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.
President Trump has sought to take shortcuts in the otherwise lengthy regulatory process via executive order that could mark a notable expansion in presidential power. In recent weeks, Trump has directed federal agencies to withdraw various rules, sunset vast swaths of environmental protections and give regulatory exemptions to dozens of coal plants. Such moves would mean skipping...
In today’s issue: President Trump’s efforts to persuade international partners to join the U.S. in isolating China collided Wednesday with a starkly downbeat 2025 economic outlook from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, dashing the hopes of those looking for global certainty anytime soon. Multiple tariff deals Trump hopes to negotiate with Asian nations are becoming...
President Trump’s potential tariffs on semiconductors are stoking alarm within the technology sector as companies brace for the ripple effects across the industry and its competitive standing on a global stage. The Trump administration launched an investigation this week into the effects on national security of importing semiconductor technology, just one day after the president...
Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) has requested a congressional delegation to visit a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has sent numerous deportees. In a Wednesday letter addressed to House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Ramirez asked “that the House Committee on Homeland Security authorize a Congressional Member Delegation (CODEL) to...
Former President Biden spoke with students at the Harvard Kennedy School in an off-the-record study group on Wednesday at the invitation of his longtime adviser, Mike Donilon. Donilon is one of nine fellows at the school's Institute of Politics for the spring. He was the chief strategist for Biden's 2020 campaign, served as a senior adviser...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday announced the cancelation of more than $2.7 million in grants to Harvard University amid tensions between the school and the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a Wednesday press release that Noem unveiled the discontinuation of two grants from the department to Harvard worth...
Chris Krebs, a former top Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) official, is leaving the private sector to challenge a Trump administration probe. Krebs said in a Wednesday email that he was “stepping away from” the cybersecurity company SentinelOne “effective immediately.” “For those who know me, you know I don't shy away from tough fights....
The Trump administration asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status on Wednesday, a day after President Trump suggested the idea. Andrew De Mello, the IRS’s acting chief counsel, received an inquiry from the Treasury Department on Wednesday requesting that the agency rescind the Ivy League school's tax-exemption status, according to...
The fight over the location of the U.S. Space Command headquarters chugs on after a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog revealed uncertainty behind the scenes in choosing the permanent spot and several major questions left unanswered. In a heavily redacted 54-page report, released Tuesday by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General (IG), investigators...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday its member states had reached an agreement on preparing for and responding to future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations. With negotiations having launched in 2021, WHO member states have compiled a draft agreement for consideration at the upcoming World Health Assembly next month. The proposal...
Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.), 66, was admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) at a New Jersey hospital and was said to be dealing with "an extended recovery that could require physical rehabilitation,” according to a Tuesday press release from his office. Norcross was transferred to Cooper University Health Care on April 7 "following a...
