Republican state Sen. Randy Fine won Tuesday's special election in Florida's 6th Congressional District to fill the seat that Michael Waltz vacated to serve as President Trump's national security adviser.
The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, U.S officials said Tuesday.
Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. government has used its immigration enforcement powers to crack down on international students and scholars at several American universities who had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations or criticized Israel over its military action in Gaza.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to lean toward reviving a straight woman’s “reverse discrimination” case brought over claims she was passed over for a promotion and demoted in favor of gay colleagues. Such a ruling would lower the legal hurdle in many areas of the country for white and straight employees to bring discrimination suits...
Despite the initial successes of litigation against the Trump administration, many are skeptical that the courts will ultimately stop the erosion of democracy, highlighting the need for a broader policy agenda and public engagement to protect democracy from an authoritarian takeover.
The Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee instructed GOP staff to refer to the West Bank by its biblical name, Judea and Samaria. The term is still used by Israel’s government to refer to territory of the West Bank along the Jordan River, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinians. Rep. Brian Mast...
Maine’s Democrat-controlled House voted Tuesday evening to censure a Republican lawmaker who posted photos on their Facebook page of a transgender high school student. The state House voted 75-70 along party lines to censure Rep. Laurel Libby (R), who refused to apologize for posting about the student and accused her Democratic colleagues of attempting to...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said he believes the Democratic Party has “fallen out of touch” with what the majority of Americans want from the party. Moulton went on Fox News on Wednesday, where he highlighted the idea from Democratic strategist James Carville that Democrats should sit back and let President Trump “punch himself out” and...
President Trump hosted the first Cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday morning, bringing together for the first time both sworn-in members of his administration and the nominees still waiting for Senate confirmation. Billionaire and key Trump ally Elon Musk also joined the meeting and gave remarks about his efforts to curb government spending and...
In 2024, police officers in the US killed 1,365 people, a slight increase from the 1,329 civilians killed in 2023, according to the Mapping Police Violence report.
President Trump's recent inflammatory rhetoric towards Ukraine is likely motivated by his desire to cultivate strategic unpredictability and his perception of Ukraine as a less important geopolitical priority than Russia and China.
Rep. Derek Tran (D-Calif.) is introducing legislation that would seek to rehire veterans terminated without reason under the Trump administration's mass layoffs across federal departments and agencies. Tran's bill would require the government to rehire veterans who were fired without reason since the beginning of President Trump's term. It also would require agencies to submit...
Elon Musk, the head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), released a table Tuesday showing the Department of Education has made the most “progress with efficiency.” “The league table of which departments in the US government have made the most or least progress with efficiency,” Musk said in a post on...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is penning a bipartisanship-focused memoir that calls for compromise amid a deeply divided Congress. "Far From Home" details how Murkowski "learned to adapt to the harsh climate of Washington, D.C., and issues a fervent appeal for a politics grounded in compromise and compassion" publisher Forum Books said in promotional materials released...
Conservative lawyer George Conway said President Trump’s bold changes to the federal government reveal an effort to “destroy” its institutions and exact “revenge” on the country. “This is an attempt — basically, Donald Trump wants to have revenge on the United States of America,” Conway, a fierce Trump critic, said in an interview on MSNBC....
Public nuisance is regularly being claimed as an unlimited vessel to load a wish list of policy preferences through litigation that have not and likely could not be achieved through legislation or regulation.
