A coalition of environmental groups on Friday sued over the Trump administration's plans to build a detention center in the Everglades that critics have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The suit seeks to block the Trump administration from building the new facility on a Florida airfield, the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport (TNT) near Big Cypress National...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Friday it's “premature” for anyone to be claiming that Iran will not try to continue its nuclear program. “The Iranian regime had not made a decision to build a bomb, was not pursuing the mechanism of a bomb, even though it was enriching uranium,” he said in Friday comments on...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took a swipe at President Trump’s national security team in a rare interview as part of a recent pattern of public comments urging the president to consider military intervention in Iran and elsewhere more favorably. “He’s got some pretty rabid isolationists over at [the Department of Defense] — you could argue...
The Senate parliamentarian on Friday ruled that a Republican attempt to charge migrants a $1,000 fee when applying for asylum violates the Senate’s Byrd Rule and cannot be included in the GOP megabill to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda. The mandatory $1,000 fee for asylum applications is one of several immigration-related fees the parliamentarian, Elizabeth...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) requested interviews with a series of top aides in former President Biden’s inner circle as part of his investigation into the president’s mental state. Comer sent letters Friday — saying information was needed “as part of our aggressive investigation into the cover-up of [Biden's] cognitive...
President Trump on Friday, following a slew of Supreme Court wins, will welcome leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to the White House. The meeting comes just hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio facilitated a peace-agreement signing ceremony with Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe....
By dropping language from the House-passed bill, Senate Republicans have actually made this even worse by singling out veterans, homeless people and former foster youth for even harsher treatment.
A man born to an active-duty member of the United States military on an Army base in Germany in 1986 before coming to the states as a child was deported last week to Jamaica, a country he’s never been to, according to a report by The Austin Chronicle.
New Hampshire lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to bills that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors in the state, sending the measures to Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte, who has not yet said whether she will sign them. State lawmakers voted to pass House Bill 377, which would prohibit doctors from administering puberty blockers...
President Trump on Friday claimed he saved Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from an “ugly” and “ignominious” death after the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear sites last Saturday. “Why would the so-called ‘Supreme Leader,’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the war torn Country of Iran, say so blatantly and foolishly that he won the War...
President Trump announced that he is suspending trade talks with Canada and will impose a higher tariff rate on the U.S.'s northern neighbor within a week due to Canada's decision to keep in place a digital services tax.
