A libertarian think tank is raising fresh concerns about the renewed push for wealth taxes on the ultra-rich, arguing that countries that tried them mostly backed away -- and for reasons policymakers should remember.
A nun who was taken into immigration custody after being arrested while walking to Mass in her habit last month in Texas pleaded Thursday for people to have the chance to be heard before being taken into custody, saying she was speaking out to help others.
A member of Vice President J.D. Vance's security detail is being investigated over allegations tied to a suspected news leak, the U.S. Secret Service said Thursday.
FETTERMAN on Mamdani's threats toward Netanyahu: "You are a mayor, dude ... You can fix a pothole. You can take out the trash. But you can't order people to arrest anybody, any more than I could have him arrested if he goes to Pennsylvania ... and I know you're angry at Netanyahu because he killed a lot of people you admire, whether, like, it's Sinwar or Nasrallah or [Khamenei] in Iran."
A plumbing subcontractor who says he is owed nearly $4M for work on the Barack Obama Presidential Center has suspended operations and laid off 25 union workers, weeks after the Chicago campus's star-studded opening.
President Trump's "patience is running out" with Senate Republicans and he wants to see real movement on his effort to require voters to show photo identification, his White House spokeswoman said Thursday.
The federal government loses hundreds of billions of dollars a year to fraud, and most of the largest programs that funnel money through states still lack basic assessments of where that fraud will likely strike, according to a congressional watchdog report released Thursday.
Paula White-Cain, director of the White House Faith Office, says 344 million people of faith will be persecuted this year around the globe -- a number she said far outstrips things such as heart attacks and cancer deaths.
Tension is building over the purported relocation of nuclear centrifuges to Iran’s deep bunker complex inside Pickaxe Mountain. Located deep within the Zagros Mountain range, the complex is nearly 300 miles from the northern Persian Gulf. President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the United States would be bombing the complex “pretty soon, very heavily, […]
The U.S. Secret Service on Thursday said it was investigating a member of Vice President Vance's detail for allegedly leaking sensitive information. "A member of the Vice Presidential Protective Division is the subject of an administrative investigation, and potential criminal inquiry, involving allegations of compromising operational and information security," Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday pressed President Trump’s nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding conflicts of interest and the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency. During Brian Johnson’s nomination hearing in front of the Senate Banking Committee, ranking member Warren noted the consumer protection watchdog, under acting director Russell Vought,...
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said Wednesday that Congress has a “culture of creepiness” when it came to members approaching and soliciting staffers. Cammack told MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez that she “wouldn’t feel comfortable sending" her "daughter to work here” in the current congressional environment. Her comments came after Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.) unveiled a resolution that...
President Trump will deliver remarks Thursday afternoon on the White House's plan to expand a voluntary ratepayer protection pledge aimed at shielding consumers from electricity cost increases tied to AI data center growth. The announcement comes as the Ratepayer Protection Act is gaining steam in the House. The legislation, if passed, would require states to...
