President Trump announced Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that eliminate an electric vehicle (EV) mandate introduced under the Biden administration. The 2024 EV mandate aimed to facilitate the transition from gas-powered to EVs by setting new pollution standards for automakers' vehicle fleets, which were intentionally difficult to meet without introducing new electric or...
Former Kennedy Center employees accused the iconic performing arts venue's leadership in a letter to Congress of halting planned waterproofing repairs earlier this year. In the Thursday letter, David Seide, an attorney representing the whistleblowers, shared internal documents which he said challenged the Kennedy Center board's claims that these leaks constituted the venue's immediate closure. ...
Legislation that could have ended a years-long freeze on pay raises for lawmakers was changed to uphold the pause as it passed out of committee on Thursday. The House Appropriations Committee sent the annual spending bill to fund the legislative branch to the floor for consideration with a 33-24 vote. The House is expected to...
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) defended former President Trump after reporting surfaced that he called Milwaukee a “horrible city” in a closed-door meeting with Republicans earlier Thursday. "Well, he said nothing that I considered an insult to Milwaukee,” Grothman, who was in the meeting with Trump, said on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” when asked about the remarks....
Families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims moved to take over Alex Jones’ social media accounts on Thursday as a bankruptcy lawsuit over his estate moves into liquidation proceedings. Jones, who was held liable for nearly $1.5 billion in damages for his false claims that the 2012 massacre was in some way faked, has attempted...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) expressed disappointment on Thursday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) attended the meeting with former President Trump at the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s headquarters on Capitol Hill on Thursday. In an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront," Schumer was asked whether he was surprised that McConnell shook Trump's...
Former President Trump said his vice president pick was “probably” in the room with him while meeting with House and Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday, adding intrigue to the long-anticipated decision. Trump told Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie that he’s still not sure who his vice-presidential candidate will be. “I have sort of a...
Former President Trump pondered alien lifeforms on a podcast appearance published Thursday, acknowledging that “there could be” alien life out in the universe, but that he wasn’t convinced. Trump appeared on YouTuber Logan Paul's "Impaulsive," where he spent minutes discussing the possibility of life beyond Earth and whether unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) could in fact...
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson fiercely defended his home turf after reports surfaced that former President Trump called it a “horrible city” in a meeting with congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “If Donald Trump wants to talk about things that he thinks are horrible — all of us lived through his presidency, so, right...
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) announced Thursday he is launching a probe into a news-rating system that seeks to guard against misinformation by scoring news and information sites based on their reliability, trustworthiness and financial conflict of interest. Comer said the probe will focus on “the impact of NewsGuard on protected First Amendment...
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chaired the committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, sharply rebuked former President Trump for returning to Capitol Hill on Thursday — the first time since that infamous day. “After inciting a deadly insurrection that defiled the halls of Congress, how dare Trump show his...
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon are threatening to erupt into a full-scale war, compounding President Biden’s problems just as optimism about a cease-fire in Gaza fades. There have been clashes between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants since the day after Hamas attacked southern Israel last October. But the intensity of the conflict on Israel’s...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an effort by abortion opponents to limit access to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used for a medication abortion. The case was brought by a group of anti-abortion doctors in Texas called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which formed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision ending...
A majority of Republicans joined with Democrats on Thursday to vote down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) amendment to the annual Defense bill that called for preventing any funds in the legislation from going toward assistance for Ukraine. The chamber voted 74-343 on Greene’s measure for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with all support coming...
Two Senate bills from different sides of the aisle aimed at protecting access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) were voted down this week amid bipartisan squabbling. The Right to IVF Act — sponsored by Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Cory Booker (N.J.) — and the IVF Protection Act — sponsored by...
