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Melania Trump adviser turns up the heat on Kimmel after ‘expectant widow’ fallout

Melania Trump adviser Marc Beckman calls for advertisers to drop Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show, saying ABC should cut ties with him.

Senate quietly bans lawmakers from betting on prediction markets

Senators can no longer bet on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket after the Senate unanimously passed new rules banning insider wagering.

Trump announces ‘Project Freedom,’ Iran threatens attacks, Pakistan announces US release of seized cargo ship

Trump announces "Project Freedom" to help ships escape the Strait of Hormuz amid U.S.-Iran tensions, but Iran threatens attacks.

California leaders mum on $1B high-speed rail detour aimed at preserving disgraced labor leader’s memorial

California's hundred-billion dollar high-speed rail project is facing scrutiny for a $1 billion detour meant to preserve the gravesite of disgraced labor leader Cesar Chavez.

State Department fires back at accusations of ‘empty planes’ rescuing Americans from conflict zones

Grey Bull Rescue founder Bryan Stern is contesting State Department claims that every American who sought evacuation help during the U.S.-Iran conflict got it.

PGA Tour warms back up to Trump after long freeze

The PGA Tour returned to President Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Fla., over the weekend, ending a decade-long absence and signaling a new era of warmer relations between the president's sprawling resort business and the world's most popular golf league. The tournament came as LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed and Trump-allied rival tour, appears on the...

Republicans see GOP dysfunction as major liability ahead of midterms

Senate Republicans say the dysfunction in the House is becoming a liability for the broader GOP brand ahead of this year’s midterm elections, warning that if Congress can’t break through legislative gridlock the party’s candidates will pay a severe political price in November. Republican senators were dumbfounded by their House brethren’s refusal to pass a...

Crypto fight at center of FISA extension poised to escalate

A bid by hard-line conservatives to pass a measure banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) fell short, but the fight is only poised to escalate as both chambers revisit another extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance powers in the weeks ahead. Conservatives have long sought...

Duffy: Energy prices will drop ‘once the Strait opens’

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that energy prices will go down after the Strait of Hormuz, which has been closed amid the U.S. conflict against Iran, is opened again. “Well, listen, so I'm at [the Department of Transportation (DOT)], I'm not in the energy sector. But, from all the briefings I've had, once the...

NTSB to investigate United plane that struck pole on NJ Turnpike

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Sunday said it will investigate a United Airlines plane that struck a pole on the New Jersey Turnpike. “The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into Sunday’s incident involving United Airlines Flight 169, a Boeing 767-400 operating from Venice to Newark, which struck a light pole...

Trump goes after Jeffries after Supreme Court voting rights comments: ‘Isn’t he subject to Impeachment?’

President Trump went after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) over a comment he made following a recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act. “Hakeem Jeffries, a Low IQ individual, said our Supreme Court is ‘illegitimate.’ After saying such a thing, isn’t he subject to Impeachment? I got impeached for A PERFECT PHONE...

Giuliani hospitalized in critical but stable condition

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) has been hospitalized but is in stable condition, a spokesperson told The Hill on Sunday. "Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition. Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength,...

Preservation group asks judge to block reported Trump’s planned renovation of East Potomac Golf Course

A preservation watchdog group asked a federal judge Sunday to block the Trump administration from going ahead with reported plans to close East Potomac Golf Links for renovations. NOTUS reported Friday that landscaping, deferred maintenance and tree-clearing work would begin on Monday at the course, located on Hains Point outside of Washington, D.C. The course...

Trump says US will help free ships in Strait of Hormuz

President Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will assist in freeing ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for the oil industry, which has been closed during the conflict with Iran. “Countries from all over the World, almost all of which are not involved in the Middle Eastern dispute going on so visibly,...

Trump attends PGA Tour event at his Doral golf resort

President Trump arrived at his Doral golf resort on Sunday, as the PGA Tour returned to the venue for the first time since 2016.  The president was caught on camera in a spectator suite during the Golf Channel broadcast of the final round of the Cadillac Championship. He was joined by his son, Eric Trump,...

Democrats seize on MAHA’s growing frustration with GOP 

Democrats see an opening ahead of the midterm elections with increasingly disappointed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) voters.  Many activists in the MAHA base are furious with the Trump administration over its backing of a controversial weed killer and pesticides more broadly. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defense of those moves...

Top Armed Services Democrat on Iran war’s 60-day clock: No ‘timeouts’

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that there are no “timeouts” when it comes to the 60-day War Powers Act deadline. “The language of the statutes — is, does not provide for timeouts like in a football game. From the day you begin — 60 days...

House Democrat says Germany troop withdrawal ‘no way to run a foreign policy’ 

Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Sunday criticized the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany following a public spat with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Last week, the German chancellor had said that Washington was being “humiliated” by Iran amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in remarks condemned by Trump. Crow said,...

Alert issued for pizza, pork rinds sold nationwide over salmonella risk

Federal authorities say additional impacted items may be identified.

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