Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.
Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...
Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...
Although Trump claims that global warming is a scam, the real scam is his energy policy. It is designed not for energy security but to satisfy big oil's greed and maintain its support of Trump's power.
President Trump said he was informed that the “terrorists who attacked" his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland had been captured. “I was just informed by Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom, that they caught the terrorists who attacked the beautiful Turnberry, in Scotland,” Trump said a post late Sunday on Truth Social. Trump said...
In today’s issue: President Trump will shake up global trade again this week, add new pressures to a slowing U.S. economy and pay new attention Tuesday to voters in Wisconsin and Florida, who may send early feedback about Republican governance. The president has said that reciprocal tariffs on imported goods and higher levies on autos and car...
The Trump administration’s request for the Supreme Court to intervene in a fight over federal teacher development grants has elevated an expanding series of legal battles implicating the administration’s sweeping shifts in education policy. More than 20 lawsuits have been filed, from one against President Trump’s executive order aimed at gutting the Education Department to...
The International Transgender Day of Visibility, recognized globally for more than a decade, is, for many trans Americans, taking on a new weight this year as President Trump and his administration seek to deny their existence. Orders signed by Trump since his return to office in January aim to bar transgender troops from serving openly...
A major Democratic super PAC on Monday launched a new database to track the state-by-state impacts of the Trump administration’s agenda. American Bridge 21st Century, which is the Democratic Party’s largest opposition research operation, announced that it would highlight how states are affected by economic fallout and cuts to government programs from the Trump administration. ...
President Trump said he doesn’t want to discuss his plans for 2028 but said “so many people” are asking him to run for a third term — a move prohibited by the Constitution. Trump was asked about his comments from an earlier Sunday interview in which he said he was “not joking” about running for...
American filmmaker Oliver Stone — whose political thriller, “JFK,” made waves more than 30 years ago — will testify on Tuesday before a House committee on the release of new documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr., according to a press release from the committee. The Task Force on the Declassification of...
President Trump said late Sunday there is a “psychological deadline” for Russia to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine, shortly after he had expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "It's a psychological deadline,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked if there was a deadline for Russia to agree to a deal....
Tech billionaire Elon Musk handed out oversized $1 million checks to two attendees of his town hall in Wisconsin on Sunday evening, saying the stunt is cheaper and more effective than paying for the same amount of media coverage. “The reason for the checks is that it's really just to get attention. It's like, we...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) called on Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to “rein those judges in” who have issued orders blocking parts of President Trump’s agenda. “You’ll notice the activist judges, that the radical leftists, that the super legislators on the courts are issuing national injunctions against what he's [President Trump’s] trying to do,...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) knocked Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) bill to abolish the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), suggesting only terrorists would support it. Lee reposted a Fox News article about his legislation and asked, in a post on the social platform X, “Who supports my bill to abolish TSA?” “Bin Laden,” Moskowitz responded, referring to...
