee matchups still move huge audiences. Those ratings translate into real cash for conferences, schools, and broadcasters. Media rights deals…

Sen. Ron Johnson’s approach to partisan nastiness is simple and unapologetic: meet opposition tactics head-on, and don’t cede the field to bad actors in the other party. Sen. Ron Johnson sees it as a kind of golden rule in dealing with nasty Dem politics: Do unto others before they do unto you. He frames that not as vindictiveness but as a strategy to prevent conservatives from being continually disadvantaged by partisan weaponization. For many Republicans, that blunt logic feels like common sense after years of perceived one-way attacks. That approach comes from a place of frustration with what conservatives describe…

Tax refunds this season rose 24% versus the four-year pre-Trump average, the administration said Thursday, and officials point to Republican tax changes as the explanation. The Treasury announced that tax refunds this season are up 24% compared with the four-year average of refunds before President Donald Trump took office, his administration said Thursday. That is a clear, measurable jump that officials are tying to policy changes enacted by Republicans in recent years. The increase has become a talking point for GOP leaders who argue the tax approach is helping ordinary Americans. Republicans credit their tax legislation with simplifying filings and…

Four 17-year-olds in Travis County face aggravated kidnapping charges after a February incident near Del Valle High School where a classmate was allegedly lured to a garage, bound, beaten, and threatened while one suspect recorded parts of the attack. Four teenagers — Jose Rojas-Alvarado, Oscar Armando Santiago-Martinez, Angel Lemus-Perez, and Carlos Roberto Oliva-Villeda — are charged with aggravated kidnapping with a deadly weapon in Travis County. Court records say Lemus-Perez also faces an organized criminal activity charge, and if convicted the group faces sentences ranging from five to 99 years in prison. According to arrest affidavits cited by local reporting,…

Like the national debt, politicos of all stripes treated the despotic regime in Iran as a problem for future generations to worry about – until President Donald Trump decided to make it an issue for now. For years the Tehran regime was largely a talking point for future headlines, a distant danger packaged into committee hearings and column inches. That changed when the United States under President Donald Trump began treating Iranian aggression as an immediate security challenge, not a problem for some later political calendar. The shift forced allies and adversaries alike to re-evaluate how to manage a volatile…

President Donald Trump issued a stark warning on Truth Social before entering negotiations, saying “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” and his words set a high-stakes tone for the talks that followed. President Donald Trump used blunt language to frame the talks as existential, and that tone was no accident. This is the kind of messaging he has leaned on for years to underline the perceived gravity of a deal. Supporters see it as clear-eyed deterrence while critics call it alarmist. His exact words,…

Michael Avenatti, the attorney known for representing Stormy Daniels in her unsuccessful defamation suit against President Donald Trump, has been released from federal prison after serving his sentence, and his return raises questions about accountability, public spectacle, and how the legal system treats high-profile figures. Michael Avenatti’s release is a reminder that high-profile legal fights don’t end with a courtroom verdict. He first rose to national attention as the lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels in her unsuccessful defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, a case that made him a fixture on cable news. That visibility shaped public perception…