The anti-abortion movement's patience with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is wearing thin following the agency’s recent approval of a second generic version of mifepristone, one of two drugs taken for a medication abortion. President Trump repeatedly pledged during the campaign last year that he would leave abortion policy to the states, but...
New Jersey GOP gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli said on Friday that he never saw Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill’s leaked military records, as his opponent has sought to attack him over its circulation. “I never saw those files, nor did I put the request in. And anybody that states otherwise is lying,” Ciattarelli told anchor Dan...
A federal judge on Friday ruled that there is "realistic likelihood" the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was "vindictive." "The Court holds that the totality of events creates a sufficient evidentiary basis to conclude that there is a 'realistic likelihood of vindictiveness' that entitles Abrego...
New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill rated New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) tenure as a “B” on Friday, crediting him for his efforts funding state pensions and the state’s positive crediting rates while expressing frustration with the culture of Trenton. “I think I'd give him about a ‘B,” Sherrill told anchor Dan Mannarino...
A federal worker union sued the Trump administration on Friday due to automatic email responses from employees at the Education Department that blame Democrats for the government shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) represented by the Democracy Forward and Public Citizen Litigation Group sent a cease and desist letter, and also filed a...
New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill (D) declined to endorse New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani during a forum on Friday, underscoring how some members of his party still see him as politically toxic. “I am not getting engaged in that race because I'm completely focused on New Jersey. I'm going to let the...
There are concerns tax-based marriage incentives could marginalize unmarried people and may not address deeper economic or social challenges facing families.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday fired Navy chief of staff Jon Harrison, delivering a blow to the insider who helped rewire internal protocols to fit the vision of the Trump administration’s defense agenda. Harrison’s removal comes after the confirmation of Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao, whom President Trump appointed to serve as the second-most senior...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Thursday warned a government shutdown could threaten nuclear weapons safety with funding on the verge of a lapse about a week. “We have about eight more days of funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the overseer of our nuclear weapons stockpile, the engines that power our nuclear submarines and...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito touched on two lightning rod cases Friday in explaining the pitfalls and promises of originalism. The conservative justice mentioned the Obergefell ruling that legalized same-sex marriage and the sweeping presidential immunity ruling the court handed down last year as he opined about how adherents to his legal theory of...
The Trump administration said Friday it would offer to pay migrant children to self deport in its latest mass deportation effort. The Health and Human Services Department’s Administration for Children and Families emailed migrant shelters saying children 14 years of age and older would get $2,500 each, according to a copy obtained by The Associated...
Award-winning Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara has been deported to El Salvador in what press freedom advocates alleged was done “in retaliation for his reporting.” A leader with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonprofit organization that defends worldwide press freedom, said Guevara's deportation from the U.S. Friday morning was the first time the organization...
