Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley emerged as the more moderate alternative to democratic socialist Francesca Hong, but his record includes racial-equity budgeting, net-zero climate goals and more.
The White House quickly named a new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out Director Susan Monarez this week. Jim O'Neill, a senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official with deep ties to President Trump donor Peter Thiel,...
French President Emmanuel Macron issued a reminder Friday of President Trump's deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "If that doesn't happen by Monday, the deadline set by President Trump, it means that once again President Putin played President Trump," Macron said Friday during a joint press conference...
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) has called for a special session for the state Legislature to address redistricting, queuing it up to potentially be the next state to redraw its congressional district lines. Kehoe announced his decision Friday in a release, saying the Legislature will convene Wednesday and unveil his map proposal. As expected, the...
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Trump’s assertion that emergency powers justify his worldwide tariffs, a blow to his efforts to refashion global trade. In a 7-4 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the tariffs were not authorized by the statute Trump cited...
The state of Florida could lose $218 million after a judge ordered the closure of Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility based in the Everglades that was once a training airport. The site was created with funding from the Florida Division of Emergency Management and was quickly retrofitted to house people detained for federal immigration purposes. ...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he pulled $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects Friday, suggesting investments be made elsewhere. “Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” the Transportation secretary said in a Friday statement. “Joe Biden and [former Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg bent over backwards...
FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has warned Gmail that it may face a federal investigation over allegations that it intentionally suppresses messages sent by Republicans, which could violate the FTC Act's prohibition of unfair or deceptive trade practices.
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Arlington Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools sued the Department of Education on Friday after the federal agency threatened funding losses over the Virginia school districts' policies regarding transgender students. The Education Department said five school districts in Northern Virginia were at risk of losing funding over their refusal to change policies that...
A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration from ending protections from deportation for some 600,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S. The decision from a three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstalls Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the U.S., which were lifted by the Supreme Court despite a lower...
Plus: Judge weighs Trump firing of Fed’s Lisa Cook {beacon} LAWMAKERS WILL RETURN from August recess next week to dive into funding fights and multiple controversies involving the Trump administration: one focused on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and another over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Congress will also...
President Trump is using a tool known as a "pocket rescission" to unilaterally cut roughly $5 billion in congressionally approved funding, sparking bipartisan pushback on Capitol Hill. The rare move, which Trump announced in a letter sent to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) late Thursday, is the latest step by Trump and his team to test the bounds of presidential...
