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House Dems hand GOP a win on trans sports as party unity cracks

Five House Democrats broke with their party to vote with Republicans on a transgender sports amendment to the NDAA targeting military schools.

Clarence Thomas’ constitutional argument against federal gun law gets first major court test

The Fifth Circuit will rehear a felon-in-possession case after Justice Clarence Thomas questioned Congress' Commerce Clause authority over gun possession.

Reporter’s Notebook: House’s final sprint puts SAVE America Act and Iran funding in play

The House races to pass a stopgap spending bill, advance the SAVE America Act through budget reconciliation, and vote on a stock trading ban.

New Jersey Dem gov’s blame game backfires after tech company pins noncitizen voter registration on state

Gov. Mikie Sherrill says about 400 noncitizens cast ballots due to a Motor Vehicle Commission software glitch, sparking a political backlash.

House panel subpoenas 3 left-wing groups in probe of $39M tied to Marxist tycoon Neville Singham

The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed The People's Forum, BreakThrough News and Tricontinental after all three failed to produce a single document.

Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.

President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.

Retired US Navy admiral on Iran moves: ‘Watch the Suez Canal’

Retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis on Sunday warned that the U.S. should watch Iran’s actions in the Suez Canal. “It’s got more traffic flowing through it than the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranians are beginning to make noises about attempting to close that, using the Houthis in the southwest corner,” Stavridis told CNN’s...

‘Rare’ La Niña may form in the Atlantic at the same time as this year’s ‘super’ El Niño

While conditions are heating up for a "super" El Niño in the Pacific, the inverse may be happening in the Atlantic.

My client lost her life savings to a romance scammer. Then she got a tax bill.

As Congress considers how to respond to AI-enabled fraud, it should also revisit a tax code that treats victims differently depending on whether they were manipulated with promises of wealth or promises of love. 

The best human landing system is the one that can beat China to the moon

The problem is that NASA has been given two tasks concerning the moon that may be in conflict.

Fetterman rips Sanders over Platner, El-Sayed endorsements

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has increasingly bucked his party in recent years, went after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for his endorsements of former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and current Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. On Saturday, Sanders held a rally alongside El-Sayed and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in Detroit. Both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez,...

Trump calls for Congress to add Iran to Russia sanctions bill in Graham’s honor

President Trump on Sunday called on Congress to add Iran to a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill to honor the bill's late author, former Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The bill, first introduced in April 2025, has seen recent momentum after having been stalled in Congress while Trump seeks to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin to...

Live updates: Iran war rages after US soldiers killed; Trump to attend World Cup Final

The reignited Iran war is raging after the U.S. military launched retaliatory attacks Saturday in response to Iranian strikes that saw two service members killed in Jordan. President Trump called the deaths "a very sad thing," saying "they were in service of our country." Meanwhile, the president's Thursday primetime speech — when he revisited his...

Trump on US service members killed in Jordan: ‘It’s a very sad thing’

President Trump on Saturday said the deaths of U.S. service members in Jordan is “a very sad thing.” “We hate to see it happen. They were in service of our country. And they, every one of them will never allow, they’ll fight to the death. But never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon," Trump...

Tying laws to specific cases can do more harm than good

Victims’ stories can sometimes illuminate policy failures and inspire meaningful reforms. But compelling stories are no substitute for careful, non-partisan analysis. 

Jon Ossoff, amid presidential chatter, hits Trump over elections

Sen. Jon Ossoff is going on offense against President Trump, emerging as one of the Democratic Party’s most aggressive critics on elections — an issue that hits close to home for the Georgia Democrat. Ossoff won his seat in the Senate in a runoff election held on Jan. 5, 2021 — a day before the...

Hegseth’s testosterone mandate carries risks, raises questions

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth kicked a hornet’s nest with his move this week to test troops’ testosterone levels. Hegseth argues the effort, to become part of the military’s periodic health assessment for troops over 30, will ensure the optimal performance and long-term health of warfighters. But medical experts say Hegseth's rationale for the directive isn't...

Divide grows between AI employees and executives over policy battles

Tech employees in Silicon Valley are increasingly finding themselves at odds with industry executives, who are spending millions to push for light-touch AI regulation. The latest disagreement is playing out in a new political spending fight between OpenAI’s rank-and-file employees and the firm’s co-founder and president Greg Brockman. A group of current and former OpenAI...

Taylor Farms expands lettuce recall to 27 states

Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce that was distributed to 27 states after federal health officials linked the lettuce from its supplier in central Mexico to the spread of an “explosive diarrhea” parasite. Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked shredded iceberg lettuce from a single...

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