Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) holds a slim lead in hypothetical matchups against Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) and Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) in the state's Senate race, according to a recent survey. The poll, conducted by the Glengariff Group, found that 43.8
An investigation from House Judiciary Democrats concluded the Justice Department has approved more than a million dollars in payments to fired FBI agents, and accuses the Trump administration of “improperly shower[ing] government cash” on employees who were dismissed after
The head of the Food and Drug Association, Marty Makary, is resigning Tuesday, becoming the latest Cabinet member to leave the Trump administration. Makary is resigning from the agency after clashing with President Trump over vaping and other policy decisions, and his possible
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary will announce his resignation on Tuesday, according to multiple outlets, amid mounting reports of President Trump's growing dissatisfaction with the physician’s tenure. Politico Pro was first to report on Tuesday
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to rank researchers by their
Language that would restrict government officials’ engagements with digital assets is a key demand for Senate Democrats.
The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors and also voted to advance his nomination to serve as chairman of the central bank, where he will have significant influence over future interest rates. The Senate voted 51 to 45 to
ATLANTA - Louisiana voters may face confusion at the ballot box Saturday, as House primaries are on hold but the Senate primaries are moving forward after a Supreme Court decision last month. A ruling that the state's new House map was an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander"
A U.S. citizen is suing the Department of Homeland Security after ICE arrested him twice last year. ICE just arrested him a third time . In a court filing last week, Leo Garcia Venegas said that on the morning of May 2, an unmarked SUV blocked him in his driveway at his home in
I, for one, would like to do more than just hope it will be fine. Personally, I’d prefer to quarantine everybody until we could be certain that they did not have the virus.
A recent televised interview with former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra (D) about his campaign for California governor got off to a rocky start when the former state attorney general immediately questioned the intentions of the sit-down. “By the way, this
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said she would oppose advancing a long-stalled Senate-passed housing bill if it came to the floor, despite President Trump’s push for the House to pass the measure. Luna, in an interview with The Hill on Tuesday, cited her frustration with
Current federal marijuana policy is not based on scientific evidence and risks bypassing the scientific and regulatory processes designed to protect public health, as seen in the rise of illegal marijuana shops and the lack of clear guidance for families and young people.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Tuesday defended the amount of money reportedly spent on President Trump's revamp of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and told critics to "stop the henpecking." The New York Times cited federal records that showed the actual cost of the
Federal prosecutors have filed the first criminal charges against the operator of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore over two years ago. The wreck, which left six people dead and caused the bridge to collapse, resulted in $5 billion
Not even the highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. can confidently support President Trump’s claims that the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is over, let alone that the United States is winning. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
The FBI is conducting loyalty tests to determine who belongs in the bureau’s rank and file, according to the last FBI chief. Brian Driscoll was a decorated FBI agent with 18 years at the agency under his belt before he was offered the bureau’s number two job at the beginning of
Presented by Google Cloud {beacon} It’s Tuesday. Get your summer clothes out of storage. Twenty-two states will feel record heat over the next few days. ☀️ Inflation jumps 3.8 percent Trump’s disapproval hits whopping 70 percent DOJ targets Iran war leaks with journalist
The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI over claims that his conversations with ChatGPT led to an accidental overdose. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sam Nelson's parents allege ChatGPT "encouraged" the teen to "consume a combination of substances that any
I have changed my mind, as I would urge President Trump to do now.
Senator Lindsey Graham blew up Tuesday about Donald Trump’s disastrous negotiations with Iran—and made a move at undermining their mediator. During a meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee regarding the Pentagon’s outrageous $1.5 trillion dollar
The new feature, which is meant to increase security and privacy, isn't available to all iPhone users.
Vice President Vance will visit Maine on Thursday, as the Senate race between incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and likely Democratic nominee Graham Platner rolls on. Vance’s office said Tuesday that the vice president will visit Bangor, the third-most populous city in
Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee Chair Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Trump administration’s tenuous plans to fund key parts of the Pentagon’s $1.5 billion budget request and for alienating U.S. allies amid several
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has begun his testimony against Elon Musk in a high-profile jury trial in a California federal courtroom. Altman, alongside OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is a primary defendant in the trial brought by Musk. Altman, Brockman, and Musk were all part of the
The ongoing renovations to the reflecting pool on the National Mall have emerged as the latest flashpoint in President Trump’s effort to overhaul some of the most recognizable landmarks in the nation’s capital. Trump announced plans to repair and renovate the 2,028-foot
For far too long, the mainstream culture and medical establishment have turned a blind eye.
The Nebraska Senate Democratic primary Tuesday appears tailor-made to confuse voters. There wasn’t even supposed to be a contest, thanks to independent populist Dan Osborn running for the Senate. The Nebraska Democratic Party planned to endorse his candidacy this year due to
The country is a tinder box — and if predictions are correct, as many as 8 million acres are at risk.
Two Democratic Senators on Monday joined Republicans in voting to advance the nomination of Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, backing President Trump’s nominee for chair of the Fed. The upper chamber voted to advance Warsh’s nomination to the Fed's board,
The Wall Street Journal on Monday said it received grand jury subpoenas from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for reporters' records over media leaks connected to the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran. The Journal received those subpoenas on March 4, which referred to reporting
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is introducing a bill on Tuesday that proposes allowing the death penalty for people convicted of distributing fentanyl that results in fatalities, Fox News reported. The bill, the Deal Death, Face Death Act, proposes amending the Controlled Substances
A watchdog group is suing the Trump administration for allegedly using the president’s “Freedom 250” organization as a vehicle to divert funds to his vanity projects without congressional approval. On Tuesday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, filed a
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio came out ahead in new polling about voters’ preferences for the 2028 presidential election. The Atlas National Poll asked Democratic and Republican voters to choose whom they would support in
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that disregards one of two majority-Black voting districts in the state—a decision that one justice predicts will cause “chaos” and “confusion.” All three of the court’s liberal justices dissented
The office of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) went after Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) on Tuesday after the Virginia Republican concurred when a conservative radio host urged Jeffries to get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” Christie Stephenson, a
Congress needs to ban non-disclosure agreements and create an independent investigatory mechanism to address the culture of impunity that allows sexual misconduct, discrimination, and retaliation to go unreported and unpunished.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is warning reporters who receive leaks of classified information about potential investigations, as concerns grow about the federal government's cracking down on media outlets critical of the administration. "Prosecuting leakers who share
The top Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday seemed dubious of plans to fund the Pentagon’s $1.5 billion budget request as Congress waits to receive a supplemental request for tens of billions of dollars to fund the war in Iran. Rep. Ken Calvert
A spokesperson for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is the latest to speak out.
The Democratic Party has more general support than the GOP ahead of the November midterms, according to a new nationwide survey. The Atlas National Poll, released this week, asked U.S. adults to generally pick which political party’s candidate they would support if the midterms
What began as a tool for last-resort truth-telling has turned into a formal market in enforcement leads.
A large majority of U.S. voters disapprove of President Trump's handle on the economy, with many saying they expect a recession next year, according to a new poll. The CNN survey, released this week, shows that 30 percent of respondents approve of Trump's handle on the economy,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will testify before a Senate Appropriations Committee panel on Tuesday morning about the ongoing conflict in Iran and President Trump‘s fiscal 2027 budget request for the Pentagon. Hegseth is also likely
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday asked former JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley to sit for an interview with the panel as part of its probe into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Comer wrote in a letter to Staley,
This is a lightly edited transcript of the May 8 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon. I’m the host of The New Republic show Right Now . I’m joined by two great
The Pentagon has presented yet another nonsensical price tag for Donald Trump’s reckless war in Iran: $29 billion. During a hearing at the House Appropriations Subcommittee Tuesday, Undersecretary of Defense Jules Hurst faced a brutal fact-check on the Pentagon’s supposedly $29
Inflation is surging under President Trump, reaching its highest level in three years thanks to the Iran war, and more Americans than ever don’t trust him on the economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly report Tuesday showing that inflation rose to 3.8
