The White House is clapping back against media reports claiming intel officials have been using the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal to send classified information.
Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refused to answer whether Democrats' inflammatory rhetoric against Elon Musk is linked to attacks against Tesla owners and dealers.
Ron DeSantis intensified attacks on Randy Fine Wednesday, blaming Fine's "unique problems" for a narrow special election win in a Republican stronghold district.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to preserve all Signal communications over the span of several days as a lawsuit proceeds following revelations that officials discussed a military strike in a group chat on the encrypted messaging app – and unintentionally included a journalist. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who was randomly...
A new AccuWeather forecast predicts the U.S. could be bracing for a 2025 Atlantic hurricane season on par with last year’s, which brought six named storms directly to U.S. soil. This year, according to the forecast released Thursday, experts say three to six named storms could directly impact the United States. The 30-year historical average,...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the head of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, and her Democratic counterpart are challenging the Trump administration’s handling of emergency funding included in legislation passed earlier this month. In the letter addressed to President Trump’s budget chief Russell Vought, Collins and Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the top Democrat on the funding committee, take...
New Mexico is poised to become the third state to institute a full-fledged ban on products that contain toxic "forever chemicals," as two key bills head to the governor's desk. The concurrent pieces of legislation, which have both passed through the state legislature, would prohibit most items that contain these compounds, while also deeming specific...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday denounced President Trump’s recent executive order to make voting rules more strict, saying it’s an illegal power grab that will quickly be rejected by the courts. “The executive order that was recently issued by President Trump is not worth the paper it has been written on,” Jeffries...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the detention of a foreign Ph.D. student at Tufts University on Tuesday. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was seen in a video arrested by plain-clothes federal officers and taken away in an unmarked van. “If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be...
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed a law that ends the state's universal vote-by-mail system and requires registered voters to sign up separately to receive mail-in ballots, while also shortening the deadline for returning ballots to 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his Democratic colleagues are calling for a full, unredacted transcript of the Trump administration’s Signal group chat. “Yesterday’s revelations were alarming, but they were not enough. We need answers, more answers, because more damage may have been done than the public and all of us know,” Schumer said...
The White House has informed the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it is withdrawing Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, reflecting how critical her vote is in the House to passing President Trump’s agenda. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair James E. Risch (R-Idaho) received...
Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) on Thursday defended asking at a congressional hearing whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was drinking before sharing military attack plans in a Signal group chat of top-level national security officials, which mistakenly also included a prominent journalist. In an interview with CNN anchor John Berman, Gomez said he asked about the...
