Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) is significantly trailing state Attorney General Ken Paxton in an internal GOP primary poll conducted by a super PAC supporting the incumbent, pointing to a potentially challenging reelection bid. The longtime senior senator is behind Paxton in the poll by 16 points, 56 percent to 40 percent, Punchbowl News reported...
CNBC pundit Jim Cramer praised President Trump after the U.S. and China announced an agreement Monday to pause an ongoing trade battle between two of the world's largest superpowers. “This to me, is a signal that there is maybe a different kind of President Trump happening,” Cramer said on CNBC Monday morning. “President Trump seems...
New York's Climate Change Superfund Act holds the largest, most profitable global fossil fuel companies accountable for the damage their products have caused, while President Trump's executive order seeks to undermine the state sovereignty and the idea of states holding powerful interests accountable.
President Trump on Monday called it "stupid" for him to turn down the gift of a luxury Boeing jet from Qatar, praising the free present from the Arab nation as a “great gesture.” Boeing has had a contract with the U.S. government to deliver a new Air Force One jet but it's been faced with...
The governor of the Mexican state of Baja California said she and her husband were informed that their U.S. tourist visas have been withdrawn. In a post on social media on X, Marina del Pilar Ávila said she was informed that her visa was revoked via consular message, shortly after her husband, Carlos Torres, received...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is warning against his own party’s push to slash Medicaid spending, just hours after House Republicans released legislation that could save billions of dollars and make millions of people lose health insurance coverage. Hawley wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times that paying for President Trump’s domestic...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a swim in Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek despite warnings about high bacterial levels, drawing attention to his unconventional views on health policy.
President Trump on Monday raised the possibility of flying to Turkey later this week to join talks between Russia and Ukraine if there was a chance of progress in efforts to stop the fighting between the countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have indicated they could meet for direct talks in...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly slowed air traffic at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday because a new telecommunications issue affected the Philadelphia facility that guides planes into and out of New Jersey’s largest airport. The FAA said in a statement that the agency slowed traffic amid work to ensure “redundancies were working as...
President Trump is set to hold a press conference Monday morning with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on an effort to cap prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices at the lowest cost offered to any other country. Trump said on Sunday he would enact through an executive order a “most favored nation” policy,...
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the validity of President Trump's executive order to exclude children of "unlawful" entrants from birthright citizenship, with many justices likely to express extreme skepticism about the order's constitutionality.
The United States and China on Monday said they agreed to a 90-day pause on most retaliatory tariffs imposed on each other since early April, when President Trump announced his sweeping global tariff plan and ratcheted up his trade war with China. The world’s two largest economies issued a joint statement in which they pledged...
