Supreme Court justices face major constitutional questions about presidential authority as Trump administration appeals reach the high court for final review this term.
Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Bad Bunny on Saturday night poked fun at the backlash he has received from conservatives since being announced as this NFL season's Super Bowl halftime show performer. The award-winning artist, hosting NBC's "Saturday Night Live" for the second time, said during his opening monologue that he is "very happy" to be Super...
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller railed against a Saturday ruling that temporarily blocked President Trump’s attempts to deploy 200 National Guard soldiers to Portland, Ore. “Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge … ,” Miller, an architect of many Trump administration immigration policies, wrote...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Democrats will caucus virtually on Monday after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent his colleagues home for the next week amid the government shutdown. “People will die. If the Affordable Care Act tax credits are not renewed in short order, millions will lose their healthcare coverage, and the...
A new poll shows most Americans say they believe the government shutdown will last for two weeks or less, as Congress grapples with the public fallout from the first shutdown in about six years. The YouGov survey, published on Friday, found that 41 percent of Americans think the federal closure will last for two weeks...
Virginia's Republican leaders tore into Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones after texts surfaced showing he wished death on a rival and his children.
Immigration rights groups successfully challenged the Trump administration's plan to send migrant children to adult detention facilities upon turning 18 years old.
This week’s unprecedented gathering of senior military leaders at Quantico has been met with the predictable chorus of cynicism. Critics are calling it a waste of time and money, a political show without substance. They are wrong. There were no sweeping strategic announcements, no new doctrines unveiled, no grand reorganization plans revealed. That is precisely the […]
A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked President Trump’s deployment of 200 National Guard members to Portland, Ore. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut granted Oregon and Portland officials’ request for a temporary restraining order, barring implementation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s memo that authorized federalizing the troops over the state’s objection. “This is a nation...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Saturday said the Trump administration will federalize the state’s National Guard to aid in law enforcement efforts in Chicago and elsewhere in The Prairie State. “This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and...
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said the Trump administration gave him an "ultimatum" of calling up his troops or have National Guard members nationalized.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Trump administration policy to keep migrant children in detention after they turn 18, moving quickly to stop transfers to adult facilities that advocates said were scheduled for this weekend.
