The Senate, by its own standards, is concluding one of its most productive periods in recent history at the close of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days.  The Republican-controlled Senate, which returned from a two-week recess on Monday, confirmed all of Trump’s top nominees, including controversial picks like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.  WHITE SMOKE: BOEHNER’S...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is the subject of a new state-level ethics complaint filed by pro-Trump legal nonprofit America First Legal (AFL). The AFL complaint filed last week adds to the recent woes for James, who’s also facing a criminal referral from the Trump administration related to accusations of mortgage fraud. “For a state prosecutor who has maligned the President of the United States for political...

More than two-thirds of Reserve and Guard troops are overweight, a potential threat to readiness and their ability to deploy at a moment’s notice, a new report by the American Security Project (ASP) found.  Some 68% of the nation’s reserve forces are overweight, ASP researchers estimate.  “With the diminished size of the [active-duty] force and increasing demands on the National Guard and reserves, service members separated due to...