The risk of a partial government shutdown at the end of January grew more likely Saturday after Senate Democrats vowed to block a funding package over a fatal Minneapolis shooting involving federal law enforcement authorities. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Saturday evening said that Democrats will block a major government funding package if...
A second fatal shooting in Minneapolis on Saturday morning sparked renewed calls from lawmakers on Capitol Hill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pull its federal agents out of Minnesota. The 37-year-old man was shot by federal agents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown operation in the state. A few weeks earlier, an...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) is requesting a meeting with President Trump after federal agents fatally shot a second person on Saturday in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s massive interstate immigration crackdown. Her request follows the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) announcement that they have initiated “Operation Catch of the Day” in Maine. DHS has...
The federal government is ramping up preparations ahead of a massive winter storm expected to sweep across multiple states from the Rockies to the Atlantic this weekend. The National Weather Service’s Winter Storm Severity Index on Saturday afternoon displayed expected “extreme impacts” in northern Mississippi and “major impacts” in Washington, D.C., and surrounding states. D.C....
This is not about open borders or closed borders. It is about whether America decides that looking American is enough. Or whether some people will always be asked to prove it.
Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is driving up costs. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) pressed Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and several other tech firms about their data center build-outs and agreements...
Yes, it’s true that Rob Reiner hated Trump, had called him mentally unfit for office, and inveighed against the president repeatedly on social media. But here, that old adage is quite appropriate: If you don’t have something nice to say, just say nothing.
Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday are scrambling to hammer out plans to address rising insurance premium costs before their holiday recess, as the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies looms large. The House Rules committee meets at 2 p.m., with the GOP leadership health plan on its agenda. Moderate Republicans will push for an amendment that...
Despite President Trump's claims of an "A+++++" economy, rising bankruptcy rates among businesses, farmers, and health care companies indicate that the economy is facing significant challenges that need to be addressed.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said she was supposed to see acclaimed actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, just hours after they were found stabbed to death in their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. "We’ve known them for many, many years, and we were supposed to be seeing them that night....
Rather than assuming that anyone called to testify against a defendant in open court can do so truthfully and effectively, courts should adopt a more nuanced and contextual approach.
Activists and commentators on the right are facing a reckoning over how to handle conspiracy theorists as podcaster Candace Owens and others purportedly digging into the assassination of Charlie Kirk have directed their fire at their friends and former colleagues at Turning Point USA. The sense among conservatives in the immediate aftermath of Kirk’s assassination just more than three months...
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Monday that President Trump should not have weighed in on the deaths of acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, who were found with stab wounds over the weekend at their home in Los Angeles. Kennedy joined a growing chorus of Republicans pushing back on...
Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.
The Army, built for sustained heavy occupation, cannot deploy a brigade in under a month. The Marines, in contrast, are designed to deploy within 24 hours.
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump changing marijuana’s classification would be ill-advised. “I think rescheduling marijuana is wrong. The fact is, marijuana is a gateway drug. Most of the people who end up using hard substances start out on marijuana,” Lawler told host Blake Burman on “The Hill.” The president said...
