Two years ago, a champagne cork went flying on the Federalist Society convention stage as panelists toasted recent Supreme Court wins. A celebratory mood was still on display at this year’s annual gathering of the conservative legal movement, but those feelings were mixed with shock from Democrats' midterm victories. "On election night, there was a congressman...
GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) called on his party's congressional leadership — House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.) to "step up to the daggum plate" Saturday morning, urging the pair to pass legislation funding air travel infrastructure updates in light of Friday's nationwide ground stop. “We know that it...
Microsoft confirmed its services are fully restored as of Saturday after the tech company faced a massive global outage impacting its platforms earlier in the week. “We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,” the company wrote in a post...
Italy announced Saturday it is handing Meta an $887 million fine for using photos and videos from Android users’ Facebook galleries without specific consent. Investigators found Facebook had enabled a “get suggestions from gallery when browsing” feature by default and requested access to users' personal photo library through a single permission notice, according to a...
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) called on Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s Commerce secretary, to step down over reports the cabinet member shielded Nvidia from federal oversight — accusations which emerged after the tech giant's CEO resigned this week. Jensen Huang stepped down from Nvidia's chief role Thursday after claims came to light of his reported...
President Trump announced plans to pursue legislation to boost the U.S. film industry alongside a group of Republican and Democratic senators, a show of bipartisanship as his party prepares to hand over both chambers of Congress in January. The president said Friday he will cooperate on the legislation with Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.), Raphael...
Recent midterm elections resulted in a significant rebuke of the Trump administration, prompting criticism of unfulfilled campaign promises from both former allies like Tucker Carlson and Vice President JD Vance.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there is no need for an investigation into the ground stop issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday, instead highlighting the need for “investment.” “We don’t really need any investigation … we need further investment,” Johnson said during an interview with Fox News’s Saturday in America. “I...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) hinted that he could leave the Democratic Party if Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is elected as the Senate Majority Leader. “Yeah, absolutely, it would be troubling if my caucus elects someone like Van Hollen that has really made his name being very anti … hostile to Israel,” Fetterman said when...
U.S. District Judge Sanket J. Bulsara booted a Justice Department lawyer from being able to argue in a case over ICE arrests in New York, saying he believes Thomas Price violated a key rule of court procedure with a recent filing in the case.
