The House Armed Services Committee at midnight on Friday advanced a historically large defense policy bill that would authorize some $1.15 trillion for the Pentagon, giving service members a pay bump and supporting U.S. allies and acquisition reforms. The legislation also
President Donald Trump doesn’t care that Americans are struggling to pay the surging costs to see their favorite sports teams. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One Friday, Trump defended his planned trip to New York City’s Madison Square Garden to watch the third game of the
President Trump shrugged off frustration among New Yorkers that tickets to see the New York Knicks play in the NBA Finals in person are so expensive. The cheapest tickets to Game 3 of the NBA Finals, which will be played Monday at Madison Square Garden, are going for more than
President Trump is incensed by outgoing Republican Senator Thom Tillis’s refusal to support Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general until he disavows January 6 insurrectionists. “Tillis said he won’t support Todd Blanche’s confirmation unless Todd Blanche condemns
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer publicly report the deaths of released detainees under a newly revised policy, according to an internal memo sent to agency employees Thursday. In the memo, which was obtained by The Washington Post, acting
The number of U.S. measles cases in 2026 has now exceeded 2,000, quickly approaching the full annual total of last year. As of June 4, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed 2,030 cases so far this year, with 93 percent — or 1,890 cases — associated
Fast food chain Steak 'n Shake is touting its political prowess after the Republican candidate it endorsed for Iowa governor defeated a challenger backed by President Trump. The restaurant posted on social platform X that it is "100% in political predictions, just like we are
On Tuesday, NPR’s Bobby Allyn reported that the Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission were investigating George Santos for allegedly making fishy bets on the prediction market Kalshi. Three days later, Allyn said he received a call from Santos in
President Trump is participating in a roundtable on agriculture Friday afternoon in Wisconsin. The Trump administration has felt pressure from farmers over rising fertilizer costs associated with the war in Iran and restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a key
President Trump called Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) “a loser” Friday when asked about the lawmaker’s threat to not support acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination unless Blanche condemns the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol. “Sen. Tillis is a loser. He didn’t run
The Trump administration on Friday auctioned off rights to drill in a pristine wildlife refuge in Alaska, but the lease sale attracted only two bidders on a few tracts of land. Of the about 60 tracts of land opened up for leasing by the Trump administration, only five received
President Trump wants his new director of national intelligence to fire more people. Trump told The Wall Street Journal Friday that he told Bill Pulte, whom he named acting director of national intelligence, that he thought the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Armenia's parliamentary election on June 7 will test whether the small democracy can chart its own future and how much the United States is willing to help it do so, as it attempts to loosen its dependence on Russia and reorient itself toward the West.
President Trump dismissed criticism of the recent Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations on Friday, rejecting claims the project amounted to merely a "paint job." “The Great Reflecting Pool, that stretches between The Lincoln Memorial and The Washington Monument, just
A federal judge in Rhode Island struck down a slew of President Trump’s policies halting immigration processing and freezing out asylum-seekers, ruling that a federal agency was motivated by “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its
Rural hospital closures are the result of failed policies that ignored economic realities, and regulatory relief is the solution to make rural healthcare more sustainable.
Legislative efforts to make daylight saving time permanent year round got a boost with support from President Donald Trump, who criticized the twice-yearly clock switching as cost-prohibitive. But there is no strong evidence that Trump's solution -- switching permanently to
Two members of Congress resigned on April 13, 2026, after being accused of abusing their power to prey on women staff, prompting a bipartisan effort to improve the reporting process for sexual misconduct in Congress.
The Chicago Bears appear to be headed to Northwest Indiana after the board of directors voted to advance its stadium project.
President Trump said he’s hopeful acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte will shrink the size of his new office, saying it’s “too big.” The comments came in an interview the president gave The Wall Street Journal amid controversy over his installation of Pulte, who
The federal budget deficit is projected to reach 120 percent of GDP by 2036, and 175 percent by 2046, due to a combination of tax cuts and increased spending, requiring both tax increases and benefit reductions to address the issue.
While the administration continues to launch controversial initiatives, the institutions designed to provide checks and balances are pushing back, because there is a right and a wrong way to do things. The result is a president who increasingly finds himself spending time
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) was the only Democrat to vote against a bill that passed the House Thursday that would provide new military assistance to Ukraine and impose sanctions on Russia, breaking with her party as it delivered a bipartisan blow to President Trump’s foreign
The case of the missing New Jersey representative continues to baffle constituents, and the fact that Tom Kean Jr. is submitting legislation in absentia isn’t helping matters, as NBC News reported Friday. Like many members of Congress, Kean posts regularly on X and Instagram
Twelve Democrats voted against the House Armed Services Committee’s nearly $1.15 trillion version of the annual Defense policy bill late Thursday, a rare break in the typically bipartisan panel. Ranking member Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) called the committee’s National Defense
What it cares about is steering defense dollars toward Canadian firms, Canadian intellectual property and Canadian supply chains.
The House Armed Services Committee passed a measure deepening cooperation between the Israeli and U.S. militaries, ignoring allegations that Israel committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in its war on Gaza. Democratic Representative Ro Khanna proposed an amendment to
A majority on a three-judge appeals court panel appeared sympathetic to a challenge to President Trump’s White House ballroom project at oral arguments Friday. The two Democratic-appointed judges pressed the government on its arguments that Congress has already given all
President Trump on Friday pushed back on inflation concerns driven by a strong jobs report, arguing robust growth should be viewed as a positive for markets. "With a great Jobs Report, like just announced, stocks should go up, not down,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. "That’s the
Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have no choice - even if they're US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week
A federal judge on Friday vacated a series of President Trump's policies enacted in the wake of a deadly attack on National Guard members, forcing immigration agencies to again process applications from citizens of nearly 40 countries. In the days surrounding last Thanksgiving,
Everyone is up in arms, and rightly so, about what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS News in general and 60 Minutes in particular. The firing of Scott Pelley will reverberate in American journalism history as a symbolic execution of the single most groundbreaking and successful news
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche—who is currently struggling to secure Senate support for his nomination to permanently lead the Department of Justice—revealed he is placing “roadblocks” to make it harder for Democrats to prosecute President Trump and his administration
Why in the world did the Department of Justice just declare that President Donald Trump has the right to demolish the Statue of Liberty? During oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington Friday, lawyers for the DOJ presented the government’s case for
Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner (D) said Thursday that his past sexting with multiple women was an issue that he and his wife, Amy Gertner, dealt with early on in their marriage. When asked in an interview when the sexually explicit messaging ended, Platner told MS NOW: “It
It was always pretty naive to think the ultrarich individuals donating to Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom project were doing so out of the goodness of their hearts. A new report from the nonprofit government watchdog Public Citizen has calculated that 14 ballroom donors
Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee moved to codify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War” name change during a marathon session of debate over the annual defense policy bill. Lawmakers on the committee, in a party-line vote, adopted the amendment
The State Department is weighing in on an explosive criminal case in the United Kingdom centered on questions around the weaponization of racial discrimination, underscoring the Trump administration’s focus on culture wars abroad and accusations of prejudice against white
The premium that investors require to hold dollar debt could rise further.
Cracks in the transfer tunnel of the aging space station have been causing leaks since 2019.
The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it's meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large
An NPR reporter on Thursday accused former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) of threatening him during a heated phone call that included the phrase “a gun in your face.” NPR’s Bobby Allyn said the comments from Santos came a day after he published a report on the Department of
President Trump unveiled plans Thursday for a new pedestrian "promenade" connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River, the latest in a series of high-profile projects aimed at reshaping some of Washington's most recognizable landmarks. “We’re going to call it the
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Friday he is pausing the state’s data center tax incentives starting in July amid a push to address concerns about electricity costs and water resources that have plagued the AI infrastructure build-out nationwide. He directed state officials
Officials in Florida decided a viable unborn child has legal standing worthy of state protection. Legally, however, that creates a dangerous framework, because it transforms the pregnant woman’s autonomy into something conditional. And what gets lost in all of this is the
The announcement comes after most of the previously announced musical acts dropped out or distanced themselves from the Great American State Fair event.
House Republicans, joined by four Democrats, voted Thursday to cut food aid for pregnant women and children. The House passed a bill 213–210 that reduced funding for the Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies. The bill includes a $141 million cut to food and
An ex-girlfriend of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is expressing her frustration with The New York Times over the way it portrayed her and others' experience dating the Democrat. Lyndsey Fifield, whom the Times quoted as part of a wide-ranging story detailing allegations