Vice President J.D. Vance said Monday that President Trump is not banning media outlets, saying the three outlets barred from the White House campus can still report but will no longer have special access to deliver propaganda.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Sunday that Democrats have taken “the federal government as a hostage” amid tension over a looming government shutdown. “Thirteen different times, we did continuing resolutions in the Democratic majority. And in every case, they passed,” Thune told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.” “And what...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Sunday that there are “many things” for which former FBI Director James Comey could have faced charges, but said the statute of limitations had expired on those other allegations. “It's a very important principle for us to apply that everybody has to subscribe to the law, even a former...
If MAHA and MAGA were serious about improving the health of Americans, they would stop gaslighting the public and start standing up to the corporations making us sick.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) insisted on Sunday that there is “nothing partisan” about the Republican bill to keep the government funded ahead of the shutdown deadline this Wednesday. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the GOP leader pushed back on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-N.Y.) suggestion this past week that the...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said the chance of a looming government shutdown “depends on the Republicans.” “You think you can keep the government open, or you think you’re headed for a shutdown?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Schumer on “Meet the Press.” “Well, it depends on the Republicans. You know, we...
The Pell Grant – a need-based higher education grant from the U.S. Department of Education that, unlike a loan, does not need to be repaid – lies at the heart of the federal financial aid system.
KIlmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national mistakenly deported but returned to the U.S. to face unrelated charges, was transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Phillipsburg, Pa., according to court records. Abrego Garcia was transferred on Friday from the Farmville Detention Center in Virginia to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania...
Russia targeted Ukraine in a massive drone and missile attack on Sunday, killing at least four people in Kyiv and wounding dozens more days after President Trump said Ukraine could win the war against Moscow. The overnight attack lasted more than 12 hours and primarily targeted Kyiv and the nearby region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...
Support for affirmative action has waxed and waned since the 1960s. In the ensuing decades, however, opposition grew, as the practice became increasingly associated with preferential treatment, quotas and set-asides.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) told President Trump that troops are not welcome in Portland, Ore., after the president announced on Saturday he is sending reinforcements to protect the city and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities that he said are “under siege.” The senior senator from Oregon pushed back on that assertion and posted...
Media outlets and organizations are preparing for a battle over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new rules restricting press access at the Pentagon. Legal experts and media advocates say the new policy appears to mark an unprecedented attack on press freedom, pointing to a provision that restricts the release of even unclassified information. The Pentagon says...
