Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) quipped that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was a "cheap date" for voting for President Trump’s giant tax and spending package, seemingly for a tax break for fishermen, during a House Rules Committee hearing on Tuesday. The comment came after Rep.
Some of the California National Guard troops deployed by President Trump to Los Angeles last month will be released from the deployment to fight wildfires as the state prepares for another fire season. In a statement released Tuesday, U.S. Northern Command (Northcom) said that
President Trump said on Tuesday evening that Israel has agreed to the “necessary conditions” to “finalize” a 60-day ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip and pushed the Palestinian militant group Hamas to take the deal, warning that it will “not get better.” “My Representatives
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has reportedly apologized to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani over saying he had referred to “global jihad” in the past. A readout that Politico obtained said Mamdani and Gillibrand talked Monday night on a call amid voting on
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday inclement weather in Washington, D.C., is “part of the problem” House Republicans are grappling with as they look to fast-track their “big, beautiful bill” through the chamber this week. The House is scheduled to convene at 9 a.m. EDT
A majority of surveyed investors are expecting volatility in the stock market to persist through 2025, according to a new survey that was released on Tuesday. The new Gallup poll found that nearly 3 in 4 surveyed investors, 73 percent, think there will be more stock market
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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Trump’s appointment of a new head of the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF), indefinitely halting his directives to massively slash the agency’s workforce and grant funding. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon found that
The public and messy feud between President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk was reignited this week over the president’s “big, beautiful bill” as Congress works to get the massive package to Trump’s desk by July 4. Musk on Monday said he would back primary challengers
The FBI announced Tuesday it would not be moving its headquarters outside of D.C., abandoning plans hatched under the Biden administration to move the bureau to the Maryland suburbs. The bureau will leave the crumbling Hoover Building and instead occupy space at the Ronald
The European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged Iran to resume talks on ending the country’s nuclear program while speaking with Tehran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. “Negotiations on ending Iran's nuclear programme should restart as soon as possible.
It looks like Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is getting exactly what she voted for, even though it’s not what she wanted. Murkowski was the crucial vote Tuesday in passing Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through the Senate. But right after the vote, she said she’d backed
A cross-section of GOP lawmakers is wary of the Senate package and wants to take their time.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani slammed President Trump’s threat to investigate his immigration status and arrest him over his opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) raids. Trump said during a Tuesday press conference at a detention
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from participating on its women’s sports teams and remove the records of Lia Thomas, a former student and the first transgender woman to win a NCAA Division I national championship, the Education Department
Senate Republicans endured a 26-hour slog before finally passing President Trump’s ambitious tax and spending package early Tuesday afternoon, putting it one giant step closer to reaching the president's desk. The bill now heads to the House, where questions surround whether
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass bemoaned the Trump administration's lawsuit challenging the city's sanctuary status and attacking its immigration policies. “The lawsuit is an attempt to overturn the will of the city, calling for a halt to long-standing policy to protect immigrant
A handful of hard-line House conservatives are threatening to tank a Wednesday procedural vote for the party’s reconciliation bill, a revolt that would bring the lower chamber to a screeching halt and potentially derail GOP leadership’s plan of clearing the legislation by July
The 12-member jury in the Sean “Diddy” Combs criminal trial ended deliberations for the evening Tuesday after reaching a verdict on four counts facing the rap mogul, but failing to unanimously vote on the fifth.
Trump officials got a lesson in the Streisand effect—whereby attempts to suppress information only circulate it further—as their outrage over ICEBlock, a free iPhone app that monitors the activity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, propelled the app to the top of
The Trump administration wants to zero out climate research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to a newly released budget document. The document calls for no funding to go to the agency’s climate laboratories or regional climate data and
The Senate’s version of President Trump's “big, beautiful bill” passed Tuesday would make significant changes to student loan programs, worrying advocates that borrowers will face higher monthly payments. The reconciliation bill revamps the types of student loan repayment
A study published Monday found that the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) could result in more than 14 million additional deaths globally by 2030, including 4.5 million deaths of children younger than 5 years. The findings were released hours
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Tuesday railed against the Senate version of the GOP’s tax and spending bill, calling it a “travesty” and saying he expects to see significant changes in the House before it lands on the president’s desk. In an interview on Fox News’s “The Faulkner
In a week dominated by Trump’s budget bill, Democrats can take some solace in a legal victory over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and DOGE. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose of Rhode Island issued an injunction that blocks RFK Jr. from moving on with his
A federal judge on Monday rejected Apple’s request to dismiss the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case against the iPhone maker in an early win for the agency. U.S. District Judge Julien Xavier Neals denied the effort by the tech giant to throw out the case, which
Nearly a third of the ballots cast in the 2024 presidential election were submitted by mail, despite efforts to discourage the method embraced in eight states and Washington, D.C., which have adopted "all" or "mostly" mail elections.
The first full month of summer arrives bearing several celestial treats for skywatchers.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the mass layoffs carried out at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) likely went against the law and there is sufficient evidence to support claims of irreparable harm as a result. U.S. District Judge Melissa R. DuBose, an
✈️ Plus: Netanyahu to visit White House {beacon} GOP megabill to face final gauntlet in House PRESIDENT TRUMP's “big, beautiful bill” cleared the Senate by the barest margin possible Tuesday, setting up a final uncertain path through the House with the clocking ticking toward a
President Trump said that his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, would be a great candidate for the Senate seat in North Carolina to replace Sen. Thom Tillis (R), who recently said he would not seek reelection. When pressed on whom he would want to run for Tillis’s seat, President
Forty-four percent of Americans said the country is becoming less patriotic, significantly more than the share who said Americans are becoming more patriotic, according to a survey published Tuesday. The Economist/YouGov poll found that 44 percent of Americans said they think
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on Tuesday supplied the deciding vote for Senate Republicans to pass Trump’s signature budget bill. After doing so, she registered concerns about the disastrous piece of legislation, even while defending her vote. The bill, if also
The Senate passed a 1,016-page measure Tuesday that enacts major planks in President Trump's second-term agenda, from tax cuts to Medicaid regulations, green energy limits to the debt limit. The upper chamber worked on the bill for weeks and approved it after 27 hours of debate
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee opened an investigation Tuesday into whether the Trump administration violated various court orders in carrying out deportation flights to foreign countries. The probe was sparked by a whistleblower complaint from a fired career
How GOP senators put a big, beautiful stamp on President Donald Trump's signature legislation.
Step right up: For a limited time, you, too, could smell like Donald Trump. The president’s latest business venture is a pair of colognes that retail for $249 per 3.3-ounce bottle. The scent is called “Victory 47-45” for men and women, a nod to his dual election wins. The
Senate Republicans on Tuesday jammed through a major package advancing President Trump’s tax priorities, paid for by a host of cuts to the social safety net, including Medicaid and food assistance. The bill also slashes green energy and includes changes to student loan
Democrats considered potential candidates for the 2028 presidential election quickly pounced on Vice President Vance for casting the tiebreaking vote to pass President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill in the Senate. From Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to former
Former Vice President Kamala Harris slammed the “big, beautiful bill” and highlighted its cuts to several welfare programs, hours after the GOP megabill narrowly cleared the Senate Tuesday. “Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care,” Harris
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Omaha City Council member Brinker Harding has launched a bid for Rep. Don Bacon’s (R-Neb.) seat. “I'm running for Congress because I'm choosing to fight for America's future, to make America more like its heartland, and to make the next 250 years a new golden age for America,”