July 21, 2026 at 11:58 AM EDT
Trump fires warning shot at Canada: 'They need us to survive'

President Donald Trump once again took aim at Canada after reigniting his feud with America's neighbor to the north, claiming "they need us to survive" during an Oval Office event on Wednesday. Trump this week escalated his long-simmering feud with Canada after wildfires in the country blanketed much of the American Northeast and Midwest in dangerous levels of smoke, an occurrence becoming more common with the advance of climate change. Holding Canada responsible for the air quality threat, Trump threatened to impose new tariffs over the situation, and on Monday evening, announced that he would be setting a separate 50 percent tariff on certain Canadian goods in 30 days, claiming that this was in response to the country allegedly discriminating against U.S. exports.

July 21, 2026 at 11:55 AM EDT
Revealed: Here's the real impeachment target as Dems head for legislative takeover

As Democrats look increasingly likely to take over Congress after the 2026 midterm elections, some lawmakers are looking toward impeachment -- but not necessarily for President Donald Trump. MS NOW columnist Hayes Brown cautioned that Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought may be the most dangerous man in Trump's administration, and he should get the first honor.

July 21, 2026 at 11:48 AM EDT
Trump goes groveling to GOP enemies to save floundering nomination

As a key nomination flounders, Politico reported that the Trump administration has resorted to groveling for help from some of the president's biggest GOP enemies. President Donald Trump is attempting to get Todd Blanche, his one-time personal attorney and the acting attorney general, confirmed by the Senate as the proper attorney general, but has so far encountered significant resistance. Concerns remain, even among Republicans, that Blanche is committed to going through Trump's contentious "slush fund" plan, and about how much he would actually keep the Justice Department independent from the White House. The latter worry was far from assuaged when, during a recent hearing, Blanche said, "I'm his lawyer," when pressed about his connections to Trump.

July 21, 2026 at 11:46 AM EDT
'Increasingly distrusted' Supreme Court could be heading for major showdown

During former President Joe Biden's four years in the White House, many critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's GOP-appointed 6-3 supermajority proposed packing SCOTUS with additional seats -- an idea that Biden rejected. But Reason's Damon Root predicts that the proposal will likely make a comeback if Democrats retake Congress in the 2026 midterms. "After his election in 2020," Root explains in the libertarian Reason, "President Joe Biden faced enormous pressure from progressive activists who wanted him to expand the U.S. Supreme Court by packing it with a supermajority of new liberal justices who would be ready, willing, and able to override the Court's conservative majority. Yet Biden consistently resisted such pressure. Why? Perhaps it was because Biden agreed with liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said it 'was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the Court' in 1937, and it would be an equally bad idea to try again. 'If anything would make the Court look partisan,' Ginsburg said, 'it would be that -- one side saying, 'When we're in power, we're going to enlarge the number of judges, so we would have more people who would vote the way we want them to.'"

July 21, 2026 at 11:34 AM EDT
Senator blasts GOP for killing IVF for soldiers after Trump said he'd make it free

When he was campaigning in 2024, President Donald Trump proclaimed that in his presidency, in vitro fertilization (IVF) would be free for anyone who wants it. Now, Republicans intend to cut funding for it altogether in the programs that do currently fund it. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) told CNN on Tuesday that she intends to hammer Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as he appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee to discuss Trump's funding demands for the Iran war. She wants to know what Hegseth has spent so far and what it will cost in the future. The last amount Congress saw, she said, was $35 billion, but that was well over a month ago and only included munitions. She fears it's now over $100 billion.

July 21, 2026 at 6:02 AM EDT
O, Canada: We're doing everything we can to put Trump back in his cage

Trump on Monday signed orders to impose a 50 percent tariff on a wide range of Canadian imports. The White House claims the tariffs are a "punishment" for Canadian discrimination against American cars, dairy, and alcohol.

July 20, 2026 at 10:41 PM EDT
Psychiatrists: Trump's escalating rage poses nuclear threat

President Donald Trump once again displayed evidence of cognitive decline, at least according to one political expert. Speaking for The Daily Beast, analyst David Rothkopf cited Trump's Sunday remarks shortly after arriving at Joint Base Andrews.

July 20, 2026 at 9:15 PM EDT
The margins are razor-thin --but one party will likely Congress: experts

According to polling experts, either President Donald Trump's Republican Party or the opposition Democratic Party will sweep both houses of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. Yet even as Trump's Thursday speech promoting debunked election conspiracy theories and attempts to rig the midterms suggests he fears Democrats will be the victors, these same experts say it could go either way. "Forecasters say Democrats are favored to take the U.S. House this November while Republicans are favored to hold the Senate, yet the likeliest outcome is one party sweeping full control of Congress," wrote The Center Square's Brett Rowland on Monday.

July 20, 2026 at 7:36 PM EDT
Trump's economy hasn't sunk the GOP because the Dems blew it: analysis

President Donald Trump's Republican Party should be performing worse than it currently is against their Democratic counterparts, according to an anti-Trump conservative. The economy continues to suffer under Trump, and because voters are noticing, Trump is sending signals that he plans on rigging the midterms. So why aren't Democrats doing better? The Dispatch staff writer Nick Catoggio shared some of his views on Monday.

July 20, 2026 at 7:15 PM EDT
Showdown brewing between Trump and Mamdani over Netanyahu arrest

US President Donald Trump declared Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu""who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza""will be safe from arrest in the United States after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was exploring whether he could apprehend the fugitive during his planned visit to the United Nations in September. "Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America," Trump said on his Truth Social network.

July 20, 2026 at 7:02 PM EDT
Iowa is acting 'differently': Expert issues stark warning on GOP's future in red state

Political expert Charlie Cook, the founder of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said Monday he thinks Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand will win Iowa's gubernatorial election, but the U.S. Senate race between State Rep. Josh Turek and U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson may not be as competitive as Democrats might think. Cook said Iowa is no longer considered a "swing" state and "hasn't been for a long time," adding that he does not believe Iowa's open U.S. Senate seat will flip due to hyperpolarization in modern politics.

July 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM EDT
Behind closed doors: Expert predictions on what Trump will do next in escalating war

Trump's war with Iran has resumed (it never really stopped). The U.S. is sending more warplanes to the Middle East. Two American service members were killed in an Iranian missile attack on Jordan, and a third is missing. The Strait of Hormuz is again closed. Meanwhile, Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first statement following his father's funeral, saying "revenge is the will of our nation" and that Iran would act against "criminals whose names are known." In response, Trump threatened to "completely decimate and destroy" Iran if assassination threats against him were acted upon.