Ron Klain, who served as former President Biden's chief of staff, will appear before a House panel investigating Mr. Biden's fading mental acuity while in the White House and any efforts by aides to cover it up and act on his behalf.
New Trump administration rules that give millions of people a shorter timeframe to sign up for the Affordable Care Act's health care coverage are facing a legal challenge from Democratic mayors around the country.
The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited on Tuesday was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.
Republican businessman Nate Morris has declared that Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn't deserve a lifetime achievement award from their home state political party, as the first-time candidate ratchets up his attacks against the former Senate leader he hopes to succeed in next year's election.
Some staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development raced against the moment their computer access would be shut off, before the Trump administration's dismantling of the six-decade-old foreign assistance agency took near-final effect Tuesday.
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Homeland Security from terminating a long-standing deportation amnesty for Haitian migrants, ruling that Secretary Kristi Noem acted in defiance of the law.
The Department of Labor awarded nearly $84 million to 50 states and territories in grants to expand apprenticeship programs, a move that will facilitate President Trump's goal of supporting more than 1 million apprenticeships per year.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) quipped that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was a "cheap date" for voting for President Trump’s giant tax and spending package, seemingly for a tax break for fishermen, during a House Rules Committee hearing on Tuesday. The comment came after Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) asked House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) about a new tax...
Some of the California National Guard troops deployed by President Trump to Los Angeles last month will be released from the deployment to fight wildfires as the state prepares for another fire season. In a statement released Tuesday, U.S. Northern Command (Northcom) said that approximately 150 Guardsmen were released from their federal mission protecting Immigration...
President Trump said on Tuesday evening that Israel has agreed to the “necessary conditions” to “finalize” a 60-day ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip and pushed the Palestinian militant group Hamas to take the deal, warning that it will “not get better.” “My Representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has reportedly apologized to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani over saying he had referred to “global jihad” in the past. A readout that Politico obtained said Mamdani and Gillibrand talked Monday night on a call amid voting on President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” “Gillibrand apologized for mischaracterizing Mamdani’s record...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday inclement weather in Washington, D.C., is “part of the problem” House Republicans are grappling with as they look to fast-track their “big, beautiful bill” through the chamber this week. The House is scheduled to convene at 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday — with a procedural vote shortly after — to kick off the...
A majority of surveyed investors are expecting volatility in the stock market to persist through 2025, according to a new survey that was released on Tuesday. The new Gallup poll found that nearly 3 in 4 surveyed investors, 73 percent, think there will be more stock market turbulence ahead in 2025. Nearly 6 in 10...
