As the city’s 2019 ban on foie gras sales kicks in after years of litigation, the state’s highest court should take up a final appeal that could settle this...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and his brother, Scott Kelly, both retired astronauts, on Friday called out tech billionaire Elon Musk over his attacks on an astronaut on his social platform X. "Hey @ElonMusk, when you finally get the nerve to climb into a rocket ship, come talk to the three of us," the Arizona lawmaker...
The Pentagon seeks to cut more than 5,000 civilian employees on probation status beginning next week in a bid to eventually shave off up to 8 percent of the U.S. military’s civilian workforce, the building’s top personnel official said Friday. The firings, part of the Trump administration’s bid to gut the federal workforce, is expected to initially...
The Congressional Black Caucus is calling on President Trump to reinstate an education program designed to support students from rural and underserved communities pursuing degrees in agriculture and related fields at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The U.S. Department of Agriculture indefinitely suspended the 1890 Scholarship Program on Thursday. According to the USDA’s website,...
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and the alleged victim at the center of an assault investigation by Washington's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) are both denying that a "physical altercation" took place on Wednesday when D.C. authorities were called to the scene. The MPD is investigating Mills, who represents Florida's 7th Congressional District, after they were called...
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is in the process of reviewing the alleged "client list" of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as directed by President Trump.
The Associated Press sued White House officials Friday for restricting the wire service’s access to the Oval Office and Air Force One over its refusal to use “Gulf of America” in its AP Stylebook. Claiming the restrictions violate the outlet’s First Amendment rights and due process protections under the Fifth Amendment, the lawsuit asks a federal judge...
Arizona state lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that would ban the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to deny medical claims. The Arizona House of Representatives passed the legislation 58-0, with two lawmakers sitting out the vote, and it now heads to the state senate for consideration. The bill, which was sponsored by state Rep. Julie...
President Trump said Friday he was considering merging the U.S. Postal Service into his administration, calling the agency a “tremendous loser” of money. “We want to have a post office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money, and we're thinking about doing that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And it...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Trump's frustration with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid ongoing peace negotiations involving their war with Russia and shared that the previous administration had “frustrations” with the Ukrainian leader. “I think President Trump is very upset at President Zelensky and rightfully so. Look, number one, Joe Biden had frustrations...
If Trump were truly the master negotiator he claims to be, he would understand that you don’t start by announcing what you’re willing to concede for free.
Singer Madonna criticized President Trump on Friday for a recent post online in which he appeared to call himself a "king." "I thought this country was built by Europeans, escaping living under the rule of a King, to establish a New World governed by the people," she wrote on social platform X. "Currently we have...
