Democratic leaders laid out their demands for reform at the Department of Homeland Security in a letter to Republican leadership on Wednesday, as lawmakers race to reach a compromise before the agency’s funding runs out in less than 10 days. A funding package passed earlier this week included a two-week stopgap measure for DHS, ensuring...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday he gave President Trump a list of major drug "kingpins" that both countries should work on arresting around the world. "Their capital is outside Colombia, and they must be pursued jointly through coordinated intelligence work across many sectors of the world,” Petro told reporters during a press conference at...
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D) signaled Tuesday to reporters that passing a new set of state congressional lines before November, seen as a key priority for Democrats, is likely doomed. “We are not prioritizing that piece of legislation,” Ferguson told reporters, according to The Baltimore Sun. “We don't have a habit in the Senate of moving forward things...
President Trump on Tuesday said that it’s “really time” for the country to move on from Jeffrey Epstein following the release of nearly 3 million more documents by the Justice Department late last week. “I think it’s really time for the country to get on to something else,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office....
A federal judge seems skeptical of the Pentagon’s bid to censure Sen. Mark Kelly and lower his retirement rank in the wake of a video in which the Arizona senator and other Democrats called on service members to reject unlawful orders. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, heard arguments Tuesday in Kelly’s lawsuit seeking to block the effort led by Defense Secretary Pete...
The Senate Democratic primary in Texas has taken an ugly turn, with the increased infighting threatening to complicate the party’s chances of flipping the seat in November. The most notable incident came this week when former Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), the Democratic nominee for Senate last cycle, ripped state Rep. James Talarico (D) for allegedly...
President Trump responded Tuesday to news of the deposition dates for former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of a House investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, calling it “a shame.” “I think it’s a shame to be honest. I always liked him. Her? Yeah. She’s a very...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced Tuesday that his state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the second state to do so since the U.S.’s withdrawal from the organization became official last month. Officials said Illinois’s participation means the state will now be “directly connected to timely...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday urged President Trump to put more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting that the current U.S. strategy to deter attacks on Ukraine is “not working.” “Clearly the pressure we’re applying to Putin to come to the peace table and stop massive attacks against Ukraine is not working,” Graham...
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) on Tuesday published a position statement recommending that surgeons delay "gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery" until a patient is 19 years old, drawing praise from the Trump administration for "protecting children from harmful sex-rejecting procedures." The ASPS, which represents more than 11,000 physicians globally, released its position...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) pushed back Tuesday morning on comments from U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro threatening jail time for people who carry firearms in the nation’s capital. “Second Amendment rights are not extinguished just because an American visits DC,” DeSantis wrote on social platform X. “American gun owners who...
Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, said Tuesday that he needs to answer for the allegations made against him in a newly released batch of documents related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “Whatever questions remain there of what I don’t — can't even begin to know all of it,...
House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday listened to the testimonies of U.S. citizens who said they were assaulted, injured or shot by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers, starting with the brothers of Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman shot and killed by a federal immigration officer last month. "The most important thing is to understand...
President Trump on Tuesday signed a bill to end a partial government shutdown after the funding legislation was held up by lawmakers who have been agitated over the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration enforcement efforts. The bill funds DHS for the next 10 days, with a new deadline set for that agency’s funding to...
