Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum held by Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal and Representative Robert Garcia on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good, who was shot and
The Alabama Republican Party dismissed a challenge over the residency of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who is running for governor in the state. The challenge was filed last week by Ken McFeeters, an insurance agent who is running against Tuberville for the GOP nomination.
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) on Tuesday questioned a top Trump health official on the administration modeling policy around Denmark, a largely homogeneous country of just over 6 million people. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos would not say whether a ransom has been offered in the investigation into the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie. At a press conference Tuesday, the Arizona county sheriff twice
It's estimated that one in five qualifying tax filers who qualify for the tax credit, which could be worth thousands, won't apply.
Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was arrested and charged with assaulting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with vinegar during a town hall in her district last week, and a federal judge has ordered him to remain behind bars.
The Department of Justice’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) is charged with overseeing the country’s 71 immigration courts adjudicating a backlog of roughly 3.7 million cases. In the face of such an overwhelming project, the Trump administration has clearly
Former first lady Jill Biden's ex-husband faces a murder charge in the death of his current wife, officials said Tuesday. Delaware's New Castle County Police said William Stevenson, 77, was taken into custody Monday after a grand jury returned a one-count indictment against him
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) will hold a public forum Tuesday on the Trump administration's "violent tactics and disproportionate use of force" in its immigration enforcement operations. The forum comes as Democrats have pushed for reforms
An Epstein survivor said seeing her name unredacted in the documents broke her "trust in the Justice Department."
The Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office is seeing a wave of resignations following the Department of Justice’s handling of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Eight lawyers are either leaving or have announced their intentions to quit the office, following six other
Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the “greatest threat” to the homeland right now as Democrats fight to reform the agency and restrict the Trump administration's most controversial immigration enforcement practices. “Let me
The health secretary is at odds with his own agency. The director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Tuesday to discuss efforts to modernize the public health sector. But his
It's not just Bad Bunny performing on Sunday. Here's what to know about the rest of the Super Bowl musical entertainment.
President Donald Trump is expected to swiftly sign the legislation.
The House voted Tuesday to end a partial government shutdown, funding the bulk of the federal agencies and providing 10 more days of funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats make demands for reforms to immigration enforcement. The 217-214 final vote to send
Three years after the East Palestine train derailment, a federally funded research program has been launched to study the long-term health impacts of the disaster and to provide evidence-based medical guidance to the affected community.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony Tuesday afternoon from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos on the streaming platform's bid to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN, HBO and other top media brands. Netflix announced in December it had reached a
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) fired back at President Trump on Monday after he accused the GOP lawmaker's wife of being a part of the “radical left” in a Truth Social post. “So now he’s attacking my wife who voted for him three times,” Massie wrote in a post on the social platform
Columnist and author Michael Wolff on Sunday hit back at President Trump's threat of filing a lawsuit claiming Wolff and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein conspired to hurt him politically, with the writer telling the president to "bring it on." Wolff, in a video posted on
The Trump administration is targeting free speech with a little-known legal tool: administrative subpoenas. The Washington Post reports that a retired Philadelphia man, Jon, 67, found himself in the government’s crosshairs after he emailed a lead prosecutor at the Department
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unveiled deposition dates for former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. The Clintons agreed Monday to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in its probe
Through President Donald Trump's first full 10 months in office, the cumulative U.S. trade deficit in goods and services was down 3.9% from the same period in 2024. His claim that he has "slashed our trade deficit by 77%" appears to compare the monthly trade deficit in January
The U.S. military shot down an Iranian drone on Tuesday after it approached the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, as the tension between Washington and Tehran ratchets up. An F-35C fighter plane downed an Iranian Shahed-139 drone after the unmanned aircraft
President Trump tore into The New York Times early Tuesday over reporting that his administration is dropping a cash ask to settle investigations into Harvard University. "The Failing New York Times story was completely wrong concerning Harvard University," Trump wrote in a
ProPublica has confirmed the names of the two immigration enforcement agents wo shot and killed Alex Pretti. And their identities might be surprising to many liberals who are forming their impressions about Border Control and ICE from Democratic talking heads on cable news.
The White House has proposed a 10 percent cap on credit card interest rates, a move that has been met with resistance from the banking industry but has gained support from both parties in Congress, as the American public is tired of feeling like the house always wins.
After President Trump slammed Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and his wife on Monday, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) criticized her former Republican colleagues for not standing by the Kentuckian. In a lengthy post on the social platform X, Greene wrote that Trump
Broadway legend Patti LuPone is calling on supporters of the arts to sound the alarm about President Trump's plan to temporarily close the Kennedy Center, saying he "cannot touch" the Washington institution. "I'm sorry but I'm so mad," the former "Evita" star said in closing
The House is set to vote on a bill to fund the government and reopen it, while President Trump is meeting with Colombian President Gustavo Petro to discuss Venezuela and the flow of drugs, and the search for Savannah Guthrie's missing mother continues.
The House is set to take up a floor vote on the five-bill minibus and stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Tuesday afternoon, after lawmakers cleared a key procedural vote despite reservations from some within the GOP caucus. Conservative members were
On Monday, President Trump suggested that Republicans should “take over” and “nationalize” voting. But House Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t too concerned. “The Republicans should say, ‘We wanna take over, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places’; the Republicans ought
The White House is pledging support for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, who has been missing since Saturday and police believe was forcibly taken from her Arizona home. "The search for Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, is ongoing, and
A student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been confirmed to be infected with measles, making this the first case in Dane County this year.
The House on Tuesday voted to advance a funding package to end the partial government shutdown, as Republicans who at times have bickered over procedural votes stuck together and moved the package a significant step closer to President Trump's desk. In a 217-215 vote, the House
The Trump administration should prioritize renewable fuels such as biodiesel, renewable diesel, ethanol and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to create stable, high volume domestic demand for corn, soybeans and other agricultural products, while also helping to lower food prices
The State Department was sued Tuesday by would-be immigrants who argue the Trump administration ran afoul of the law when barring immigrant visas for 75 different countries. The Monday suit targets a January decision by the Trump administration to pause processing for
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday condemned legislation requiring ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote as “nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0.” Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) has attempted to include the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Monday slammed the Department of Justice's assessment that there will be no further investigation into people associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying that "every single person who went to Epstein's island should have an
A Maryland community has nixed a previously issued building permit for a private detention center that local officials said would be used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Howard County government revoked the permit Monday, ending construction for the proposed
Independent journalist Georgia Fort said Monday that her arrest on federal civil rights charges stemming for her coverage of a protest inside a Minnesota church is part of a “strategic attack on the free press.” A grand jury indicted Fort, former CNN anchor Don Lemon and seven
The Pentagon says it is close to an agreement with Scouting America to keep providing financial support, but said the organization must show its commitment to implementing "common-sense, core value reforms.” The Defense Department (DOD) said that it has been reviewing its
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday touted a new $100 million effort to fight opioid addiction highlighting the country’s “fragmented” system for addressing substance abuse. Kennedy said HHS will implement the Safety Through
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Tuesday that Republican senators will discuss employing a seldom-used interpretation of the Senate Rules to require that Democrats actively hold the Sente floor with continuous debate — a so-called standing filibuster — to
You’ll never guess which country launched a massive attack just hours after President Donald Trump announced yet another supposed temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Sitting at his desk in the Oval Office Monday, Trump repeated his claim that Russian President
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, in a new report, allege that a "culture of impunity" at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) led to the shooting deaths of two Minneapolis residents last month. U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti were both killed in
Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a Senate hearing Tuesday that he has not seen any studies supporting the theory that any vaccines cause autism, a break from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long
Bruce Springsteen's protest song ripping what he calls the "state terror" tactics by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is topping the music sales charts in the United States. "Streets of Minneapolis" was last week's highest-selling song in the United States,