Republican senators have asked the Justice Department to investigate a Minneapolis-based charity that nearly landed $1 million in taxpayer money courtesy of Rep. Ilhan Omar, saying it shows signs of being a fraud operation.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) criticized President Trump’s push to acquire Greenland on Sunday and said it is “not about security.” “This is not about security, Jon. This is about a land grab. Donald Trump wants to get his hands on the minerals and other resources of Greenland, just like the real reason he went...
President Trump is facing signs that his immigration crackdown is losing popularity with American voters as fallout grows from the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer this month. Recent polling has found Trump’s approval on immigration at a low point and shown that even some Republican voters are critical...
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Sunday he spoke with President Trump about the “security situation” in Greenland. “Spoke with @POTUS regarding the security situation in Greenland and the Arctic. We will continue working on this, and I look forward to seeing him in Davos later this week,” Rutte wrote in a post on the social...
Vogue’s former Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour called out Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for urging airline passengers to “dress a little better” to encourage more civil behavior. “It was ironic to hear our Secretary of Transport urging the public to be polite the same week our president was calling a female journalist 'piggy' and 'ugly.' Maybe they...
At least one person is dead after a shooting at Kentucky State University (KSU) in Frankfort, Ky., on Tuesday afternoon, according to authorities. The Frankfort Police Department (FPD) said on Facebook that one person has died and another is in "critical condition." Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said on the social platform X that he...
President Trump will give remarks Tuesday evening from Pennsylvania about his economic agenda, which he has graded an "A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus." Since returning to the Oval Office in January, Trump has made sparingly few domestic trips to tout his agenda. But with the 2026 midterms on the horizon and Republicans struggling to sell their signature legislative accomplishment,...
Providing tax credits to caregivers to relieve them of their financial and personal burdens could benefit millions of Americans and the broader economy, advocates backing legislation to do so said Tuesday at an event hosted by The Hill. Lance Robertson, a former assistant secretary on aging with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said he’s less concerned about President Trump potentially running for a third term in office, pointing to the 79-year-old’s age and potential well-being. “I've softened, to your question, on this notion of a third Trump term because time of life and state of mind,” Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential contender,...
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Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) is calling on the U.S. to follow Australia’s lead and ban children younger than 16 from using social media. “When it comes to our adolescents, it’s either going to be adults or the algorithms. One of them is going to raise the kids,” Emanuel said in a video on...
President Trump is watching closely as Netflix and Paramount battle for control of the entertainment giant Warner Bros. Discovery. While Netflix is projecting confidence its agreement to acquire the valuable Warner Brothers studios will hold with investors and clear government regulators, the president’s cozy relationship with Paramount is being seen as a wild card that...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) expressed his enthusiasm about Democratic firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett (Texas) running for Senate. “Am I hiding my glee? I’ll try to wipe the smile off my face, I would say it’s a gift,” Cornyn told Semafor in an interview discussing former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) exiting the race and Crockett jumping...
Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation Tuesday to prevent President Trump or any sitting or living former president from being featured on U.S. currency, a bill that would thwart the U.S. Treasury’s plan to issue a commemorative $1 coin with Trump’s image on it. The bill, titled the Change Corruption...
The creator of ICEBlock — an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — sued the Trump administration on Monday, arguing Attorney General Pam Bondi violated free speech protections by pressuring Apple to remove the app from its store. Joshua Aaron, the maker of the app, argues in the...
A group of Senate Democrats slammed President Trump’s decision Monday to allow sales of Nvidia’s H200 chips to China, calling it a “colossal economic and national security failure.” Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) warned the H200 chips are “vastly...
The parents of a student who painted a pro-Charlie Kirk message on a school’s spirit rock are suing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for its handling of the incident. The parents of a student at Ardrey Kell High School, supported by conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the school district of violating...
