Rep. Ilhan Omar stands for everything we shouldn’t want an immigrant to be — petulant, hostile to the American system as such, and perhaps not above perpetrating fraud.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is speaking with reporters Thursday afternoon as the lapse in government funding persists. Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked the latest vote to reopen the government, standing their ground on demands for an extension of health care subsidies to be included in any stopgap funding plan. The upper chamber also...
President Trump is expected to hold a roundtable at the White House Thursday afternoon to outline the administration's efforts to combat crime, as well as drug and human trafficking. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,...
College Algebra is a major barrier to degree completion, but redesigning math experiences to focus on real-world applications can help students develop the skills they need to succeed in their careers and in life.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the former White House press secretary, is participating in a media tour to promote her new book, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.” But her numerous appearances with otherwise ideologically friendly interviewers — Stephen Colbert, Tim Miller, Gayle King — have not gone well, for a very...
President Trump said Thursday he would not deploy federal troops to San Francisco, reversing course on plans to implement anticrime and immigration enforcement in the Bay Area. Trump in a post on Truth Social said friends of his called him to ask him not to go forward with the surge after arguing the city’s Democratic...
President Donald Trump is considering giving preferential treatment to white Christians from South Africa and Europe seeking to enter the U.S. as refugees, which would be a racist attack on diversity and limit the number of refugees allowed to enter the U.S. to 7,500 in 2026.
President Trump had the East Wing of the White House demolished this week, a change of course from previous statements that his massive, privately funded ballroom addition would be near but not touch the structure. Starting Monday, construction equipment broke the facade of the portion of the White House complex that was home to offices...
Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admitted on Wednesday to authoring a series of antigay Reddit posts and called his past comments “indefensible.” “I have no reason to deny [that the posts are mine],” Platner said in a Zoom interview with The Advocate, the LGBT news magazine that first reported on the controversial posts on...
Three NBA players and coaches were among more than 30 individuals indicted by federal prosecutors in charges unsealed Thursday as part of a large-scale illegal betting investigation linking the sports figures with organized crime families. Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former Cleveland Cavaliers player Damon Jones were arrested Thursday...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is temporarily calling back all furloughed staff starting next week, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Open enrollment for traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans began Oct. 15, while the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace starts Nov. 1. According to the Department of Health and Human Services shutdown plan, 47 percent of CMS...
The Senate is voting Thursday on legislation sponsored by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) that would pay “excepted” employees, or federal workers who have to stay at work in spite of the funding lapse. The legislation is being considered as the government shutdown goes into its fourth week. Democrats on Wednesday blocked a House-passed bill to...
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman (D) says former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2024, “lost the plot” when she called President Trump a “fascist.” Fetterman made his comments during an interview with Fox News’s “Hannity”. Asked by the show’s host, Sean Hannity, why Democrats are comparing Trump to authoritarian leaders...
