LITTLE GOVERNMENT: With House Republicans at war with themselves over budget and spending, a shutdown of the federal government at midnight Saturday is looking increasingly likely.   Last we heard, Speaker Kevin McCarthy was trolling the corridors to get support for a bill …

ORANGE ALERT: A New York State judge ruled yesterday that Donald Trump, his adult sons, and company committed fraud building his real estate empire by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork submitted for making deals and …

THE BIGGEST FIGHT: New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez spoke publicly for the first time yesterday since his indictment last week, predicting that he will be exonerated and will continue to be his state’s senior senator.   Fellow democrats are lining up saying …

WRITE ON: Hollywood writers and the studios have reached a tentative deal to end their 146-day strike. The Writers Guild of America told its members that no one should return to work quite yet, but picketing is to be suspended immediately. Members …

CRIME AND POLITICS: Proving that the Justice Department doesn’t indict only Republicans, New Jersey’s Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, the powerful Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was charged yesterday with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes — including gold …

TOUGH JUSTICE: Attorney General Merrick Garland sat for a five-hour grilling yesterday by Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee obsessed with the case of Hunter Biden while also accusing the Justice Department of political prosecutions.  They even raised the conspiracy theory that …

Threat to the World: Speaking at the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly yesterday in New York, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia’s aggression against his country as a worldwide threat that would not stop if Russia completely …

SHUTDOWN LOOMING:  A tentative deal on a short-term spending plan reached over the weekend already appears to be in trouble as Republican hardliners are still bent on drastic budget cuts that would never pass the Senate. This leaves the federal government still headed …

ON STRIKE: President Biden came out in support yesterday for the striking United Auto Workers. “Let’s be clear, no one wants a strike. Say it again. No one wants a strike,” Biden said at the White House. “But I respect the workers …

HUNTER INDICTED: President Biden’s son Hunter has been indicted on three federal felony gun charges, accusing him of lying about being addicted to cocaine when he bought a firearm in October 2018.    The charges are somewhat unusually severe given that the gun …