Public trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is declining and has fallen to its lowest point since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new poll released Thursday from KFF. The findings reflect the toll taken by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s significant changes in federal vaccine policy, such...
Sen. Cynthia Lummis is demanding answers from the FBI on whether she faced further surveillance after revelations that ex–Special Counsel Jack Smith tracked her phone calls.
It’s been five years since the nation was terrorized by Antifa militants rioting, attacking cops, throwing Molotov cocktails, setting streets ablaze, breaking shop windows,...
A prominent gun control organization's website has pulled down its endorsement page for Jay Jones, the embattled Virginia Democratic candidate for attorney general. The site scrubbing comes in the midst of fallout over text messages Mr. Jones sent about fatally shooting a Republican former colleague and his children.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to the "first phase" of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
President Trump said Wednesday that he would take steps to declare Antifa a foreign terrorist organization after hearing from journalists who say they were battered while covering the organization.
Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter gained a reputation on Capitol Hill for grilling corporate executives at House hearings, white board in hand. But it was Porter - now a candidate for California governor - who found herself growing edgy under questioning by a TV reporter, and even threatening to walk out.
The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce on Wednesday as part of the ongoing government shutdown, according to an updated contingency plan posted to its website. Most IRS operations are closed, the agency said in a separate letter to its workers.
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins has not missed a vote since she joined the Senate in 1997, and on Wednesday became the first senator to cast 9,750 roll call votes without missing any in her career.
Republican Senators sunk a measure to halt the U.S. military’s strikes against alleged boats off the coast of Venezuela that President Trump’s administration argues are smuggling drugs into the country. The resolution, spearheaded by Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Tim Kaine (Va.), failed to pass in a 48-51 vote on Wednesday. The measure would have stopped...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) did not give a clear answer on whether he would vote for Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones following leaked text messages in which he openly talks about violence directed toward former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R). “Would you vote for him if you lived in Virginia?” Beshear,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday went after President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), claiming a lack of support on wildfires in the Los Angeles area earlier this year. “What I do say, is that we need to really, now — I think — call out why the president of the United...
