1985—In a speech at Georgetown law school, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. attempts to defend his judicial career of misinterpreting the Constitution to entrench liberal…
States are warning SNAP recipients their eligibility for food assistance could change as a November deadline to comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill approaches.
President Trump on Monday is set to address Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, and attend a Middle East peace ceremony in Egypt following a potential deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza. Trump’s Knesset address is set for 11:00 a.m. local time, a little under two hours after he is expected to...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said in a Sunday interview that Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook should release her mortgage documents to dispel claims of fraud coming from the Trump administration, which is seeking her ouster. Pressed in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Khanna said Cook should release the documents to prove...
President Trump's claim that 600,000 Chinese students would be admitted to the U.S. in exchange for trade deals is unrealistic, but policymakers should still weigh the risks and benefits of Chinese student enrollment for U.S. national security.
Despite the kindness of strangers, a couple in Houston faced a difficult and confusing process when trying to receive FEMA disaster assistance after their home flooded, highlighting the need for reform in the agency's bureaucracy.
The Mississippi Department of Health recently declared a public health emergency in response to rising infant deaths in an unusual move to help speed up efforts to cover gaps in care. Lowering the state’s infant mortality rate won’t be easy, health experts warn, and will potentially be made trickier by the ongoing overhaul of the...
A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned U.S. deportation of Guatemalan children amid President Trump’s intense crackdown on immigration. In a court filing Sunday, lawyers for the children said they were “ten (10) unaccompanied minors from Guatemala between the ages of 10 and 17 whom Defendants are seeking to remove from the United States...
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said the Minneapolis shooting suspect "never should have had access or been able to possess a firearm" given the shooter's apparent mental health issues. During an interview on ABC's "This Week," co-anchor Martha Raddatz asked Emmer about plans to prevent someone with mental health issues from enacting violence, to...
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is stepping back into the political arena as a crusader against partisan redistricting. Urging Californians to “terminate gerrymandering,” the former governor and Hollywood icon has joined the likes of former GOP Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), investor Charlie Munger and state GOP legislators in pushing back on the plan, which...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he is “very confident” in the passage of his and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) bill on files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Congress left town early without voting on your bipartisan bill, which would basically call for the release of all of the files...
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday he does not “connect” autism and vaccines in the wake of five top officials’ exit at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The science has debunked links between autism and vaccines for more than 20 years,” NBC News’s Kristen Welker said on “Meet the Press.” “Oh no,...
A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official is sounding the alarm about Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his policies after resigning from his post last week. Former Director of the CDC's Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, resigned last Wednesday following the White House's...
