Texas hospitals face over $1 billion in costs linked to illegal immigrants in first year of tracking, with 313,742 visits recorded under Gov. Greg Abbott's order.
A bipartisan, bicameral group lawmakers traveled to Denmark to reassure NATO ally amid President Donald Trump's push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland.
Working Families Party launches PrimaryFetterman.com targeting Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman for 2028 primary, alleging he "sold out" his 2022 supporters.
President Trump on Wednesday signed a government funding bill to officially end the longest shutdown in history after 43 days. Trump signed legislation in the Oval Office, where he placed blame for the shutdown on Democrats while surrounded by Republicans lawmakers and other GOP officials. “Today we are sending a clear message that we will...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday issued an emergency order to freeze flight reductions, keeping the 6 percent reduction in place. The emergency order, issued by Duffy and FAA administrator Bryan Bedford, came following "a recommendations from the agency's safety team," according to a statement. The current reduction level...
Six House Democrats on Wednesday crossed the aisle to vote in favor of a funding measure aimed at ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The Democrats provided a cushion for Speaker Johnson (R-La.) to get the measure across the finish line after two House Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Greg Steube...
Dozens of congressional Democrats in a series of letters on Wednesday urged states across the country to “block" Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) access to driver data. “We write to alert you to the fact that your state is providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies with frictionless, self-service access to the...
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) slammed his Republican colleagues on Tuesday by referring to one of their outspoken allies as a testament to how much the GOP "messed up" their control of Congress. “Republicans have been in charge for 292 days. That’s 292 days to do something, anything, to lower costs, to bring down prices, to...
Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, hours after Democrats on the committee released emails in which the disgraced financier alleged that President Trump "knew about the girls." Earlier Wednesday, Democrats on the committee released three emails...
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.), a rare Democrat who has defended President Trump at times, on Wednesday said new reports that the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Trump in detail in his emails is “absolutely troubling.” “I have followed it, of course,” Fetterman told CNN’s Dana Bash when asked about Epstein’s emails mentioning Trump. “Yeah,...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said lawmakers could vote on releasing all of the files tied to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before the end of the year. “Look, we're going to get the 218th signature today. That means by early December we're going to get a full vote on the Epstein files,”...
President Trump and other administration officials reached out to key Republicans who have signed on to an effort to force a vote on releasing files about Jeffrey Epstein in the hours before the push was set to succeed on Wednesday. CNN reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel...
President Trump warned Republicans Wednesday against engaging with the latest round of documents released from the Jeffrey Epstein case, which included emails in which the sex offender referenced Trump. "The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that President Trump “remains in exceptional health” following a question about an MRI he underwent last month. “As stated in the memo provided on Oct. 10, President Trump received advanced imaging at Walter Reed Medical Center as part of his routine physical examination,” Leavitt told reporters...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is making his presence known at the United Nations climate summit, slamming the Trump administration for “doubling down on stupid” by missing talks in Belém, Brazil. Newsom, a potential Democratic nominee for president in 2028, is among the top American politicians at COP30. He had terse words for his political...
Affordability, affordability, affordability — that is the word on everyone’s minds. Democrats performed well in last week’s elections by focusing on this very theme, which encompasses housing availability and inflation and education costs and child care and health care and so many other things. When they discuss “affordability” in vague terms, Democrats are even...
