Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence after they failed to alert police to the suspected shooter's ChatGPT activity.
The Supreme Court just threw out Louisiana’s redrawn congressional map in a huge blow to the Voting Rights Act, an essential pillar of the civil rights movement. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana’s redrawn congressional
President Trump discussed domestic and international energy markets during a meeting with industry executives and other officials at the White House on Tuesday, according to a White House official. The official told The Hill that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosted the
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines struck down Louisiana’s congressional map on Wednesday that added a second majority-Black district, a decision that carries seismic implications for the future of the Voting Rights Act. Louisiana’s legal saga thrust
Republicans are realizing most Americans don’t like President Trump using the Justice Department to persecute those he believes have personally wronged him. In the midst of a contentious midterm cycle, some on the right have politely suggested the man in the Oval Office focus
The Senate Banking Committee voted Wednesday to advance Kevin Warsh’s nomination to lead the Federal Reserve, just days after the Department of Justice (DOJ) said it was dropping its criminal probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The panel voted 13-11 along party lines to send
The number of President Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters is dwindling, according to a recent poll. Only 18 percent of Americans strongly approve of Trump’s job performance, down from 34 percent at the start of his second term, according to an Economist/YouGov poll
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, President Trump posted a wild threat to Iran on his Truth Social page. “Iran can’t get their act together. They don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal. They better get smart soon! President DJT,” the post read, accompanied by a picture
The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a group of faith-based pregnancy centers on Wednesday in their fight with New Jersey’s Democratic attorney general, who is investigating allegations the centers may have misled donors to believe they support abortions. Justice Neil
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) on Tuesday criticized former FBI Director James Comey after he was indicted by a grand jury in a new case brought by the Department of Justice, the second time DOJ has sought to prosecute him. The new lawsuit concerns a social media post Comey made last
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Tuesday slammed the Justice Department (DOJ) for bringing charges against his former boss, James Comey, for a second time, arguing there are better uses of the department’s time and resources. “They actually have real work to do,”
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Wednesday defended comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who is facing calls for his firing over jokes he made last week about President Trump and first lady Melania Trump. "I don't want to cancel comedy. I believe in freedom of speech. I think that was, you know,
Is this just partisan politics levied against Chicago?
A Democrat at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is blasting the department for kicking off an early review process targeting several Disney-owned broadcast stations for license renewal. Commissioner Anna M. Gomez, a frequent critic of Chairman Brendan Carr, called
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Tuesday called the new indictment charges against former FBI Director James Comey "surreal and absurd." Comey's second indictment is connected to a social media photo he posted last May of several seashells on a beach in North Carolina arranged to
Publicly, Donald Trump has promised a quick and resolute end to the war with Iran—but talk of the conflict is entirely different inside his inner circle. The president has told his aides to prepare for an “extended” blockade of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz as negotiations with
The announcement comes as commitee Democrats had just announced a resolution to hold the ousted attorney general in contempt of Congress.
Nobody is buying the Department of Justice’s latest attempt to get revenge on former FBI Director James Comey—not even the president’s conservative allies in the media. In a scathing response published Tuesday in the National Review, Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy tore
The body blows to the First Amendment might never heal.
Allen is accused of trying to assassinate Trump and members of his Cabinet at the White House correspondents' dinner Saturday.
Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley said charging former FBI Director James Comey would amount to a free speech trap after the Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a second indictment against him. “Comey will now likely create a new category of protected shell speech,” Turley
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb on Tuesday criticized the Justice Department’s (DOJ) latest indictment against former FBI Director James Comey as “vindictive prosecution,” saying he expects it to be dismissed. “It’s specious. It’ll be thrown out. It’s classic, you know,
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) seeking access to his state’s voter registration list. U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich, an appointee of President Trump, wrote that under
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on President Trump's defense budget request for fiscal 2027. Hegseth has argued the $1.5 trillion price tag, a roughly 40 percent increase from
Our nation now does sit on the razor’s edge of anarchy, with seemingly countless Americans radicalized to embrace political violence. The “President’s Club” must immediately come together as one to call out such violence and insanity before it becomes unstoppable.
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis this week is pushing his state’s GOP-dominated legislature to adopt a gerrymandering scheme that could create four new Republican U.S. House districts in the Sunshine State. If this proposal passes, it would essentially cancel out the
The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning will consider the Trump administration's efforts to curtail the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) program, which offers protections against deportation for noncitizens who cannot safely return to their home countries for a variety of
Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at President Trump once again Tuesday, as their ongoing feud heats up. During an episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on ABC, the host had his audience watch a clip of Trump speaking earlier in the day at an event with King Charles III and
The House Armed Services Committee has its chance to question Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine on Wednesday morning amid the Iran war as it hits 60 days with no imminent conclusion. It's their first of two days of hearings. According
A six-figure income used to be shorthand for "rich." Now, it's barely enough to get by in many parts of the country.
The upheaval of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by a would-be assassin has committed the Justice Department to two goals: Build a ballroom at the White House, and keep the suspect detained. Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged gunman, already faces three
Temporary protected status and broader refugee and humanitarian protections are not loopholes to be closed.
Speaker Mike Johnson will try to advance three Republican priorities today amid caucus infighting.
President Trump early Wednesday warned the Iranian regime that it “better get smart soon” as negotiations over a peace deal have largely stalled between the two sides. “Iran can’t get their act together,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. This week, Donald Trump
Anyone who has actually worked presidential-level security understands this is not a close call.
The conflict in Iran should be a reminder of, not a cause to divert attention from, U.S. interests in the West Pacific. America’s war in the Middle East demonstrates the necessity of allies to American strategy. This is equally critical in military, economic, and technological
In today’s issue: The war between the U.S. and Iran is set to run past the 60-day mark this week, a key milestone in the War Powers Act, which some Republicans have said could be a turning point in their in their support for ongoing operations in the Middle East. The Senate is
Meta is breaching Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent children under 13 from using Facebook and Instagram, according to a preliminary decision issued by the European Commission. The Commission announced the ruling on Wednesday after an almost
President Donald Trump’s poor economic performance is costing him with Sun Belt voters, giving Democrats an opening to win them over ahead of the fall midterm elections—but it will be an uphill battle because these voters largely favor the Republicans right now. That’s the
As prediction markets rise in popularity and notoriety, several news outlets have recently engaged in partnerships with the most prominent of these companies, raising questions about how and why media organizations would want to become entangled with an industry essentially
The Supreme Court will weigh the Trump administration’s efforts to curtail temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of noncitizens on Wednesday. The oral arguments put the justices at the center of another key plank of President Trump’s immigration crackdown:
State prosecutors are turning up the heat on social media and artificial intelligence companies over their safeguards for children as federal lawmakers remain at an impasse on the issue. From new investigations to a string of settlements, verdicts and state laws, state leaders
Senate Republicans aren’t in the mood to vote on legislation to greenlight President Trump’s controversial plan to build a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom, as some GOP lawmakers see it as a bad political move in the current political climate, especially if it would
The House Republicans’ go-it-alone approach is snarling efforts to move a series of must-pass bills through the lower chamber this week. On three major pieces of legislation — to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), extend the government’s spying powers and set farm
Voters in Virginia last week approved a new, Democratic-friendly congressional map that could tip the fight for House control in the midterms, but Florida is on track to parry with a GOP-favored map that could offset those gains. The states represent the latest fronts in a
A contentious pro-pesticide provision in the farm bill could create hurdles to the legislation moving through the House, as lawmakers aligned with the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement rage against the measure. The language in question, which seeks to block some
For an uncomfortably long time on Monday, two lawmakers shouted at one another about climate change in a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing about the Trump administration’s proposed budget for the Environmental Protection Agency. One was EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. The
Last month, congressional Republicans introduced legislation to shield Big Oil companies from liability for their role in the climate crisis. This was just the latest in the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to escape accountability for delaying our clean energy transition through
Democrats hold a 10-point advantage over Republicans on a generic congressional ballot, according to the latest in a series of polls showing the party in a strong position ahead of November’s midterm elections. In a three-day Emerson College Polling survey, conducted this past