Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson on Sunday endorsed the city’s Democratic mayor, Karen Bass, for a second term in office. In a video Bass shared to the social platform X, Johnson said that he has known the mayor for three decades and touted her work to reduce
The cost of President Trump’s repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have swelled by $11.3 million months after he first announced the project, which is intended to coincide with celebrations for the country’s 250th founding anniversary. Originally, the president
Sebastian Gorka claimed the Trump administration had been “too effective” in its war in Iran in explaining why the conflict has stretched beyond President Trump’s initial prediction of a four-to-five-week timeline. Gorka, the senior counterterrorism director at the National
Residents in Arizona are struggling to receive SNAP benefits as the state rushes to install new eligibility requirements set by Donald Trump’s “one, big, beautiful bill,” NBC News reported Monday. Since Trump’s behemoth budget bill passed last July, setting in motion nearly
A new proposed rule from the Trump administration aims to make it easier for employers to offer coverage of fertility treatments, as part of larger efforts to expand access to fertility services including in-vitro fertilization. The new rule released Sunday from the Department
The family of a victim in last year’s shooting at Florida State University has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging its ChatGPT chatbot “co-conspired” with the suspected shooter ahead of the crime. In a lawsuit filed in a Florida federal court Monday, the family of Tiru
House Republicans are trying to completely expunge any record of President Trump’s two impeachments. This latest show of fealty , led by California Representative Darrell Issa, would have Trump’s 2019 and 2021 impeachments “expunged as if such Articles had never passed the full
Rahm Emanuel rolled out his latest policy proposal on Sunday, arguing that the U.S. military needs reform to compete in modern warfare. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, the former Chicago mayor wrote that the wars in Ukraine and Iran show that the Pentagon must
The House Ethics Committee on Monday said it has authorized more than 20 subpoenas and contacted dozens of witnesses for its investigation into Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) over various allegations of dating violence and violating campaign finance laws, among other matters. The
The panel is under pressure to police member misconduct in the wake of bad behavior among lawmakers.
President Trump wants to suspend the federal gas tax, telling CBS News Monday that he thinks “it’s a great idea.” “We’re going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we’ll let it phase back in,” Trump said in a phone interview . It’s a tacit
Singer-songwriter Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for $15 million after the company has continued to use her image on the front of its TV boxes for months, despite her repeated requests for a cease and desist. The pop star filed the lawsuit on Friday, with her lawyers condemning the
Bores' pro-regulation stance on the technology puts him on "the right side" of the issue, Ryan says.
As long as discrimination is illegal, these protections should and must extend to white males as well, even if that's not who civil rights attorneys usually have in mind.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) alleged that his party has a double standard when it comes to antisemitism in a Sunday opinion piece for The New York Times. “Across the Democratic Party’s ideological spectrum, right-wing hate is consistently condemned. Today, too many Democrats
The top House Democrat is seeking to calm nerves after a pair of GOP-friendly court decisions.
That should concern conservatives, liberals, independents, libertarians — everybody.
President Trump just got sued for painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue as part of an increasingly expensive renovation project. The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on increasing “support and understanding for cultural landscapes,”
Suicide has become the second leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 24 in the U.S., and Congress has taken steps to provide resources to those struggling with thoughts of suicide, including the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which has helped over 16.5 million Americans
Citing support from President Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) says he will introduce legislation to suspend the federal gas tax, which would save drivers 18.4 cents per gallon. Suspending the gas tax is quickly picking up more support among Republicans on Capitol Hill who are
Top Virginia Democrats have decided against exercising a controversial procedural end run around last week’s state Supreme Court ruling that struck down their redistricting, which wiped away a gain of four House seats, the Democratic leader of the state Senate told The New
The architect of Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda is losing his influence. White House deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller has aimed to rewrite U.S. immigration policy since his early days in Washington as a Senate aide. But even atop
The Pentagon revealed the location of a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed submarine in a rare move a day after President Trump rejected the latest peace proposal from Iran. The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine arrived in Gibraltar, a British territory on Spain’s south coast, on
President Trump has declared the war with Iran won, but the reality is that the conflict is far from over and the Republicans will have a hard time convincing the American people that it was worth it.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is vowing a “massive” response to last week’s Virginia Supreme Court decision on redistricting, which nullified a new map in the Old Dominion to the advantage of Republicans. Jeffries said Democrats will be launching a
Trump has voiced support for a pause on the federal gas tax. But how much is it, and what is it usually used for?
President Donald Trump confirmed reports he aims to pause the federal gas tax as prices remain elevated during the war with Iran.
Republican strategist Karl Rove said Sunday that his party's redistricting push could have unintended consequences in the midterms. When host Trey Gowdy asked Rove on “Sunday Night in America” whether multiple GOP-controlled state legislatures redrawing their congressional
Under President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies, immigrants who call 911 are being detained, and those who are too afraid to call are dying as a result. In December, Axel Sanchez Toledo was violently arrested by police officers after he called 911 to request a
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook and more than a dozen other business leaders are set to join President Trump on his trip to China later this week, according to a White House official. Trump, who is traveling to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on
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The worst of all cases will be failing to anticipate those events, regardless of their outcomes.
One of the patients had mild symptoms, while another tested positive. Officials said the test results were inconclusive.
President Trump described the U.S. ceasefire with Iran as being on “life support” in the Oval Office on Monday after he dismissed Tehran’s counteroffer on nuclear talks. “It’s unbelievably weak,” Trump told reporters when asked if the ceasefire with Iran remains in place for
The latest "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL") cold open featured actors playing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh drinking at a bar in the nation’s capital. The show started with Hegseth, played by Colin Jost, entering
President Trump has once again appeared to doze off on camera in the middle of a White House event, this time, just seconds after he spoke. Trump was joined by Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz, Republican Senator Katie Britt, philanthropist and maternal health
The House of Representatives is voting on a bill to allow nationwide, year-round sales of E15, a lower-cost gasoline blend containing 15 percent American-made ethanol, which would save drivers money and help ensure refiners are able to compete on a level playing field.
The only Democratic commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission is warning Disney that the Trump administration is trying to censor ABC. On Monday, Anna Gomez sent a letter to Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro warning that the TV network is under a “sustained, coordinated
The Republican-appointed super-majority has flatly failed the test.
A group sued over President Trump’s Reflecting Pool project on Monday, arguing the renovation at the National Mall violates environmental and preservation laws. The Cultural Landscape Foundation and its founder, Charles Birnbaum, said the blue paint coating is “altering the
MAGA fans just got screwed, again. Hundreds of thousands of people who bought into the Trump Organization’s “T1 phone” last summer are still waiting to receive their devices, with no refunds in sight. The Trump-branded phone was launched in June 2025, promising early adopters
Taiwan has said it does not want "surprises" during the meeting later this week between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which the island is among the most prickly items on the agenda. Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said that Taiwan was confident
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller had a Latina girlfriend in college who was “embarrassed to be seen with him.” The Financial Times ’ deep dive into Stephen and Katie Miller offered a troubling look into how the man who’s been waging a white supremacist crackdown
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Monday that he expects Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to leave the central bank’s board of governors if he is “happy” with a forthcoming internal report on the Fed’s renovations, which have been repeatedly criticized by
Tonight, a parent will look down at her newborn and say: let’s wait. The virus will not. Neither will the bleed.
Would it have been so hard to write a simple “Happy Mother’s Day” message? Donald Trump unleashed a flood of AI-generated slop on Truth Social Sunday evening to cheer on his own flailing presidency. While Trump may have declined to publicly reference the fact that it was
The area is "prone to earthquake swarms," officials say.