A House subcommittee has concluded that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick gamed the system to siphon ill-gotten money into her political campaigns, provided false information on her financial reports and gave special treatment to associates when doling out earmark spending projects.
Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration's latest policy of deporting immigrants to "third countries."
Democratic voters are expressing a less positive view of their party ahead of the midterm elections, according to recent polling data. In a new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about 7 in 10 Democratic voters said they have a positive view of the Democratic Party. These numbers are only slightly...
It’s a rich irony that after decades warning about how Democrats would corrupt our country with state-sponsored atheism and moral relativism, Republicans can now lay claim to perhaps the most godless and amoral administration in American history.
Santita Jackson, the daughter of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, on Tuesday remembered her father as a courageous man who would "put his life on the line" for the causes he fought for and believed in. Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday after battling the neurodegenerative disorder progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). He was 84. His daughter...
Former national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday said President Trump should have set a departure date for Iran's supreme leader a “long time ago” as indirect talks between the Washington and Tehran are set to continue. “I think he should have done that a long time ago and indeed I think the U.S. has...
"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday dismissed CBS's denial that it blocked his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) from airing as “crap.” “They know damn well that every word of my script last night was approved by CBS lawyers, who, for the record, approve every script that goes on the air,”...
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is having an I-told-you-so moment when it comes to President Trump’s tariffs. At November’s blockbuster arguments, Gorsuch raised alarm about what he called a “one-way ratchet” of authority from Congress to the president if Trump wins a case that challenges his use of emergency powers to impose duties on a...
The funding fight over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Capitol Hill is at a standstill. The White House on Tuesday indicated that negotiators are "still pretty far apart" after Democrats sent a Monday counterproposal outlining their demands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement reforms. The House and Senate are in recess. With no end...
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) asked Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on the “ultra-wealthy,” citing a "significant chasm" in the city's $5.4 billion deficit. During a preliminary budget proposal announcement on Tuesday, Mamdani laid out two different “paths” the city could take to address the deficit concerns. The first and “most sustainable and...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said on Tuesday that he would “rather eat glass” than replace gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar’s (D-Minn.) in her U.S. Senate seat if she is elected. The lighthearted moment occurred when the governor took a question on the way to the podium at a press conference on Tuesday. “The context was...
