A bipartisan group of senators have advised against “unilateral changes” in American policy toward Taiwan, with President Trump on a visit to China this week. In a Tuesday letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the senators said they were writing “to reaffirm congressional support for the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and our firm...
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) is planning to call state lawmakers back for a special session next week to take up a new congressional map that would wholly favor Republicans, according to multiple local media reports. Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (R) told reporters on Wednesday that legislative leadership was in the process of...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Wednesday that the state’s immigration detention facility, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” will soon close. “When we opened it in the summer of 2025, it was always intended to be temporary, because we were only doing it, because the federal government didn't have the resources to hold these people themselves,”...
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Wednesday said he will cancel a special session to consider new voting maps for the state's three Supreme Court voting districts. Reeves announced the cancellation while on Supertalk Radio's "Mornings with Richard Cross." He said the decision follows the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Monday to...
The Pentagon reached deals with several defense firms that would allow it to buy more than 10,000 low-cost, containerized missiles over the next three years, the department announced Wednesday. The Pentagon struck new framework agreements with Anduril, CoAspire, Leidos and Zone 5 to launch the Low-Cost Containerized Missiles (LCCM) program. Separately, the Defense Department (DOD)...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s chief spokesperson resigned from the role on Wednesday, citing irreconcilable differences with an effort to advance e-cigarette flavors that could cause children to become addicted. Rich Danker left his role as assistant secretary for public affairs a day after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty...
Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) on Wednesday pressed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on how his department awarded the contract for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation project to Atlantic Industrial Coatings. During Burgum’s appearance before the House Natural Resource Committee on President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request, Neguse asked the Interior secretary if he was “familiar”...
CBP partnered with local law enforcement last Monday to detain a gang-affiliated Mexican national with a violent criminal history including second-degree murder.
South Carolina GOP Gov. Henry McMaster is expected to announce a special session on redistricting, teeing up the state legislature to pass a Republican...
