New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed executive orders recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and handed one of the pens to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once represented an al-Qaida operative.
The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge blocked new restrictions on mail ballots ahead of the midterms.
Mexico will facilitate an “immediate” delivery of water to farmers in Texas to help shore up resources amid President Trump’s tariff threats, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Friday. “For Texas farmers who are requesting water, there will be an immediate delivery of a certain number of millions of cubic meters that can be provided...
The Biden administration has been accused of withholding information about a military report that suggests U.S. military personnel contracted COVID-19 after participating in the World Military Games in Wuhan, China, which contradicts China's timeline and suggests a longer cover-up.
The measles outbreak has now surpassed 700 reported cases in the U.S., raising the pressure on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rein in the deadly virus. Overall, 712 cases have been reported with new cases being discovered in Kansas, Ohio and Indiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
The Trump administration is exempting electronics such as phones, computers and other electronics from the "reciprocal" tariffs imposed on other nations, including China. Guidance posted by Customs and Border Protection, which collects duties on imports, indicated roughly 20 products would be excluded from reciprocal tariffs. Those include smartphones, computers, routers and semiconductor chips. The exemptions...
Department of Health and Human Services officials during a closed-door briefing could not give a full accounting of the number of people who have been fired from the agency, a Democratic aide for the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Friday. HHS officials insisted to committee staff that the agency's massive staffing cuts had been performed...
Today, scientists are losing jobs. Programs are vanishing. Budgets are being stripped to the bone. This isn’t happening because the science is flawed. It’s happening because science has failed to bring the public along.
Border czar Tom Homan is defending the Trump administration in the case of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, despite the Supreme Court ruling earlier this week that the U.S. must facilitate his return. During an interview Friday on Newsmax, Homan doubled down on the move, saying, "I think we made the right...
The Education Department's demand that K-12 districts and state officials certify their schools are free of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs is being met with open defiance from blue states and open arms by red ones. Highlighting an already stark divide on the issue, states including New York and Minnesota are telling the...
Congress left town this week without passing legislation to prevent significant budget cuts for Washington, as the measure faces staunch opposition from some conservatives. While the measure swiftly passed the Senate last month, it has sputtered in the GOP-led House, even as President Trump has publicly called for its passage. As lawmakers prepared to leave...
Frustrations are bubbling up among House Republicans after the conference — by the skin of its teeth — overcame internal disputes to adopt a framework for President Trump’s legislative agenda, a troubling sign for the group as it heads into the next, more difficult, step in achieving the president’s domestic policy priorities. The rocky week...
Susman Godfrey, which helped deliver Dominion Voting Systems a multimillion dollar settlement against Fox News, is suing President Trump over his recent order meant to punish the major law firm. The firm is suing the administration, arguing that Trump is in violation of the Constitution after he issued the Wednesday executive order seeking to ban...
President Trump authorized the military to take control of federal land stretching across three states at the southern border to assist in implementing his crack down on immigration. The president directed the secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security, in a Friday evening memorandum dubbed "Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the...
