It may come as cold comfort to the White House, but Trump's underwater approval ratings echo a pattern seen with Biden, Obama and Bush before midterms.
The Supreme Court temporarily restored access to the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies, blocking an appeals court ruling.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the Trump administration is preparing to sue the New York Times over discrimination allegations, the Times reported, a suit it suggested was driven by politics. The potential lawsuit was sparked by a complaint from a white male employee who alleges he was not given a promotion due to...
House Oversight Democrats are raising questions about a number of unusual aspects agreed to by the panel's Republicans for a slated deposition with former Attorney General Pam Bondi, including whether she will be under oath and video taped. The letter also indicates Bondi would be represented by Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general...
Justice Samuel Alito on Monday briefly halted a ruling that would prevent mifepristone, the common abortion pill, from being prescribed without an in-person doctor visit. Alito’s pause will last for one week as the Supreme Court considers the case. It does not necessarily reflect the court’s thinking. Drug manufacturers filed an emergency appeal at the high court over the weekend after the U.S. Court of...
Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) on Sunday backed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) after President Trump said Jeffries should be impeached for criticizing the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act. On Wednesday, a 6-3 majority of justices struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district. “He is a president that’s drowning in his dismal poll numbers and...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is calling on the House and White House to follow the Senate’s lead and ban government officials from placing bets on prediction markets, which he says poses a serious national security risk. The Democratic leader noted that 16 accounts made more than $100,000 each by correctly predicting a U.S....
Spirit Airlines said Sunday that most of its customers had received refunds for their flights after the airline’s shutdown. The airline told Reuters it was close to finishing passengers’ refunds in the wake of ending operations. On Saturday, Spirit announced that it shut down after failing to come to a deal for a government bailout....
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) on Monday dismissed a claim from Iranian state media that a U.S. warship was hit by Iranian missiles. “CLAIM: Iranian state media claims that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hit a U.S. warship with two missiles,” Centcom said in a post on the social platform X early Monday morning. “TRUTH: No...
As policymakers reconsider the scope of birthright citizenship, Puerto Rico exemplifies how territorial ambiguity can obscure constitutional lines and complicate national policy.
