Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.
Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...
Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...
A pair of top journalists for The Associated Press covering the White House testified on Thursday to the damage caused to the outlet by President Trump’s decision to revoke its access to key West Wing spaces over the organization’s refusal to use “Gulf of America” in its widely used stylebook. AP Chief White House Correspondent...
More than three-quarters of scientists in the U.S are weighing leaving the country and are looking at Europe and Canada as their top relocation spots, according to a new survey released on Thursday. The scientific journal Nature poll found that 75.3 percent of scientists are considering leaving the U.S. after the administration cut funding for...
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...
