President Donald Trump called for eliminating the blue slip tradition, but Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., warned that "nuking the blue slip would be a huge mistake."
A federal judge gave the government until Tuesday to release a redacted search warrant affidavit from a January FBI raid that seized 2020 election materials.
Democratic strategist James Carville criticized Democrats for failing to adequately target Vice President Vance in their political messaging. “Use JD Vance,” Carville said in Thursday’s episode of his "Politics War Room" podcast, “and just kick the s--- out of him every chance you get.” Carville pointed to Vance’s recent trip to England as a missed...
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Wednesday said private prison employees would have to answer to their treatment of inmates amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and as more detention facilities may pop up around the U.S. “There, at some point, is going to be a reckoning for all of this,” Ossoff told MSNBC...
Most Americans said partisan redistricting in the House threatens democracy, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Fifty-five percent of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said there is a negative effect on democracy from changing House district maps to secure seats, with 46 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of Democrats saying the same. California and...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday announced it had terminated California’s participation in a federal sex education grant program after the state refused to remove information about transgender people from its curricula. The department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) asked California in March to submit all learning materials for its Personal...
Kim Davis has asked the Supreme Court to erase Obergefell v. Hodges, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, but the odds of the court revisiting the issue are slim and the case is more about religious liberty than same-sex marriage.
Tens of millions of dollars in funding for health programs run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that had been blocked by the Trump administration is being released to grantees. According to several CDC employees, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the agency’s spending plans for specific grants,...
The number of unauthorized immigrants in the US reached an all-time high of 14 million in 2023, driven by policy shifts from the Biden administration and the COVID-19 pandemic, before Trump reversed some of those policies upon his return to office in January 2024.
U.S. Marshals Service Director Gady Serralta on Wednesday said President Trump’s D.C. takeover is reducing rampant crime that residents have been forced to experience for more than four decades. “These are folks that have been living this for 40 years, 40 years of having to live in fear,” Serralta said during a Wednesday evening appearance...
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday recounted the Alaska summit last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling President Trump the “Michael Jordan” of dealmaking. In a radio interview on the “Cats & Cosby Show,” Witkoff described to hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby what he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio witnessed behind...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took another swing at Texas Republicans amid the mid-decade redistricting battle, accusing them of "cowering" to President Trump. “Look at these Republicans, cowering to this guy,” Newsom said on Tuesday's episode of “The Siren Podcast," referring to Trump. “Look at your Republican governor, used to claim to be a conservative....
