The Supreme Court is set to announce its final slate of opinions on Friday, with several blockbuster cases left to be decided before the court’s summer break begins. The justices have yet to hand down major decisions expected to implicate porn website rules, LGBTQ books in schools, Louisiana’s congressional map and President Trump’s efforts to...
President Trump's election last fall was boosted by a more racially and ethnically diverse coalition of voters than in his previous two campaigns, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center. "For the most part, voting patterns across demographic groups in the 2024 presidential election were not substantially different from the 2020 and...
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has asked Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to rewrite the controversial artificial intelligence (AI) provision in President Trump’s tax package, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) told reporters Thursday. Cruz and Cantwell (D-Wash.), the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, met with the Senate parliamentarian Wednesday night, a source familiar with the conversations...
The Trump administration is calling out reporters by name as it seeks to push its narrative about U.S. strikes on Iran, seeking to put the media on defense while stifling any talk about intelligence reports that fall short of saying Tehran’s nuclear capabilities were obliterated. The attacks are targeting a broad swath of the press...
Democratic political strategist David Axelrod said the drama over the U.S.’s recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and the intel surrounding the outcome has been driven by President Trump’s “unquenchable thirst for credit.” “The controversy over the facts around the Iran attack stems from the @POTUS's unquenchable thirst for credit and praise that leads him...
Support for providing immigrants living in the country illegally with a pathway to legal status in the U.S. has increased over the past six months, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. In the latest poll, conducted earlier this week, registered voters were asked if they “had to choose” whether they prefer giving a pathway...
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) on Wednesday addressed fears stemming from federal charges tied to her visit to a New Jersey detention facility operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The lawmaker is facing 17 years for forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers on three counts after she tussled with law enforcement while exiting the...
Jenny Boelter, the wife of the Minnesota shooting suspect, extended her sympathies to the families of the lawmakers and spouses who were slain or seriously wounded in their homes earlier this month. In a statement provided through a legal representative, Jenny Boelter said she was “absolutely shocked” and “horrified” by the shootings and was cooperating...
The Trump Organization’s new mobile phone venture, Trump Mobile, has removed language from its website suggesting that its forthcoming smartphones will be made in the U.S. Trump Mobile, which President Trump’s sons unveiled last week, initially said in a press release that its golden T1 Phone would be “designed and built in the United States.”...
Anna Wintour, the longtime editor in chief of Vogue and a prominent Democratic fundraiser, is reportedly stepping down from her role at the fashion magazine. The publication's head announced she was leaving Vogue at a Wednesday staff meeting, multiple outlets reported Thursday. Seventy-five-year-old Wintour, who's topped the masthead at Vogue since 1988, will reportedly continue...
Older adults now outnumber children in almost half of the counties in the U.S., new data released Thursday from the Census Bureau shows. About 45 percent of the nation's more than 3,100 counties reported more residents 65 years or older than those under the age of 18 in 2024, according to a press release. This...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will speak at a Federal Reserve conference on bank regulation next month. The leader of the key artificial intelligence (AI) firm will join newly confirmed Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman for a fireside chat at the Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference on July 22....
CNN anchor Jake Tapper defended his colleague Natasha Bertrand after President Trump called for her firing in response to her reporting on leaked intelligence relating to U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend. “Today, President Trump and his administration are going after shooting the messengers in an increasingly ugly way,” Tapper said Wednesday on...
