A defense appropriations bill that cleared a House-Senate conference this week will ban Pentagon military and civilian officials from using government credit cards to pay for nude entertainment at topless bars.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is accusing the White House of spreading “horrific lies” about her in response to a report that the White House reported her to the Secret Service. An Axios article published Friday revealed the White House gave Greene's name to the Secret Service, believing she shared information with an anti-war...
Five state attorneys general announced Thursday that they are suing the Trump administration for freezing $10 billion in child care and family assistance funding in five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Tuesday in a press release that the freeze was due to "serious concerns about widespread fraud and misuse...
Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) are planning to introduce a bill that would strip federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers of their qualified immunity protections. The bill, called the ICE OUT Act, comes amid fervent debate over whether an ICE officer should face criminal prosecution for the fatal shooting of 37-year-old...
President Trump downplayed Republicans’ midterm expectations in an interview with Sean Hannity that aired Thursday, acknowledging that the president’s party “always loses” no matter how successful they deem themselves to be. “If you go back a long way, the sitting president, whether it’s Democrat or Republican, always loses the midterm, even if they’ve done well....
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus will speak with reporters Friday morning, nearly a week after the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and President Trump declared the U.S. in control of the country and its oil infrastructure. The press conference also comes after the Senate advanced a bipartisan resolution on the War Powers Act to...
President Trump on Friday said he canceled an "expected second Wave of Attacks" on Venezuela, less than a week after U.S. strikes in Caracas resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. "Venezuela is releasing large numbers of political prisoners as a sign of 'Seeking Peace,'" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social....
The U.S. added 50,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4 percent in December, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. Economists expected the December jobs report to show a gain of roughly 55,000 jobs and the jobless rate to tick down to 4.5 percent, according to consensus estimates. The Bureau...
President Trump on Friday is expected to meet with oil and executives, as the administration advances its efforts to capitalize on Venezuela's massive oil reserves following last weekend's raid. The fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Wednesday has raised tensions nationally, as Republicans and Democrats...
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A week ago, it looked like Minnesota Democrats had stumbled into a scandal that might cost their party any chance to win back the U.S. Senate and at the very least turn a safe gubernatorial race into a desperate fight. A reliable mid-single digit win for Democrats on the presidential level even in tough years,...
Hundreds of people took to the streets on Thursday to protest the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis earlier this week. The anger among demonstrators grew even more Thursday, after reports emerged of a separate shooting involving Border Patrol in Portland, Ore., which left...
