Democratic lawmakers affirm pride in American democracy and freedoms while voicing concerns about the administration ahead of the 250th Independence Day.
President Trump declared communism the greatest threat facing the USA and vowed the country would never become a communist nation in his Mount Rushmore speech.
President Trump on Friday issued a “fierce rebuke” of communism as part of his Independence Day kickoff speech, injecting partisan rancor into remarks commemorating America’s 250th birthday with Mount Rushmore as the backdrop. Speaking in Keystone, South Dakota, Trump declared that “such doctrines can be given no quarter,” issuing a thinly-veiled dark threat against less...
Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary on Saturday, almost half of Americans do not know what the day celebrates, according to a new survey released on Thursday. A nation-wide poll conducted by the libertarian think tank Cato Institute found that only 53 percent of respondents could correctly identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday said the U.S. military looks “to be unpredictable” in putting American troops on Iranian territory amid speculation of a U.S. ground invasion. “We’re not going to foreclose any option,” Hegseth said during a Pentagon briefing when asked to respond to criticism from those who support President Trump but don’t...
The White House is maintaining its support for Casey Means to be the next U.S. surgeon general one day after President Trump said he was open to withdrawing her nomination. Trump said over the weekend that he did not know how Means, sister of White House senior adviser Calley Means, was doing in the nomination...
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) on Monday signed the state’s first income tax on residents making more than $1 million annually. The “millionaire’s tax,” which advanced by the state Legislature last Wednesday and will impose a 9.9 percent annual tax on qualifying earners, is expected to boost the state’s budget by $4 billion. The funds...
California Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla sent a letter Monday to top immigration officials, requesting more information on data sharing between the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a woman was arrested in front of her child at San Francisco International Airport last week. “The reporting following this...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson broke with her two fellow liberal justices Tuesday as she dissented alone from the Supreme Court’s decision backing a challenge to Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban. “To do anything else opens a dangerous can of worms,” Jackson wrote in her 35-page dissent. “It threatens to impair States’ ability to regulate the provision...
Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) are warning the FBI against releasing files in a decade-old case related to an investigation into a Chinese spy. The cease and desist letter comes amid reports FBI agents and other personnel in California have been directed to gather and redact sensitive information from documents in preparation for sharing...
The Iranian military struck a Kuwaiti oil tanker off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday morning, just a day after President Trump issued a stark warning against such a move. The Dubai Media Office said in a Tuesday post on social platform X that there were no reported injuries or oil leaks...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday morning, in the fifth week of the Iran conflict, that regime change "has occurred" in Iran and echoed the president in pushing U.S. allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at allies over their reluctance to help secure Iran’s Strait...
President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at allies over their reluctance to help secure Iran’s Strait of Hormuz, telling them to either buy U.S. oil or get it themselves from the critical waterway. “All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to...
