U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was criticized late Tuesday after a video emerged of him at a press conference in Ecuador calling a record number of drug seizures in the country a “good news, bad news” story.

The U.S. Defense Secretary’s itinerary to Eastern Europe was bound to anger Moscow, which announced it was shuttering its NATO mission and kicking NATO diplomats out of Moscow.

President Joe Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency in the Department of Treasury once referred to the financial services industry as the “quintessential a****** industry” raising questions about her objectivity if confirmed to the post.

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin promised to bring transparency, accountability, choice, and higher standards to the state’s schools, specifically condemning the Loudoun County School Board for allegedly covering up a male student’s alleged sexual assault against a female student in a girls’ restroom before that male student allegedly assaulted another girl at another school months later.

Seventeen state attorneys general penned a letter to President Biden and Merrick Garland demanding a cease to “scare tactics” used by the federal government to intimidate parents into silence at school board meetings.

Texas Republicans approved on Monday redrawn U.S. House maps that favor incumbents and decrease political representation for growing minority communities, even as Latinos drive much of the growth in the nation’s largest red state.