National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Trump can stay in the state and under federal control, but can't be deployed to protect federal property or go on patrol for now, an appeals court ruled Saturday.
Demonstrators will once again take to the streets for "No Kings Day," a nationwide series of protests against the Trump administration, on Oct. 18. While protests against President Trump have not been uncommon since his first term, "No Kings Day" kicked off on June 14. These gatherings were organized in response to the U.S. Army's...
More than 4,000 federal employees across several departments were laid off on Friday as the government shutdown stretched into the weekend, with no new deal between Democrats and Republicans in sight. Details found in a Department of Justice (DOJ) court filing list the number of layoffs per department or agency. The most significant number of...
President Trump will address Israel's Knesset and visit Cairo as part of a trip marking the historic Israel-Hamas peace deal before honoring Charlie Kirk.
President Trump's newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the economy sours.
House GOP leaders on Tuesday morning added to this week’s House schedule a vote on a resolution directing the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to continue its investigation into matters surrounding the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The addition comes as leaders contend with an alternative push to force a vote on a...
President Trump wants poor people to stay in jail when they are arrested, while still presumed innocent, even if it takes months or years before their cases come to trial. He didn’t exactly put it that way, of course. But that would be the inevitable consequence of his campaign against cashless bail. Trump announced an executive...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) rebuked President Trump’s potential deployment of the National Guard to the Windy City, telling the crowd on Monday that the city’s leaders will “protect” the “humanity” of its residents. “No federal troops in the city of Chicago. No militarized force in the city of Chicago," Johnson said during the “Workers...
As the Supreme Court closed its latest term, it did so by denying justice to Native Americans—yet again. With its refusal to hear Apache Stronghold v. United States, the court effectively allowed a foreign-owned mining company to desecrate a sacred Apache site — Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat — opening the door for it to...
A conference that has struck fear into the conservative old guard and served as an ideas lab for policies now being implemented in the Trump administration kicks off Tuesday. Now in its fifth year, the National Conservatism Conference is not a flashy rally like the Conservative Political Action Conference or events that Turning Point USA packs with young people and...
Houston, TX (AP) - An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday. The boy had been ringing doorbells as a prank late Saturday evening, the Houston Police Department said in a statement. Commonly referred to as “ding...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned his Democratic colleagues in a letter Tuesday of the growing chance of a government shutdown, declaring that “Republicans are once again threatening to go-at-it-alone” by not negotiating with Democrats on a stopgap spending measure. Schumer said the Trump administration is provoking a standoff over government funding by moving...
Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed his “old friend” Russian President Vladimir Putin to China this week as the two leaders, along with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, are set to attend a massive military parade in Beijing. Putin called Xi his “dear friend” and argued that the relationship between Russia and China, which has deepened...
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 Friday that the president’s aggressive imposition of unilateral taxes on imports is “invalid as contrary to law.” Trump has claimed sweeping authority to impose, remove, and modify at will tariffs on any country in the world all under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act which, as the court notes, has never...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said Monday he hopes House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “will listen to the pleas” of victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as he and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) prepare to hold a press conference with the individuals. “Our press conference with 10 victims of Epstein‘s sex trafficking is at 10:30...
A House panel investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has withdrawn a subpoena for former FBI Director Robert Mueller, citing his health. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) in early August announced he had issued subpoenas to 10 high-profile former government officials, including Mueller. However, after the committee was informed about...
