Schumer warns Trump's Venezuela actions push U.S. toward war without congressional approval, citing constitutional concerns over military force and oversight.
Most Americans don’t see the value in a four-year degree in higher education, according to a new poll. An NBC News survey found 63 percent of people saying a bachelor’s degree is “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off,” while...
Since Governor Greg Abbott launched his campaign for re-election, he's been highlighting policies that could have wide-ranging effects on Texans. He's highlighted a new plan to provide property tax relief, and his words are a key part of the court battle over the state's congressional maps.
The leaders of the House Armed Services Committee said late Saturday they are seeking “full accounting” of an early September U.S. military attack against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean after a report alleged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. troops to “kill everybody” aboard the vessel. “This committee is committed to providing...
A Russian drone strike killed at least three people in Ukraine’s capital early Saturday morning while wounding at least 29 others, according to The Associated Press. Two individuals were killed in Kyiv, while the other death occurred in the broader region, the Kyiv City Military Administration announced. The Kremlin strikes consisted of both missiles and...
President Trump and other administration officials reached out to key Republicans who have signed on to an effort to force a vote on releasing files about Jeffrey Epstein in the hours before the push was set to succeed on Wednesday. CNN reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel...
President Trump warned Republicans Wednesday against engaging with the latest round of documents released from the Jeffrey Epstein case, which included emails in which the sex offender referenced Trump. "The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that President Trump “remains in exceptional health” following a question about an MRI he underwent last month. “As stated in the memo provided on Oct. 10, President Trump received advanced imaging at Walter Reed Medical Center as part of his routine physical examination,” Leavitt told reporters...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is making his presence known at the United Nations climate summit, slamming the Trump administration for “doubling down on stupid” by missing talks in Belém, Brazil. Newsom, a potential Democratic nominee for president in 2028, is among the top American politicians at COP30. He had terse words for his political...
Affordability, affordability, affordability — that is the word on everyone’s minds. Democrats performed well in last week’s elections by focusing on this very theme, which encompasses housing availability and inflation and education costs and child care and health care and so many other things. When they discuss “affordability” in vague terms, Democrats are even...
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have struck a deal in Busan to prioritize a frozen conflict in Ukraine, with the U.S. reducing military pressure in the Pacific and China leaning on Russia to accept a ceasefire, in exchange for a durable ceasefire along the current front line.
House Republicans and Democrats alike slammed a provision in the shutdown-ending funding measure that would give senators the opportunity to earn significant amounts of money from litigation challenging the seizure of their phone records as part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack probe. The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, allows...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) said he will call President Trump, who has gone after him intensely as his political star has risen, in the coming weeks. “Do you plan to call President Trump?” WNBC’s Melissa Russo asked Mamdani in an interview that aired Tuesday. “I will be reaching out to the White...
The White House defended President Trump’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein, accusing Democrats of “selectively” releasing emails from the deceased sex offender that reference the president. The comment comes after House Oversight Democrats released three email exchanges from Epstein as he corresponded with his associate Ghislaine Maxwell as well as columnist and author Michael Wolff. In the emails...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) dug in on her criticism of President Trump in a social media post on Wednesday, appearing to take aim at the president’s recent comments on H-1B visas and foreign policy. “I believe you are good, talented, creative, intelligent, hard working, and want to achieve,” Greene said in a post on...
MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Tuesday questioned "what happened" to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after a handful of Senators who caucus with Democrats bucked the party and voted to reopen the government. Seven Democrats and Independent Sen. Angus King (Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, voted with Republicans in the upper chamber Monday to...
Two men were among the thousands of U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War, yet their names were left off the war memorial. Their families are fighting to change that.
