Senate prepares test vote tonight on GOP spending plan to end government shutdown. Bill would reopen government through Jan. 30, requiring 60 votes to break filibuster.
As the Senate held a rare Sunday session, the Republican leader said a potential deal was "coming together" on the government shutdown but there was no guarantee it would end an impasse now stretching to 40 days.
Red state residents have long loved to gripe about New Yorkers invading their territory, so it's been more than a little striking to see Republican governors openly welcome Big Apple residents who might want to flee before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani forges the city into a socialist paradise.
The Supreme Court eliminated so-called "Chevron deference" more than a year ago. Hatched from the 1984 Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council ruling, the doctrine held that courts should defer to agency interpretations of the laws authorizing their activities if the language was ambiguous. Over four decades, this misguided doctrine had warped the balance of power in...
President Trump on Monday once again teased an attempt to run for a third-term, telling reporters while en route to Japan that he “would love to do it.” “I haven’t really thought about it. We have some very good people as you know…but I have the best poll numbers that I’ve ever had,” Trump said...
Not satisfied with simply bankrolling Democratic candidates, the National Education Association now offers a compendium of teacher prep materials for educators. The catch? It’s a functional checklist of some of the worst ideas in education. Their “micro-credential library” includes entire modules dedicated not to the science of reading or student discipline, but to gay and transgender...
A U.S. military ship on Sunday docked in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago amid tensions in the Caribbean sparked by U.S. military action against boats accused of attempting to smuggle fentanyl to the U.S., The Associated Press reported. The ship is a guided missile destroyer named the USS Gravely, according to the AP. The...
President Trump said former Vice President Pence would “go down as a wimp” during a call on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, according to a new book. "You'll go down as a wimp," Trump said to the former vice president, discussing the choice Pence made to not stop the certification of...
Two U.S. Navy aircraft went down in the South China Sea in separate incidents on Sunday, according to the U.S. Pacific Fleet. All of the crew members in both incidents were successfully recovered by search and rescue units, it said. The first incident involved a U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, which went down in...
President Trump and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met Sunday in Malaysia amid trade tensions between their two countries. “President Trump meets with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at [Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)] summit,” the White House’s account on the social platform X posted Sunday, featuring a photo of...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed in a BBC interview about why she didn’t raise concerns about former President Biden’s health before he decided to pull out of the race. In an interview with the BBC, Harris was asked about a segment in her new book, “107 Days,” in which she notes that she...
President Trump on Sunday once again urged pregnant women not to take Tylenol unless "absolutely necessary," to avoid giving the over-the-counter drug to children "for virtually any reason" and to break up certain vaccine dosages. Trump's renewed call comes a month after he and top health officials said pregnant women should not take acetaminophen —...
A mayor from the Canadian province of Ontario defended an advertisement paid for by his province that includes remarks from former President Reagan to criticize President Trump's tariffs. The ad angered Trump, who has since said he will impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Canada's exports to the United States. “I support the premier's...
Senators from both parties are expressing concerns about President Trump’s unilateral approach to conducting military strikes against alleged drug cartel boats in the Caribbean. On the Sunday show circuit, several lawmakers raised questions about the legality of the U.S. military campaign — which last week carried out its 10th attack in recent months on vessels...
