Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued ActBlue, alleging that the major Democratic Party fundraising platform misled Congress and the public about its donation processes. “ActBlue lied to Congress and to the American people, and I will ensure justice is served. It has
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking to remake an influential but little-known task force that determines what preventive medical services insurers must cover for free. The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday issued a call for nominations to the
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) resigned from Congress on Tuesday amid allegations of financial misconduct that could have led to her expulsion later in the week. The stunning announcement came just moments before the House Ethics Committee was scheduled to meet to
The Florida Republican said he’s trying to resolve an issue for a home-state shipbuilder.
When you start seeing this kind of turnover, and these kinds of accusations bring hurled, it raises questions about stability inside the administration.
Cherfilus-McCormick was facing numerous charges and bipartisan calls for resignation.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday afternoon on the department's fiscal 2027 budget request. Kennedy has faced questioning over leadership changes, updates to the childhood vaccine
government that are held by the right and the left. But I do draw the line at referring to Jew as demons and praising Hamas and Hezbollah. In previous, deleted tweets, Makled retweeted a post by Candace Owens that said the people of Israel “lie, steal, cheat, murder and
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said the Trump administration’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz have had a grave impact on energy markets. “The administration has a big problem right now because they have created an energy apocalypse in the Strait of Hormuz, which is impacting
The House Ethics Committee will hold a public hearing Tuesday centered on Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick's (D-Fla.) fraud violations and potential sanctions. Earlier this year, the committee found "substantial reason to believe" Cherfilus-McCormick violated several laws,
The Pentagon on Tuesday denied a report by shipping journal Lloyd's List of 26 Iranian ships bypassing the U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz to export Iranian cargo to countries across the globe. The London-based firm, which offers intelligence services to shipping
The Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act (KIDS Act) is a federal bill that aims to protect minors online by requiring tech companies to take meaningful steps to prevent harm, provide parental controls, and address the risks associated with AI chatbots.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday filed a civil complaint against the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) over the sewage spill into the Potomac River, which was named the largest wastewater spill in
President Trump's $1.5 trillion defense budget request includes a new “presidential priorities” category, earmarking $750 billion for the likes of the Golden Dome missile defense system, drones, artificial intelligence and building up the defense industrial base, Pentagon
It's nearly May, which means a new round of Social Security benefits will soon be disbursed.
Job satisfaction has shrunk to a new low in the U.S., according to a recent report released by the New York Federal Reserve on Tuesday. Workers reported the lowest likelihood of moving to a new employer in five years, falling to 9.7 percent. Reported satisfaction with job pay,
The American nuclear arsenal is on a virtual hair-trigger, ready to launch within minutes of warning of an attack or in retaliation for an attack. The trigger is the so-called “nuclear football,” a briefcase of attack plans and codes carried by a military officer who is never
President Trump on Monday praised Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) for the lawmaker's effort to expunge his 2019 impeachment over allegations of an illegal quid-pro-quo with Ukraine's leader. Scott introduced a resolution expressing that Trump’s impeachment trial lacked “legitimacy”
The Winston-Salem Police Department is investigating a mass shooting that claimed the lives of two teens and left another five teens injured on Monday morning.
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San Diego State University (SDSU) on Monday agreed to a Title IX settlement after it was accused of giving less scholarship money to female athletes compared to male ones. The university has agreed to pay $300,000 for almost 800 female former athletes to split. The payout
Kevin Warsh, the man Donald Trump tapped to run the Federal Reserve, told Congress Tuesday that there’s only one detail that he and the president disagree on. In the midst of a heated exchange with Senator Elizabeth Warren over his previous pledges to “stand up to Trump,” Warsh
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said FBI Director Kash Patel is “next” following the recent departures from President Trump’s cabinet. “The reality is that this cabinet’s out of control incompetence and corruption have made it the worst cabinet since 1776, and Kash Patel is next,”
The stakes are high for every American but nowhere are these pressures more evident than in rural communities.
President Trump is one of several Republicans participating in the marathon reading of the Bible.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said Tuesday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will “be held accountable to the fullest extent” if it is discovered that she was involved in or benefited from “any fraud.” His remarks follow a Wall Street Journal report that a financial
House Republican leaders are resisting calls to bring up a bipartisan Senate bill to fund the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until after passage of a “skinny” bill to fund immigration enforcement — despite grumbles in the Senate GOP and pressure from the
The Onion says it has reached a new deal to take over Infowars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
King Charles III will become the second British monarch to address a joint session of Congress next week — following his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who did so in 1991.
Polls are open in Virginia for voters to weigh in on a constitutional amendment to Virginia's redistricting process.
Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, declined to say Tuesday whether former President Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election. When asked by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, whether
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Tuesday doubled down on his call for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to end its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to clear a path for Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee to lead the central bank, to be confirmed by the
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton on Monday accused President Trump of being "afraid" of making a bad deal with Iran as the end of the two-week ceasefire approaches "because he'll look like" former President Obama. Bolton told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not speak to President Trump about nominating Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he told lawmakers Tuesday. Kennedy told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that he met with Schwartz on
The question isn't whether to build. It's whether we can build in a way that people will actually stand behind.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) unveiled a budget resolution Tuesday that would fully fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for three and a half years, through the end of President Trump’s time in office.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, tried to dodge questions Tuesday about his financial ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Warsh
Pakistan is urging the U.S. and Iran to consider extending a temporary ceasefire, ahead of its expiration on Wednesday evening. The country’s office of foreign affairs recapped a Tuesday meeting between Pakistani Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar and U.S. Deputy
A top Democrat says he isn't participating in conversations with Republican leaders at this time.
Pope Leo XIV has been butting heads with Trump and the GOP over their use of Christianity to justify war and their mistreatment of immigrants, calling for an end to the conflict and advocating for grace, charity and forgiveness.
President Trump has reportedly boasted that he will issue pre-emptive presidential pardons to hundreds, if not thousands, of administration staff and officials, which could raise questions about the potential for abuse of the Pardons Clause and the potential for unethical or
The Pentagon is ending mandatory flu vaccines for service members, phrasing the change as giving troops “medical autonomy” and “freedom to express their religious convictions,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday. “Our new policy is simple. If you, an American
President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday it would’ve taken him just five months to end a war he refused to fight in. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box , Trump bragged about how quickly he ended the war in Iran—shortly after threatening to resume attacks if things don’t go his way in
Senate Republicans are expected to adopt the budget resolution later this week.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced Tuesday that it is under investigation by the Department of Justice, a move that comes after the Trump administration has repeatedly admonished the civil rights group. SPLC’s interim CEO Bryan Fair said the group does not have
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn’t think soldiers living and fighting together in close quarters or aboard warships need to take the flu vaccine. “Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said late Monday that he would “not be surprised” if foreign adversaries were responsible for the mysterious deaths and disappearances of nearly a dozen American scientists over the past few years. “I would
President Trump on Tuesday urged Iran not to execute eight women accused of crimes against the Islamic Republic amid ceasefire talks in Islamabad, Pakistan. “To the Iranian leaders, who will soon be in negotiations with my representatives: I would greatly appreciate the
Iran is not Venezuela and treating it as such is a naïve and dangerous miscalculation.