Honduras on Wednesday declared President Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura the winner of the presidential election, ending a weeks-long vote count that sparked international concern. The conservative National Party candidate won the Nov. 30 election with 40.27 percent of the vote, beating out conservative Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla, who received 39.53 percent of the vote,...
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to block New York’s so-called Green Light Law, which allows the state to issue driver’s licenses to people without requiring proof that they’re in the country legally. U.S. District Judge Anne Nardacci in Albany ruled that the Trump administration failed to support its claims that...
President Donald Trump told kids they're 'high IQ' and praised "clean, beautiful coal" during Christmas Eve NORAD Santa tracker calls from Mar-a-Lago with Melania.
Just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday, while 73 percent disapprove. That approval rating marks a new low since Quinnipiac began asking the question in 2009, surpassing the 19 percent of voters who approved of Democrats in July. The results come about...
Former Vice President Harris said in a new interview that members of her party were “very much stuck in the past” and suggested Democrats “give a lot of lip service to listening to people” but don’t actually engage. “In some ways, we are very much stuck in the past, and so we're not speaking in...
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) defended her office’s 2020 election subversion case against President Trump and his allies with vigor Wednesday at a state Senate hearing scrutinizing the prosecution. Across three hours of testimony, Willis denied deciding to pursue charges against Trump before taking office and doubled down on the credentials of prosecutors she hand-picked for the case. The top Georgia prosecutor also stood by the...
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday said that adding his name to a discharge petition to force the House to vote on extending soon-to-expire ObamaCare subsidies for three years "is not an indictment" of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). "This is not an indictment of him," Lawler told CNN's Dana Bash. "He has a very difficult...
Democrats are feeling something they have not felt in a while: momentum. After a string of recent wins, there is real belief inside the party that flipping the House next year is possible. Anti-Trump anger is motivating voters, and a renewed focus on affordability is finally cutting through. But energy alone does not win elections. Clarity...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr suggested on Wednesday that the agency is not independent from President Trump's administration after being pressed by senators on Capitol Hill about whom he answers to as chair of the commission. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) repeatedly pressed Carr about his agency's obligation to conduct oversight of major media companies...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Democrats will speak with reporters Wednesday afternoon to unveil a new initiative to lower costs. Democrats have leaned heavily into the affordability message in recent weeks, following a slew of key election wins and as high prices and inflation have taken a toll on President Trump's and...
Zohran Mamdani has been elected Mayor of New York City, and is promising to lower costs and make life easier for New Yorkers through rent freezes, free childcare, and non-profit city owned grocery stores, funded by tax increases on corporations and wealthy residents.
LIVE Video: House to vote on GOP-led health care bill, without ACA subsidies Just ahead of a House procedural vote Wednesday on a narrow, GOP-crafted health care bill, four Republican members defied their own leadership and joined a Democratic discharge petition that would force a vote on the House floor on extending Affordable Care Act...
