Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) said Sunday that President Trump’s “patience” with Russian President Vladimir Putin is “wearing thin” after the president had a call with the Russian leader late last week. Crawford made the comment in response to a question during an appearance on Fox News. “People keep falling out of buildings in Russia, Ukraine...
Two green card-holding professors at U.S. universities took the stand Monday to detail how they grew fearful and less willing to publicly criticize the Trump administration as it began targeting pro-Palestinian campus activists. The testimony came during a bench trial in federal court in Boston over the government’s crackdown, namely a policy that has led...
Former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison suggested on Sunday that President Trump’s tax and spending legislation will make red states more competitive in the next election cycle, as the consequences of the GOP megabill continue to take effect. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” with Jonathan Capehart, Harrison pointed to the extension of...
The White House on Monday called it a “depraved lie” to blame President Trump for deadly flash floods in Texas, as some question whether Trump's cuts to the federal government could have impacted the human toll of the disaster. “Unfortunately, in the wake of this once-in-a-generation natural disaster, we have seen many falsehoods pushed by...
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) said “something went wrong” when the staff at the all-girls Christian summer camp in Kerr County wasn't warned of rising flood waters on the Guadalupe River, which killed at least 27 campers and counselors. “The fact that you have girls asleep in their cabins when the flood waters are rising,...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday he is planning to meet with Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani next week. “I’m scheduled to meet with him next week and we’ll have a conversation about his vision. He did run a campaign that was actually focused largely on affordability, and that was...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and did not keep a client list, the department determined in a memo released Monday alongside the FBI. The conclusion is in line with numerous prior evaluations after Epstein was found dead in his prison cell. Nonetheless, the conclusion comes after President Trump...
Catastrophic flooding in Texas Hill Country resulted in the deaths of at least 82 people, including 27 children and counselors from Camp Mystic, and dozens more are missing as search and rescue efforts continue, with questions remaining about the effectiveness of the warning system and staffing of federal offices.
A man was killed Monday after he opened fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, police officials said. McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez told reporters that federal agents responded to the shooting by returning fire at Ryan Louis Mosqueda, 27, who died. He had an assault rifle and was carrying a utility...
The United States has broken its record for the highest number of measles cases in the country since the disease was eliminated in 2000. It comes amid falling childhood vaccination rates and a rise in anti-vaccine sentiment fueled by lingering COVID-era distrust in public health authorities and a strengthening anti-vaccine movement. Just halfway through the...
The US fertility rate has declined to 1.6 children per woman, threatening the future of the nation, and a pronatalist revolution is needed to reverse this decline, with policies such as a 100 percent tax exemption for parents, guaranteed mortgages for families with two or more children, national service incentives, paid leave and education that reminds students why marriage and family matter.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent late Sunday fired back at Larry Summers for the former Treasury secretary's criticism of President Trump’s massive tax and spending legislation. In a thread on X, Bessent demanded an apology from Summers for comparing the deaths that some estimates predict will result from the health care cuts in the bill to...
Members of Congress are carrying on the tradition of "oversight by showing up" to inspect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, and the Trump administration should abandon its attempts to block these efforts and embrace the bipartisan tradition of congressional site visits that helped to win World War II.
