A new Trump admin housing directive aims to tackle the U.S.'s housing affordability crunch by ending Obama-era rule allowing indefinite liability for property owners over past building design errors.
The public and messy feud between President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk was reignited this week over the president’s “big, beautiful bill” as Congress works to get the massive package to Trump’s desk by July 4. Musk on Monday said he would back primary challengers against any Republicans who support Trump’s megabill and promised...
The European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged Iran to resume talks on ending the country’s nuclear program while speaking with Tehran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. “Negotiations on ending Iran's nuclear programme should restart as soon as possible. Cooperation with @iaeaorg must resume. The EU is ready to facilitate this. Any threats to pull...
The FBI announced Tuesday it would not be moving its headquarters outside of D.C., abandoning plans hatched under the Biden administration to move the bureau to the Maryland suburbs. The bureau will leave the crumbling Hoover Building and instead occupy space at the Ronald Reagan Building — space that was recently occupied by the U.S....
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani slammed President Trump’s threat to investigate his immigration status and arrest him over his opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) raids. Trump said during a Tuesday press conference at a detention center in Florida referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz” that if Mamdani prevents ICE agents from...
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from participating on its women’s sports teams and remove the records of Lia Thomas, a former student and the first transgender woman to win a NCAA Division I national championship, the Education Department announced Tuesday. The resolution agreement — which comes after the department found...
Senate Republicans endured a 26-hour slog before finally passing President Trump’s ambitious tax and spending package early Tuesday afternoon, putting it one giant step closer to reaching the president's desk. The bill now heads to the House, where questions surround whether the lower chamber can meet the GOP’s self-imposed July 4 deadline for passing the...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass bemoaned the Trump administration's lawsuit challenging the city's sanctuary status and attacking its immigration policies. “The lawsuit is an attempt to overturn the will of the city, calling for a halt to long-standing policy to protect immigrant Angelenos. We are a city of immigrants who have had policies in place...
A handful of hard-line House conservatives are threatening to tank a Wednesday procedural vote for the party’s reconciliation bill, a revolt that would bring the lower chamber to a screeching halt and potentially derail GOP leadership’s plan of clearing the legislation by July 4. Rep. Andy Harris (R-Tenn.), the chair of the conservative House Freedom...
The 12-member jury in the Sean “Diddy” Combs criminal trial ended deliberations for the evening Tuesday after reaching a verdict on four counts facing the rap mogul, but failing to unanimously vote on the fifth.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) cheered the Senate’s decision Tuesday to remove a provision from Republicans’ sweeping tax bill that would have barred states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI), calling it a “huge win for federalism.” Despite initially voting for the House version of the bill containing the AI moratorium, Greene has since become a...
The controversial former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) has lost his second attempt at a political comeback, losing the Democratic nomination for a seat on the New York City Council, Decision Desk HQ projects. He was defeated by state Assembly member Harvey Epstein. Weiner and Epstein were part of a five-person race for the Democratic nomination...
The Trump administration and Florida leaders are moving forward with a plan to build a detention facility on a remote site in the Everglades to hold undocumented migrants awaiting deportation, with the facility expected to cost $450 million a year.
Rep. Byron Donalds’s (R-Fla.) gubernatorial campaign said Tuesday it has raised a whopping $22 million since the congressman entered the race in February. Donalds currently has more than $20 million in cash on hand, according to his campaign. Axios was the first to report on the fundraising haul. Donalds is widely seen as the front-runner...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) labeled the process that brought her to vote for the GOP’s gargantuan tax and spending package “agonizing” and said she hopes more is done to improve the bill, including through both the Senate and House going to conference to finalize it. Murkowski told reporters after the vote that she "struggled mightily"...
