A pair of House panels voted Tuesday to advance legislation laying out oversight of the crypto market. The House Financial Services Committee and House Agriculture Committee held separate markups on the The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with both ultimately voting to report the bill out of committee. The scenes in the two committees, however, were...
Montgomery County Commissioner Jason Knight said Wednesday he’s launching a campaign to replace Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), who announced earlier this week he would be leaving Congress for an opportunity in the private sector. “Throughout my entire career, I have consistently proven myself to be a principled conservative and a problem solver who delivers,” Knight said in a...
Michigan State University reached a settlement with three campus survivors of a 2023 shooting, totaling a payout of almost $30 million. Attorneys announced the settlement of $29.75 million on Tuesday. The shooting left three students dead and five more wounded. The three students in the lawsuit sustained life-altering injuries, from paralysis to lasting brain...
Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Wednesday that efforts to quell unrest in Los Angeles are working but that federal authorities are “not scared to go further” if necessary. Asked what the threshold would be for the Trump administration invoke the Insurrection Act, Bondi touted the steps the administration has already taken and seemed to...
Protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown are spreading across the United States with several organizations planning to launch demonstrations on Saturday that are meant to coincide with a military parade in Washington, D.C. on the president’s 79th birthday. The groups No Kings and 50501 have partnered to host protests in a wide range of...
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr., who is under criminal indictment, has fended off a primary challenge to win the Democratic nomination for a second term, Decision Desk HQ projects. Small defeated Bob McDevitt, a former longtime head of a casino workers union. He will face Republican Nadeem Ahmed Khan, who ran unopposed in the...
President Trump said Wednesday his administration had reached a tentative agreement on a trade truce with China following talks between the two sides in London. As part of the agreement, which Trump said was pending his approval and the approval of Chinese President Xi Jinping, China will supply “full magnets, and any necessary rare earths,”...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) knocked President Trump in a video address late Tuesday, after the Trump administration deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers and Marines to Los Angeles in an effort to quell immigration protests. The governor said while the state is no stranger to immigration enforcement, the administration was not focusing on illegal...
The Senate is poised to hold another key procedural vote on stablecoin legislation Wednesday, clearing the way for the crypto bill after several controversial amendments threatened to complicate its path forward. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) moved to end debate Monday on the updated text of the GENIUS Act, struck as part of a...
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) is backing Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) in the Democratic primary to replace retiring Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), making Kim the latest Democratic senator to back the congresswoman. “In a time when Democracy is under attack and working families are being squeezed from all sides, we need bold, principled leaders who won’t...
