Indiana state House Republicans have released a draft congressional map that would give the GOP an edge in all nine of the state’s congressional districts — potentially netting the...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision on Alina Habba, a fiery Trump loyalist appointed to serve as the acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President Kennedy, is running to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in the Empire State’s 12th congressional district. In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Schlossberg said the country “is at a turning point” and in the midst of a cost of living, corruption and constitutional crisis under...
The House on Wednesday is returning to Washington after nearly two months out of session for a vote that could reopen the federal government and end the record-long shutdown. Most Democrats are firmly against the funding package, while Republicans are largely supportive. The bill appears poised to cross the finish line. Here are the key...
The broad language in President Trump’s pardons for dozens of allies who helped challenge his 2020 presidential election loss could hand unexpected beneficiaries a blank check. The president granted unconditional pardons to more than 70 lawyers, aides and so-called “fake electors” for efforts to provide an alternate slate of Electoral College votes in his...
What the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attempted to do with a sledgehammer, Congress succeeded in doing with gridlock and an unwillingness to compromise.
We also found that states that legalized recreational marijuana earliest (for example, in the early 2000s) experience larger decreases in opioid deaths.
The House is set to vote on a bill to end the government shutdown, while Democrats are in a stronger position to respond to Republican redistricting efforts.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Tuesday that “no one really knows” who’s heading up his party in both chambers of Congress as tensions flare among Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown. “Who is running the show now in the Democratic Party, in the Senate, in the House?” Fox News’s Lawrence Jones asked Fetterman on “Fox...
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee slammed a Senate-approved plan to reopen the government that would also pave the way for eight GOP senators to earn significant sums from litigation challenging the search of their phone records related to Jan. 6. Tucked into the GOP proposal, which eight Democratic senators also approved, the...
A proposal to reopen the U.S. government that passed the Senate on Monday contains language that would outlaw the sale of intoxicating hemp products across the nation.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday warned of “massively more disruption” in air travel if the ongoing government shutdown, which has lasted for more than a month, continues into the weekend. “You're going to see this Friday, Saturday and Sunday — big disruption thus far — massively more disruption as we come into the weekend,...
House Democratic leaders on Tuesday will propose a three-year extension of the soon-to-expire ObamaCare subsidies at the center of the shutdown fight. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the Democratic whip, will offer the legislation as an amendment to the Senate-passed spending agreement during a meeting of the Rules Committee...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) blasted the Trump administration’s reported plans to open up new drilling off California’s coasts as “dead on arrival.” “As it relates to offshore oil drilling, it's overwhelmingly opposed by members of all political parties in the state of California,” Newsom said during a press conference at the COP30 climate conference...
