The U.S. ended production of the penny Wednesday, abandoning the 1-cent coins that were embedded in American culture for more than 230 years as symbols of frugality and the price of a person's thoughts but had become nearly worthless.
California plans to revoke 17,000 commercial driver's licenses given to immigrants after the Trump administration raised concerns about people in the country illegally receiving licenses to drive a semitruck or a bus. But Gov. Gavin Newsom said that isn't the reason.
Hundreds of people who have been arrested and detained in the Chicago area during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown could soon be released on bond while they await immigration hearings, a federal judge signaled Wednesday.
House Republicans are planning to fast-track a vote next week to repeal a provision in the spending deal they're about to pass that would give eight GOP senators whose phone records were secretly disclosed the ability to recover half a million dollars in damages.
President Trump is ready to propose a new healthcare policy when the government reopens to replace the "broken" Obamacare system Democrats created, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday.
Newly sworn-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday added her name to a discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein case files, becoming the final signature needed to ensure House action.
Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well-suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore. Case in point, one of the most successful public policies in […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is trying to set himself up for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, embracing every left-wing activist issue he thinks will play well. That includes climate change, no matter how contradictory or pointless his climate grandstanding really is. Newsom jetted down to Brazil for a climate conference that is more than 5,000 […]
Billionaire and noted climate activist Bill Gates made headlines last month when he released a piece seemingly rejecting his prior stances on global warming. In the memo, which was titled “Three tough truths about climate,” Gates declared that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that “the doomsday outlook is causing much of the […]
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House lawmakers released more than 20,000 pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday — and they include communications between the convicted sex...
Watchdog group Open The Books reveals taxpayers spend $1B daily on federal salaries, raising new questions about Washington’s spending priorities amid the ongoing government shutdown.
