Republican Matt Van Epps defeats Democrat Aftyn Behn in Tennessee's 7th district special election, keeping GOP seat in red district Trump won by 22 points.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday sharply criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for defending a second military strike on survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat in September, after the secretary first dismissed the bombshell report as “fake news.” In remarks to reporters at the Capitol, the libertarian senator said Hegseth...
Gene Simmons, the lead singer of KISS, will testify before a Senate panel next week on legislation to require radio corporations to pay performers for playing their music, the musicFIRST Coalition announced on Tuesday. Simmons will testify on the American Music Fairness Act before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property on Dec. 9, two...
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday pushed for “dialogue” between the United States and Venezuela amid recent tension between the two countries. “The signals coming from the United States change, and so we must see. … On the one hand, it seems there has been a telephone conversation between the two presidents; on the other hand,...
Ninety former House members signed a letter calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to pass legislation prohibiting members of Congress and their families from owning or trading individual stocks. In a letter, published Tuesday, the former elected officials urged the top Republican and Democrat in the House to...
Top House Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of scapegoating a Navy admiral to deflect blame for potential war crimes. The Democrats contend the White House decision to single out Adm. Frank Bradley as the person who ordered a “double-tap” strike against suspected drug runners in the Caribbean is part of a broader pattern of...
ESPN's Paul Finebaum says he will not run to replace Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) in the Senate, ending months of speculation that the sports media personality could make a foray into politics. “I have been deeply moved by so many people in Alabama who have reached out encouraging me to run for the United States...
Related video: DC Bureau: Immigration Changes after National Guard Shooting The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., killing one of them, has been formally charged with offenses including murder and assault, court filings show. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was charged Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court with counts stemming from last week’s attack on two members of the...
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot close to the White House last week, sparking outrage from the political right and a crackdown on immigration from the Trump administration. The suspect allegedly behind the shooting, Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the wake of U.S. Army Spc....
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said that President Trump’s controversial decision to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence for conspiring to import cocaine, sends a “horrible message.” Tillis, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Trump’s pardon of Hernandez, who was convicted in June of 2024 of conspiring...
