With gasoline prices hovering near $4.50 a gallon amid the Iran war, calls to suspend federal and state gas taxes are gaining momentum. Multiple states, including Indiana and Georgia this week, have either suspended or reduced their own fuel taxes to ease prices at the pump elevated by the seven-month conflict. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp...
As the midterm landscape grows more favorable for Democrats, Republicans are still poised for key pickups in the fight for House control. Forecasters have shifted a slate of House races away from Republicans in recent weeks amid voter frustration with President Trump and the GOP's handling of the economy, immigration and the war in Iran, fueling...
Republicans are growing increasingly worried that data centers are a liability in the midterms, as concerns over higher power bills tied to the facilities turn into a pocketbook issue for voters. The debate over the issue was on full display Wednesday, after Senate Democrats blocked legislation championed by Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) — who is...
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has sought to move the central bank away from forecasting its policy decisions during his four-plus months in charge. But after the Fed raised interest rates earlier this month, multiple officials have indicated future hikes are coming. “If the economy evolves in a manner broadly consistent with my forecast, one...
Democratic candidate Cait Conley inched ahead of incumbent Rep. Mike Lawler (R) in New York’s 17th Congressional District House race, up two percentage points in polling results released Thursday. The Emerson College and PIX11 survey found around 48 percent of likely voters in the district supported Conley, while 46 percent backed the Republican lawmaker. The...
President Trump’s upcoming campaign stops in a number of red states are raising eyebrows as Democrats seek to expand the midterm map ahead of November’s midterm elections. This week, Trump is slated to visit Oklahoma and Alabama, in addition to making stops in the swing states of Ohio and Texas. The president is also set...
President Trump said during a Hispanic Heritage Month event on Wednesday that only Hispanics could survive a fall from the site of the White House ballroom. The president made the remark in the East Room after inviting the event’s attendees to step onto the floor of the new ballroom outside. “There’s a tunnel going to...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Tennessee can put Christa Pike to death, lifting an eleventh-hour appeals court ruling that had paused the execution. The court's decision clears the way for the state's first execution of a woman in more than 200 years. It came over the dissent of the three liberal justices. Pike,...
The Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) criticized the Trump administration over its rollback of Title IX protections and expressed support for Jane Doe, who accused seven men of raping her over several hours at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University. The caucus chair, Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), along with the vice chairs, Reps....
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) received federal security clearance Wednesday, nine months after he entered office. "I have my security clearance now," Mamdani told reporters at a Wednesday press conference. With the new clearance, he is able to review classified documents. Before he was issued the credentials, Mamdani was relying on New York...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a flurry of announcements during a wide-ranging speech to active-duty officers Wednesday. At the beginning of the address, the Pentagon chief stuck to his bread and butter: culture-war grievances, stripping the “woke” out of the Department of Defense (DOD), bashing the news media for its coverage of the Iran war,...
