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RNC takes steps toward a 2026 GOP midterm convention

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Republicans are one step closer to finalizing plans for a midterm convention later this year. The Republican National Committee approved a rule change during its...

DOJ urges Supreme Court to block California map, calls Newsom-backed plan a racial gerrymander

Department of Justice asks Supreme Court to block California's congressional map, alleging the state improperly factored race into redistricting under Proposition 50.

GOP lawmaker’s absence nearly hands Democrats win on Trump war powers

Rep. Wesley Hunt nearly cost Republicans a key vote on Trump's Venezuela war powers after arriving 20 minutes late to the House chamber Thursday.

Progressive Dem Jasmine Crockett targets Trump deportation flights with new ‘TRACK ICE’ bill

Democrats introduced the TRACK ICE Act requiring transparency for deportation flights amid Minneapolis tensions. The bill would mandate 72-hour disclosure.

Blocking ICE cooperation fueled Minnesota unrest, officials warn as Virginia reverses course

ICE arrests surge in sanctuary states as federal officials say local cooperation prevents chaos. Kentucky, Alabama leaders contrast their approach.

Trump calls off plans to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

President Trump said Thursday he would not deploy federal troops to San Francisco, reversing course on plans to implement anticrime and immigration enforcement in the Bay Area. Trump in a post on Truth Social said friends of his called him to ask him not to go forward with the surge after arguing the city’s Democratic...

Trump refugee policy would make America white again 

President Donald Trump is considering giving preferential treatment to white Christians from South Africa and Europe seeking to enter the U.S. as refugees, which would be a racist attack on diversity and limit the number of refugees allowed to enter the U.S. to 7,500 in 2026.

See photos of the White House’s demolished East Wing

President Trump had the East Wing of the White House demolished this week, a change of course from previous statements that his massive, privately funded ballroom addition would be near but not touch the structure. Starting Monday, construction equipment broke the facade of the portion of the White House complex that was home to offices...

Platner says ‘no reason to deny’ antigay slurs in posts: ‘It’s indefensible’

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admitted on Wednesday to authoring a series of antigay Reddit posts and called his past comments “indefensible.” “I have no reason to deny [that the posts are mine],” Platner said in a Zoom interview with The Advocate, the LGBT news magazine that first reported on the controversial posts on...

NBA veterans charged in betting schemes linked to mafia

Three NBA players and coaches were among more than 30 individuals indicted by federal prosecutors in charges unsealed Thursday as part of a large-scale illegal betting investigation linking the sports figures with organized crime families. Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former Cleveland Cavaliers player Damon Jones were arrested Thursday...

The AWS outage exposed the cloud’s flaws: Here’s how to protect it

Monday's massive outage shows just how important it is that cloud companies act now to fix this critical infrastructure. 

Medicare agency recalling thousands of furloughed staffers for open enrollment

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is temporarily calling back all furloughed staff starting next week, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Open enrollment for traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans began Oct. 15, while the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace starts Nov. 1. According to the Department of Health and Human Services shutdown plan, 47 percent of CMS...

Who would be paid and when under Senate GOP shutdown pay bill

The Senate is voting Thursday on legislation sponsored by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) that would pay “excepted” employees, or federal workers who have to stay at work in spite of the funding lapse. The legislation is being considered as the government shutdown goes into its fourth week. Democrats on Wednesday blocked a House-passed bill to...

Fetterman: Harris ‘lost the plot’ when she called Trump a ‘fascist’

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman (D) says former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2024, “lost the plot” when she called President Trump a “fascist.” Fetterman made his comments during an interview with Fox News’s “Hannity”. Asked by the show’s host, Sean Hannity, why Democrats are comparing Trump to authoritarian leaders...

Live updates: Senate GOP puts Democrats on the spot with military pay bill as shutdown hits Day 23

The Senate on Thursday is scheduled to vote on whether to pay some federal employees, including service members, as the government shutdown stretches into its fourth week.  The plight of military families has been central to the GOP’s shutdown strategy, and Republican leaders hope to put Democrats on the spot with the bill sponsored by...

Sanders: Platner probably ‘not the only American to have gone through a dark period’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is downplaying outrage against Graham Platner, who he is backing in the Democratic Senate primary in Maine, over Platner's controversial posts on Reddit and a tattoo that resembles a Nazi “totenkopf.” Sanders said there are “more important issues” than Graham’s decision to get a tattoo while serving in the Marines. “He went...

Why Ken Paxton is Democrats’ favorite Republican 

Ken Paxton’s baggage will drain the GOP war chest and cost the Senate majority in 2026.

Watch live: Senate to vote on pay for military, federal workers as shutdown persists

The Senate on Thursday afternoon is set to vote on the Shutdown Fairness Act — a bill introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) that would provide pay for service members and excepted workers as the government shutdown stretches into a fourth week. Democrats have also weighed their own version of a bill that would include...

The Supreme Court could force Congress’s hand on executive discretion

Limited government requires not only laws but also the ambition of the political branches to check each other.

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