A new report shows that federal spending has ballooned for more than a century, raising questions about whether Americans are getting meaningful value for the ever-expanding price tag.
Democrat Eileen Higgins broke a nearly 30-year losing streak to win Miami mayor race, defeating Republican Emilio González in a closely watched runoff election.
Federal appeals court allows Pentagon to enforce President Donald Trump's transgender military ban while legal challenge continues in "a great win" for the administration.
An ongoing decline in American assimilation and a deep fear of being accused of racism were key factors in the massive fraud scheme, according to an expert.
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday voted to advance President Trump’s new pick to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a low-profile agency that is poised to take on a key role regulating cryptocurrency. The panel voted 12-11 along partisan lines to send Mike Selig’s nomination to the Senate floor, just one day after...
Comedian Jon Stewart went after President Trump and tech leaders over a visit this week with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “Jon, what do you think about all of the CEOs attending the White House dinner for MBS [Mohammed bin Salman]?” Brittany Mehmedovic, Stewart’s producer, asked on his “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart”...
Democratic senators clashed with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on the Senate floor Thursday when the GOP leader proposed a resolution to clarify that any damages won by Republican senators from lawsuits against the Department of Justice (DOJ) would go to the U.S. Treasury and not to the senators’ bank accounts. Responding to complaints...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’s (CAIR) legal arm has filed a lawsuit challenging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) designation of their group as a “foreign terrorist organization” — a stance at odds with the U.S. government. CAIR is the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights advocacy organization, according to a description on its website. The organization’s...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday the United States has assured his country's "qualitative advantage" in the Middle East despite President Trump's plan to sell F-35 advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. The sale concerned Israeli and some U.S. officials about whether it could destabilize Israel's so-called qualitative military edge (QME), which Congress has...
The Energy Department announced a reorganization on Thursday that it says will better reflect the Trump administration’s priorities. An organizational chart released to the public no longer lists the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. According to the department, this office will be renamed as the newly established Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation. That...
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D) will resign from her seat in the House on Thursday, with current Gov. Phil Murphy (D) expected to call for a special election to replace her on Friday. In a letter addressed to Murphy on Tuesday and posted on the social platform X, Sherrill told the New Jersey governor she...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt swiped at New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ahead of his visit to the nation's capital on Friday, echoing President Trump in calling him “a communist.” “It speaks volumes that tomorrow we have a communist coming to the White House because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the...
A Texas Democrat is vowing to introduce new articles of impeachment against President Trump before year’s end. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) declined to say how many articles he will craft or what actions of the president he will target. But he’s promising to force a vote on his resolutions before Congress leaves Washington for the...
The Trump administration proposed on Thursday to open up new oil and gas drilling off the coast of California, a move that had already been denounced by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). The administration also proposed opening to drilling an area in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, a plan that could rankle Florida Republicans. It proposes to hold...
House Democratic leaders hammered President Trump on Thursday after the president suggested a group of Democratic lawmakers should be executed for “seditious behavior.” Behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the Democratic leaders warned that Trump’s remarks, which targeted six Democrats with military or national security backgrounds, have put the lawmakers at risk of becoming...
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) on Thursday blasted a grand jury indictment Thursday accusing her of stealing $5 million in disaster relief funding and using some of it for her congressional campaign. “This is an unjust, baseless, sham indictment — and I am innocent. The timing alone is curious and clearly meant to distract from far...
