During her 2022 campaign against GOP opponent Lee Zeldin, Hochul, in what had started as a routine public appearance, suddenly demanded that Republicans “just jump on a bus and...
A group of preschoolers in the Bronx received a visit from former President Obama and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Saturday, the first meeting between the two men coming just over a week after Mamdani marked his 100th day in office. The pair read to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center...
Vice President JD Vance thanked Pope Leo XIV on Saturday after the pontiff sought to downplay a days-long clash with President Trump and said he didn't want to engage in a public debate with the president. The pope said earlier on Saturday that some of the coverage of his comments throughout his papal visit to...
President Trump is calling for Univision to return to YouTube TV, saying its recent removal is “VERY BAD” for the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms. “I hope Univision, a great and very popular Hispanic Network, can get BACK onto the very amazing Google/YouTube,” the president said late Saturday on his Truth Social platform. “It...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) has slammed his colleagues in Congress who engage in insider trading, saying they should be "on Wall Street" instead of on Capitol Hill. "Americans understand what's going on with Congress," Burchett said Sunday on the "Cats Roundtable" radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM. "When they see their...
Disagreements among Democrats have emerged over how to conduct political messaging on the government shutdown as the party battles with the GOP over whom the public should blame for the impasse. The Democratic National Committee raised eyebrows Wednesday when it posted a shutdown explainer video featuring cats, attracting criticism from some observers who called it...
President Trump’s top officials are raising alarm that violence on the ground in eastern Congo is outpacing U.S. efforts to implement a peace deal to end 30 years of conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The warnings from Trump’s top officials counter the president’s repeated claims that he has ended “un-endable wars.”...
Republicans in Congress have refused to negotiate an extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits as part of talks to end the shutdown, arguing there is plenty of time to negotiate over ObamaCare once the government is funded. “That is an issue for the end of the year. Dec. 31 is when that expires,”...
Some U.S. schools are facing an immediate funding threat due to the government shutdown, while others are nervously eyeing their cash reserves and wondering how long the closure will last. Schools at military facilities or on Tribal land can receive a significant portion of their budget from Impact Aid, which was immediately cut off when...
Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Bad Bunny on Saturday night poked fun at the backlash he has received from conservatives since being announced as this NFL season's Super Bowl halftime show performer. The award-winning artist, hosting NBC's "Saturday Night Live" for the second time, said during his opening monologue that he is "very happy" to be Super...
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller railed against a Saturday ruling that temporarily blocked President Trump’s attempts to deploy 200 National Guard soldiers to Portland, Ore. “Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge … ,” Miller, an architect of many Trump administration immigration policies, wrote...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Democrats will caucus virtually on Monday after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent his colleagues home for the next week amid the government shutdown. “People will die. If the Affordable Care Act tax credits are not renewed in short order, millions will lose their healthcare coverage, and the...
A new poll shows most Americans say they believe the government shutdown will last for two weeks or less, as Congress grapples with the public fallout from the first shutdown in about six years. The YouGov survey, published on Friday, found that 41 percent of Americans think the federal closure will last for two weeks...
A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked President Trump’s deployment of 200 National Guard members to Portland, Ore. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut granted Oregon and Portland officials’ request for a temporary restraining order, barring implementation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s memo that authorized federalizing the troops over the state’s objection. “This is a nation...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Saturday said the Trump administration will federalize the state’s National Guard to aid in law enforcement efforts in Chicago and elsewhere in The Prairie State. “This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and...
The government shutdown has now lasted for about four days in a faceoff between Republicans standing strong on their non-negotiables and Democrats holding firm to their demands to prioritize funding for health care. House GOP lawmakers returned to their districts on Friday for designated “work periods” at the direction of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who...
