Texas dropped a major new voting-rights issue on the Supreme Court's doorstep Friday with an emergency request asking the justices to let the state use its new GOP-friendly map in the 2026 congressional elections.
House lawmakers spent their first full week back in Washington after the 43-day government shutdown fighting not just with the opposite party but within their own ranks.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell will “plead the Fifth” against congressional investigators. “Her lawyers have replied that she’s not going to answer any questions,” Comer told Politico in an interview Friday. “She’s only going to plead the Fifth.” ...
Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed an expedited motion seeking the release of the grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case amid an aggressive push by lawmakers to release all files related to the late convicted sex offender. Bondi filed the motion in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, leveraging the enactment of...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has proposed a rent freeze and the construction of 200,000 units of subsidized affordable housing, however, economists warn that this policy will exacerbate the city's housing problem and do more harm than good.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday said it removed the Mexican national that indicted Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan allegedly helped evade arrest. "Eduardo Flores-Ruiz has been DEPORTED," the department wrote on social platform X. "Judge Hannah Dugan's actions to obstruct this violent criminal’s arrest take 'activist judge' to a whole new...
House lawmakers have a laundry list of legislative priorities to focus on now that the government shutdown battle is behind them. Because the lower chamber was out of session for over a month, the next few weeks will be critical as lawmakers try to make up time and negotiate an annual defense policy bill, address...
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced early Saturday that the Justice Department (DOJ) captured a suspect who entered acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's New Jersey office earlier this week in an attempt to “confront” her. No injuries were reported following the Wednesday incident, but property was destroyed before the suspect fled the scene, according to Bondi....
President Trump on Saturday took his mounting criticism of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) a step further, accusing the lawmaker of being a "Republican in Name Only." "Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Saturday called for "a new way forward" after President Trump withdrew his endorsement amid the once-close duo's growing rift. Greene thanked those who showed their support in a post on social platform X, a day after Trump called her "wacky" and pulled back his support. He has also threatened...
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill) on Friday slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as the "biggest con artist ever," as tensions rise between Greene and Republican leaders, including President Trump. "She has not found Jesus, OK?" he said during an event at the Texas Tribune Festival. "Now, I guess it's a fair — it is...
At a time when the largest corporations in the U.S. are working to outmaneuver every kind of labor regulation, New Jersey has drawn a line in the sand. Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo have sued Amazon for misclassifying drivers on its Uber-like Flex delivery app as independent contractors, and for related wage-theft,...
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration cannot immediately cut funding or issues fines against the University of California (UC) system over its allegations of discrimination and antisemitism. U.S. District Court Judge Rita Lin placed a preliminary injunction against threats to funding, citing the administration's repeated vow to launch civil rights investigations...
