1971—By a vote of 6 to 1, the California supreme court rules in Serrano v. Priest that California’s “public school financing system, with its substantial dependence on…
More than a dozen Republican-led states are urging Congress to ban abortion shield laws, pieces of legislation passed in states where abortion is legal that protect abortion providers from liability for violating anti-abortion laws in other states. A total of 15 GOP attorneys general signed and sent a letter to congressional leadership this week requesting...
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Senate’s president pro tempore and chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, said he was “offended” and “disappointed” by the tirade President Trump unleashed against him on social media over the obscure Senate tradition of respecting blue-slip objections to nominees tapped to serve as district court judges and U.S. attorneys. ...
State police in Connecticut say former WWE CEO Vince McMahon was issued a misdemeanor summons for reckless driving after allegedly causing a multi-vehicle crash last week.
LIVE Video: NTSB begins hearings on deadly DCA crash Texas Republicans are showing their hand as they try to force midcycle redistricting. They unveiled new congressional maps on Wednesday that create five new GOP-friendly districts. President Trump's economy faces a big day Wednesday, with a strong second-quarter GDP report and the Federal Reserve's latest interest...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said during a recent interview that there is still “plenty of horse-trading left to do” when it comes to certain aspects of the trade framework between the U.S. and the European Union (EU). “And do I expect to continue to be talking to the European Commission's trade people? Yeah, they called...
If you are willing to starve thousands and thousands of innocent people in order to punish terrorists hiding among them, where does your penchant for collective punishment and retaliatory violence end?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will speak to reporters Wednesday afternoon about Democrats' efforts to force the Trump administration to release more files on Jeffrey Epstein. Schumer will be joined by Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.), the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and others who have spoken out about the controversy surrounding...
Amazon has agreed to pay at least $20 million to The New York Times Co. for the right to use its journalism to feed the tech giant's artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The deal between the two companies was first announced in May, but The Wall Street Journal reported the details of the payment plan Wednesday....
The Secret Service is conducting a “personnel investigation” after an agent attempted to smuggle his wife on board a plane headed to Scotland for President Trump’s recent trip. “The aircraft, operated by the U.S. Air Force was being used by the Secret Service to transport personnel and equipment,” a Secret Service spokesperson told The Hill....
Broadcaster Bob Costas on Tuesday said the Manhattan gunman who shot and killed four people at a New York office tower on Tuesday had unreasonable grievances with the National Football League (NFL). Authorities said shooter Shane Tamura ended up in the wrong office but was targeting the NFL headquarters to address chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),...
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) condemned Tuesday confirmation of controversial nominee Emil Bove to serve as a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, after a series of whistleblowers accused him of a history of malfeasance. “This is a genuinely bad guy," Whitehouse said late Tuesday in an appearance on MSNBC's "The Briefing." "He was...
An appeals court may soon get in the way of President Trump’s trade agenda as his Aug. 1 deadline approaches to impose so-called 'reciprocal’ duties on a host of countries. One day ahead of that deadline, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will convene across the street from the White House to...
