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FAA unveils new air traffic controller hiring plan after chief warned system was ‘chronically understaffed’

The FAA unveiled a workforce overhaul to tackle chronic air traffic controller shortages, excessive overtime and aging technology across U.S. airspace.

Unlikely bipartisan Senate duo seeks to permanently ban ex-lawmakers from lobbying

In a demonstration of bipartisanship, GOP Sen. Rick Scott and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren are advocating a measure to permanently ban former lawmakers from lobbying.

Gavin Newsom’s budget ignores California’s ticking fiscal time bomb

Gavin Newsom claims to have balanced the budget for the first time in five...

Trump’s Anticlimactic China Trip

‘This felt like the two great powers of the world deferring any major issues.’

Our Screen Culture Increasingly Can’t Read

Over the past ten years, reading scores have declined in 83 percent of school...

It’s not just the West: Wildfire season is spreading across the country

The country is a tinder box — and if predictions are correct, as many as 8 million acres are at risk.

Two Democrats cross aisle to advance Warsh’s Fed chair nomination

Two Democratic Senators on Monday joined Republicans in voting to advance the nomination of Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, backing President Trump’s nominee for chair of the Fed. The upper chamber voted to advance Warsh’s nomination to the Fed's board, setting him up to be confirmed in the coming days to...

DOJ subpoenas Wall Street Journal over Iran war leaks

The Wall Street Journal on Monday said it received grand jury subpoenas from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for reporters' records over media leaks connected to the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran. The Journal received those subpoenas on March 4, which referred to reporting published on Feb. 23 that said that Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman...

Chip Roy introduces death penalty bill for convicted fentanyl dealers

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is introducing a bill on Tuesday that proposes allowing the death penalty for people convicted of distributing fentanyl that results in fatalities, Fox News reported.  The bill, the Deal Death, Face Death Act, proposes amending the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 to say that convicted fentanyl dealers “shall be sentenced, if...

Rod Stewart tells King Charles he put ‘little ratbag in his place’ during US trip

Rod Stewart praised King Charles III following the British monarch's trip to the United States — which included an address to a joint meeting of Congress and a visit to the White House -- telling him that he put "that little ratbag in his place" during the American tour. "May I say, well done in the...

Hantavirus and COVID: How are they different?

COVID-19 is more contagious and more easily transmissible than hantavirus.

Trump attacks New York Times over report on reflecting pool’s rising costs

President Trump ripped The New York Times on Tuesday morning over a report detailing the ballooning cost of his project to repair and renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “The Failing New York Times, which is one of the worst newspapers anywhere in the World, and is losing subscribers on an hourly basis, is now...

Live updates: Hegseth, Caine return to Hill as Trump heads to China

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be on Capitol Hill for budget hearings in both chambers on Tuesday morning. The testimony comes as President Trump’s snap decision to pull 5,000 U.S. troops out of Germany isn’t moving the needle in pushing European nations to enter the U.S. war in Iran or help Washington reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and...

The Supreme Court ignores past and current reality to gut the Voting Rights Act

Racial discrimination in redistricting is a malignancy that cannot be wished away.

Our nation’s capital — Trump’s sandbox

President Trump has been treating Washington as his personal property, making radical changes to the city and renaming historic buildings after himself, while also proposing expensive and unnecessary projects, all in an attempt to rebrand the nation's capital in his honor.

The Movement: Primaries affirm Trump’s grip on GOP, but key tests are ahead

Some of the biggest primary battles of the year have reaffirmed President Trump’s grip on Republicans, despite the party facing tough midterm odds — but more tests are coming. Trump’s endorsement of Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) for Senate last week, and an apparent offer to businessman Nate Morris to be an ambassador, led to Morris’s prompt withdrawal from the race —...

Watch live: Hegseth, Caine testify before House on Iran, defense budget

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Dan Caine will testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning on the President Trump's fiscal 2027 $1.5 trillion budget request for the Pentagon. The hearing comes as the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire is under pressure, with both sides rejecting proposals to end the war....

Trump urges House to pass Senate’s housing bill over conservative opposition

President Trump on Monday urged the House to pass a sweeping housing affordability bill that has stalled in the lower chamber amid divisions over certain provisions, including a ban on large institutional investors buying single-family homes. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aimed at lowering housing costs, overwhelmingly passed the Senate in an 89-10...

Can a Jew win the Democratic presidential nomination?

The Democratic Party's growing anti-Israel bias may make it difficult for a Jewish candidate to win the 2028 presidential nomination, despite the fact that the Jewish vote leans strongly Democratic.

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