DNC Chair Ken Martin faces Republican backlash but support among Democrats after comparing Trump's America to Iran's theocracy amid Minneapolis ICE protests following fatal shooting.
House Democrats, including Rep. Glenn Ivey and Rep. Ro Khanna, say 43-day government shutdown elevated healthcare messaging despite failing to secure Obamacare subsidies initially.
Campaign filings show the gubernatorial campaign for Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., received almost $15k from a Beijing-based law firm and one of it's U.S.-based partners.
President Donald Trump recounted threatening President Emmanuel Macron with 25% tariffs on French goods to raise European drug prices during a White House roundtable.
The U.S. early Friday seized a fifth oil tanker linked to Venezuela in its campaign to control oil exports from the South American country. The Olina was seized in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea by the U.S. Coast Guard in coordination with the Defense Department, State Department and Justice Department, Homeland Security Secretary...
The Trump administration on Friday acknowledged it has begun to review the refugee status of Minnesota residents, alerting the public to the operation in the wake of an immigration officer’s killing of a Minneapolis woman. The announcement from U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services (USCIS) said that since mid-December the agency has conducted “a sweeping initiative...
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday that President Trump has agreed to release two Russian crew members on an oil tanker the U.S. Coast Guard seized in the North Atlantic earlier this week. The Bella 1, a sanctioned ship in the global “dark fleet,” began flying a Russian flag on Dec. 24, days after...
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is accusing the White House of spreading “horrific lies” about her in response to a report that the White House reported her to the Secret Service. An Axios article published Friday revealed the White House gave Greene's name to the Secret Service, believing she shared information with an anti-war...
Five state attorneys general announced Thursday that they are suing the Trump administration for freezing $10 billion in child care and family assistance funding in five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Tuesday in a press release that the freeze was due to "serious concerns about widespread fraud and misuse...
Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) are planning to introduce a bill that would strip federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers of their qualified immunity protections. The bill, called the ICE OUT Act, comes amid fervent debate over whether an ICE officer should face criminal prosecution for the fatal shooting of 37-year-old...
President Trump downplayed Republicans’ midterm expectations in an interview with Sean Hannity that aired Thursday, acknowledging that the president’s party “always loses” no matter how successful they deem themselves to be. “If you go back a long way, the sitting president, whether it’s Democrat or Republican, always loses the midterm, even if they’ve done well....
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus will speak with reporters Friday morning, nearly a week after the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and President Trump declared the U.S. in control of the country and its oil infrastructure. The press conference also comes after the Senate advanced a bipartisan resolution on the War Powers Act to...
President Trump on Friday said he canceled an "expected second Wave of Attacks" on Venezuela, less than a week after U.S. strikes in Caracas resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. "Venezuela is releasing large numbers of political prisoners as a sign of 'Seeking Peace,'" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social....
The U.S. added 50,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4 percent in December, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Economists expected the December jobs report to show a gain of roughly 55,000 jobs and the jobless rate to tick down to 4.5 percent, according to consensus estimates. The Bureau...
President Trump on Friday is expected to meet with oil and executives, as the administration advances its efforts to capitalize on Venezuela's massive oil reserves following last weekend's raid. The fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Wednesday has raised tensions nationally, as Republicans and Democrats...
