Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.
Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...
Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick raised alarm over “fraudsters” receiving Social Security benefits, as Trump allies have ramped up rhetoric about potential waste in the program amid a major restructuring effort at the agency that oversees the program. During an appearance on the "All-In" podcast that was released on Thursday, Lutnick said the government doesn’t “have...
A federal judge chastised a Justice Department attorney Friday, expressing doubt about the legality of the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has sparred all week with the Trump administration over whether last weekend’s deportation flights deliberately ignored his orders to turn around airborne planes. President Trump himself has repeatedly...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) said Thursday he thinks the American people do not seem to have "a whole lot of faith in either party, Democrats or Republicans." Sanders told Fox News in an interview that voter registration and recent polling indicating the Democratic Party's favorability was at all-time lows mean Americans "perceive correctly that both...
Florida first lady Casey DeSantis further stoked speculation that she may run for governor in 2026, telling an audience “we’ll see” when asked about launching a bid. The state’s first lady praised her husband, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), during a panel at the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit in National Harbor, Md., on Friday,...
The Trump administration is importing millions of eggs from Turkey and South Korea, with other countries likely to be contributing in the coming weeks, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Friday. "Right now, we've got Turkey and South Korea importing eggs. Just yesterday, I talked to a couple of other countries that will soon begin importing....
The perp walk of Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year, may have backfired on authorities, according to the organizer of an online campaign that has raised more than $700,000 for Mangione. Sam Beard, the spokesperson for the December 4th Legal Committee responsible for the fundraiser,...
Parents have been demanding more control over their children's education, leading to a surge in school choice programs, homeschooling, and curriculum transparency laws, while the federal government has been prioritizing political agendas over student success.
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) called for an investigation Friday into whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s recent comments encouraging Americans to buy Tesla stock violated federal ethics laws. In a letter to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics and ethics officials at the Commerce Department, the watchdog group called Lutnick’s remarks an “apparently flagrant violation”...
Instead of undermining the separation of powers, Republicans should capitalize on bipartisan disdain for how temporary restraining orders and nationwide injunctions are granted and reform the process legally.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion “investment framework” in the U.S., the White House announced on Friday. The new framework “will substantially increase the UAE’s existing investments in the U.S. economy in AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy, and American manufacturing,” according to the administration. The UAE committed to the investments...
The Pentagon will award its next-generation fighter jet contract to Boeing, a deal initially worth more than $20 billion, President Trump announced Friday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, or F-47 fighter jet, will replace Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor with an aircraft meant to fight alongside drones, Trump announced...
