New York hosted the nation’s first Labor Day parade when 10,000 workers marched from City Hall to Union Square. As the movement grew, so did the parades and celebrations.
The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory in a regional election Sunday, but fell a little short of winning a majority in its quest to form the country's first far-right state government since World War II.
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
The Senate on Monday voted to confirm John Phelan, a private investment firm founder and a major Trump campaign donor, as the next Navy secretary. The Florida businessman, who has no prior military experience, was confirmed in a 62-30 vote in the full Senate. While Phelan did not draw outright opposition during his Feb. 27...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling for Congress to investigate top Trump administration officials in the wake of a bombshell revelation that The Atlantic’s top editor was included in a group chat discussion detailing the Pentagon’s plans to strike Yemen. Jeffries said the details of the breach, outlined by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg on...
Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif). introduced the “Pakistan Democracy Act” on Monday, seeking to sanction the country's Army chief for “persecution of political opponents” including former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The Hill obtained a copy of the bill, which would place sanctions on Pakistan's military boss within 180 days, under the Global...
Washington was rocked Monday by a truly extraordinary story. The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, recounted how he had — apparently inadvertently — been added to a group chat featuring some of the most senior members of the United States government. Even more dramatically, the purpose of the chat, on the messaging app Signal,...
Democrats are seeing signs of growing energy on the grassroots level, raising questions about the possibility of a Tea Party-style movement from the party’s progressive flank. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) drew tens of thousands on stops for their “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” over the weekend, illustrating what progressives say is their...
Sen. Ron Wyden (R-Ore.) on Monday said Democrats shouldn’t help Republicans tackle the debt ceiling this Congress, after a recent forecast warned the government was at risk of defaulting during the summer. “The economic agenda for Trump and Republicans is about running up the debt and inflicting pain on working families to make billionaires like...
Columbia University student Yunseo Chung is suing the Trump administration amid its efforts to deport the 21-year-old, who has been in the U.S. since she was 7 and has lawful permanent resident status. A lawsuit was filed Monday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) got an administrative warrant for Chung's arrest and told the...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Trump administration officials for reportedly discussing plans for an attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen on a text chain that inadvertently included The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. “From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f‑‑‑up imaginable,” Buttigieg, a Navy veteran, wrote in a post on...
Vice President Vance reportedly said that he disliked “bailing Europe out again” when discussing Trump administration plans to bomb Houthi rebels in a group chat featuring other administration officials. According to a new report from The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, he gained access to a group chat on Signal featuring Trump administration officials such as...
The White House has picked Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as the new nominee to lead the agency. Monarez’s selection comes after the White House abruptly withdrew the nomination of former Florida congressman Dave Weldon to lead the agency hours before his confirmation hearing was set...
Voters in Pennsylvania are heading to the polls Tuesday to fill one vacant state House seat that will likely hand Democrats back their majority, as well as a vacant state Senate seat. The elections are taking place in House District 35, to replace former state Rep. Matt Gergely (D) following his death in January, and...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is holding a press conference as lawmakers contend with reporting that Trump administration officials discussed sensitive attack plans against the Houthis in Yemen in a Signal group chat to which a reporter had been added. The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported Monday that national security adviser Mike Waltz had apparently...
The company behind Roundup weedkiller herbicide was ordered to pay more than $2 billion in a man’s cancer lawsuit. According to his attorneys, John Barnes developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using Monsanto’s Roundup for two decades. The case resulted in a $2.065 billion verdict, Barnes’s lawyers said. The Associated Press reported that Bayer, the parent company...
