Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy isn't drawing stadium-size crowds like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are as he tours the country talking to voters. But in a packed concert hall in rural North Carolina, people are starting to view the Democrat as worthy of the national spotlight.
A few dozen women gathered at a posh Miami brewery on a recent evening to listen to U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart outline the Republican plans to retain their slim House majority in next year's elections.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Thursday denounced the vandalization of the state GOP headquarters in Albany. Police say an individual taped swastikas and a message that read, "If this is not what you stand for, prove it," on the building's doors and windows overnight. “This is unacceptable. No one should ever resort to...
UnitedHealth Group’s stock dropped sharply on Thursday after the insurance giant slashed its earnings outlook for 2025. The announcement led to a broad drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 527 points, or 1.3 percent. The reason: People enrolled in its Medicare plans needed more care than anticipated. For an insurance company,...
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D) said during a recent interview that President Trump is “very effectively flooding the zone” and that Democratic Party lawmakers have not done enough to counter the president’s agenda, so far. “I think that Trump is very effectively flooding the zone. I think that he has people on their heels. People...
Florida first lady Casey DeSantis' welfare initiative, Hope Florida, was disrupted by trolls who broadcasted Nazi symbols and pornography during a Zoom meeting, prompting the Department of Children and Families to apologize and take action to address the incident.
President Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum extending a freeze on hiring federal civilian employees into mid-July as his administration looks to slash the size and scope of the government. The memorandum states that no civilian government role that is currently vacant will be filled, and no new positions will be created unless stipulated by...
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) criticized Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s (R) efforts during his tenure as Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) chief of staff to stop a ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. In a post on social platform X, Gaetz referenced a column by retired Florida Supreme Court Justice Alan Lawson on...
Minnesota’s first lady, Gwen Walz, slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F Kennedy Jr. over comments he made about autism on Wednesday. In a Wednesday press conference on a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Kennedy said that “autism destroys families.” “More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which...
President Trump on Thursday floated a wider crackdown on tax-exempt entities after his administration asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status this week. “Tax-exempt status, I mean, that’s a privilege. It’s really a privilege. And it’s been abused. By a lot more than Harvard, too,” Trump told reporters in the...
President Trump on Thursday called a deadly shooting at Florida State University (FSU) "terrible," but he dismissed the possibility of it spurring any changes to gun laws in the country. "Look, I'm a big advocate of the Second Amendment. I have been from the beginning. I've protected it, and these things are terrible," Trump told...
A Trump administration appointee asked the IRS in March to review an audit of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a close President Trump ally, according to The Washington Post, which cited two people familiar with the matter and records that the news outlet obtained. The Treasury Department official, David Eisner, wrote an email last month to...
