Congress has the opportunity to honor veterans by passing the Take Care of America's Veterans Act, which would improve access to mental health care, increase transparency, and modernize the VA system.
It's one thing to defend a policy. It's another to defend the real-world consequences of that policy when the facts, statistics and human stories are pushing back.
The Trump administration is trying to get rid of the first reparations program in the U.S. for Black Americans. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice asked a judge to end the program in Evanston, Illinois, offering $25,000 to the descendants of the city’s Black residents who
The Pentagon artificial intelligence chief on Monday said Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is tantamount to national security in a sworn statement that noted xAI's technology has been used throughout the Iran war. Cameron Stanley, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer
The Trump administration is now arguing that an alleged thwarted drone attack on the White House UFC event on Sunday was an “assassination plot,” even as charging documents indicate otherwise, in an attempt to convince America that the president really does need that ballroom.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) top lawyer on Tuesday challenged acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to turn toward investigating President Trump, after the governor announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating him and his wife. Legal affairs secretary
Jay Clayton, President Trump's nominee to replace Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, is set to go before senators for his confirmation hearing Wednesday afternoon. Trump announced early Wednesday morning that Republicans were canceling Clayton's confirmation
A woman claimed she was approached by two “recruiters” who were scouting young women at Donald Trump’s Manhattan skyscraper to have sex with him—and also tried to lure her to a party at the home of Jeffrey Epstein. Buried in the Department of Justice’s massive trove of files on
The administration is expected to finalize the proposed changes as soon as this summer.
Congress is finally demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Iran. Senators are threatening to cut off Hegseth’s travel budget until the Pentagon provides more details about the deadly U.S. strike that hit a school full of children on February 28, Politico
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, plans to pursue a psychiatric defense in his state murder trial, a judge revealed Wednesday. New York Judge Gregory Carro said Mangione’s lawyers notified the court they intend to argue the
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.) on Wednesday slammed the deal between the Trump administration and Iran, two days before the two sides are set to sign it. “The details that I’ve seen so far look … awful. This will go down as a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” Cassidy told
The American experiment has endured wars, depressions and constitutional crises, but the current moment has degraded the government and the services it provides, politicized the nonpartisan, merit-based civil service and undermined the rule of law, and it is important to look
During his Wednesday confirmation hearing, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator nominee Cameron Hamilton sought to toe the line between restoring order after a turbulent year at the agency and President Trump’s desire to scale down federal disaster aid.
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Without reform, emergency practices will remain financially fragile and expose patients to preventable risk.
CBS has reached a licensing agreement with the music company that owns the famed "Peanuts" song used by late-night host Stephen Colbert during his final show last month, with the funds set to go to charity. During his last "Late Show" on CBS, Colbert made a joke about the music
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Tuesday his conference does not have enough votes to bypass the filibuster to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. “The only way you can get … this done is to nuke the legislative filibuster, and that
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that leaving the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France without holding a bilateral meeting with President Trump was not a snub. "I wouldn't take a big message from that," Carney said. "I had seven or eight discussions with
The Department of Defense revealed it used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran. In a sworn statement in federal court, the DOD’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, Cameron Stanley, defended the chatbot’s existence as a “a matter of paramount
Bessent is arguing for something Washington has spent decades avoiding: a serious American industrial policy.
The Trump administration spent nearly $15 million to rid the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool of algae. They were not successful. Within days of the pool’s refilling, the green algae hasn’t just returned but is having a “field day” thanks to high phosphate levels in the water,
President Trump appears to be completely smitten with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, professing his love for the authoritarian leader at the G7 summit in France on Wednesday. “I met him early in the campaign when Crooked Hillary and I were running against each other,
The U.S. military on Tuesday struck another boat it claimed was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two survivors. U.S. Southern Command announced the strike on social platform X, claiming that the vessel was “transiting along known
Donald Trump lashed out at former President Barack Obama as everyone turned on Trump’s peace deal with Iran. Speaking at the G7 summit Wednesday, Trump desperately tried to make his peace deal seem better than Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “He tried to bribe his
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Tuesday said he wouldn’t rule out a White House bid after nearly a decade in the upper chamber. His second term is set to end in January 2029. “I'm planning on running for the United States Senate. But if you're asking me what if a lot of people
Millions of Cubans are being forced to leave their home due to the economic crisis caused by U.S. sanctions and the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a new migration crisis.
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The president just scrambled the last week of negotiations in Congress to abet his dead voter ID bill. Donald Trump cancelled the Senate confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton via a Truth Social post Wednesday, just hours before it was set to take place. Trump had tapped Clayton
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will close to airline traffic on July 4 after noon, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) said Tuesday. The MWAA cited aerial rehearsals, performances and fireworks that evening in restricting inbound and outbound
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) says she does “not regret” her vote to confirm conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018, but she says she is “disappointed” that he ruled with the conservative majority in 2022 to overturn the constitutional right to an
City Council member Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist, holds a sizable lead in the high-stakes Washington, D.C., Democratic primary to replace retiring Mayor Muriel Bowser (D). The latest results from Tuesday’s election show Lewis George with almost 53 percent of the
Vice President Vance on Tuesday said it was “kind of ironic” that GOP critics of the Iran deal don’t want the war “stopped,” as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle raise questions about the details of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed over the weekend. Senators
Joy Behar, a co-host of “The View” who has been a staunch critic of President Trump, on Tuesday said she doesn’t think Vice President Vance is a “bad guy” and said a face off between him and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in 2028 would be “interesting.” “Truthfully, as I said
The Group of Seven (G7) leaders issued a declaration of support for President Trump’s agreement to end the Iran war amid the allied nations' summit in France this week. The alliance, which includes France, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States and
For the Deep South, Phillip Ensler is a highly unusual candidate.
Socialism, in practice, does not work without force and brutality, even if you give it nice adjectives like "democratic." My family learned this the hard way.
The Justice Department is seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging a Chicago suburb’s housing reparations program for Black residents, arguing it is “racially discriminatory” and unconstitutional. The city council in Evanston, Ill., earmarked $10 million in revenue
White House officials are trying to claim that a leaked draft of the peace agreement between Iran and the U.S. isn’t real. CNN reported Wednesday that the deal consists of a 14-point memorandum of understanding, which it obtained from a U.S. official. The points include the
President Trump will hold a press conference Wednesday before departing France, where he has been attending the G7 summit this week. Trump will face questions about the memorandum of understanding (MOU) to end the Iran war, a 14-point plan that is facing intense pushback from
President Trump has said the text of his agreement to end the Iran war won’t be released until it’s signed in person by Washington and Tehran on Friday. But outlets including Bloomberg and CNN say they have obtained the 14-point memorandum of understanding (MOU). White House
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney commended the framework agreement recently struck between the U.S. and Iran, which sets the stage to end the months-long conflict between these two nations. In a conversation with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during the G7 Summit in France on
Vice President Vance said Tuesday that the Trump administration has not yet released the text of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Washington and Tehran because of ongoing diplomatic sensitivities involving Iran and the countries helping mediate the talks. Speaking
The U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding has been signed, but the text remains invisible to the public, leading to competing interpretations of its meaning from Washington, Tehran, Jerusalem, and Beirut.
President Trump is threatening to drop “bombs on their head” if Iran doesn’t abide by the guidelines established in their memorandum of understanding, which has still not been publicly released. The president made the hawkish comments while touting the agreement at the G7
Vice President Vance late Tuesday said the alleged plot to attack lawmakers at the White House UFC match was “not that advanced” noting that the suspects “weren’t in town” during the event, which drew thousands of spectators. “There was a lot of security there. And it turns
All the relevant authorities dealing with security issues have reinforced the new strategy against drug cartels.
President Trump is addressing the Group of Seven (G7) summit, the Iran deal and more at a press conference Wednesday in France. Earlier, Trump cautioned that the preliminary deal with Iran isn't yet final, and the U.S. could "resume strikes" if needed. “No, it’s not final. It’s
President Trump said on Wednesday that people can decide to invest in Iran while dismissing reports that the preliminary deal between Washington and Tehran includes a $300 billion fund for Iran as “false.” “We’re not investing. We’re not putting up 10 cents,” Trump told
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