Paul Ingrassia, President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, withdrew his nomination late Tuesday after reports that he sent racist texts demeaning the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and declaring he had "a Nazi streak."
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes followed through Tuesday on her threat to sue House Speaker Mike Johnson for not swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.
Venezuelans who were forcibly deported to a terrorist prison in El Salvador earlier this year have now formally accused ICE officers of beating them to make them get off the airplane.
President Trump on Tuesday rejected Democratic leaders' request to meet with him to negotiate on health care, saying their party must first reopen the government.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the federal government owes him "a lot of money" for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insisted he would have the ultimate say on any payout because any decision will "have to go across my desk."
Two years since Hamas’s deadly terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Trump’s push for peace in the Gaza Strip appears within reach. Israeli and Hamas officials started indirect negotiations in earnest on Monday in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The president is exercising enormous...
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said the “more rational” influence of President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, during the president's first term kept him in line. “I think the spirit animal for Trump two from the family is Don Jr.,” Scaramucci told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on a Monday episode of her “The Best People”...
New York is expanding financial aid and waiving college application fees for almost 130 institutions statewide in an effort to lower financial barriers for high schoolers heading to college.
Retired Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath (D) announced on Monday that she would be launching a second bid for retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) Senate seat in Kentucky next year, after losing to the former Senate leader in 2020 by close to 20 points. “You might know me. I'm Amy McGrath. When I joined the...
We must decide whether we will continue to uphold our democracy and the rule of law that undergirds it, or whether, as Lincoln stated, we choose to “die by suicide.”
More than half of voters say they support President Trump’s 21-point plan to end the war in Gaza, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Monday. The poll found 56 percent of respondents supported Trump’s peace plan, while 44 percent opposed it. Opinion over Trump’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war is split, with 51 percent...
More than two-thirds of Americans oppose the government shutdown as it stretches into its sixth day, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released on Monday. The poll found 70 percent of respondents opposed the shutdown while 30 percent said they supported it. More respondents, 53 percent, blamed Republicans for the shutdown over those who...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday went after President Trump over the government shutdown, saying that the U.S. requires “a president who can act like an adult.” “How confident are you that Democrats will stay united in this fight?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Schiff on “Meet the Press” about the shutdown. “I'm confident all...
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) hauled in over $14.5 million this past quarter as he vies for Sen. Thom Tillis’s (R-N.C.) Senate seat next year, his campaign announced on Monday. Cooper’s campaign noted that over $10.8 million was raised through his campaign while his joint fundraising committee Cooper Victory Fund raked in a...
