President Trump announced the Trump Gold Card immigration initiative is now live, promising a streamlined citizenship path for qualified and vetted applicants.
U.S. forces seized a Venezuelan oil tanker, President Donald Trump announced, signaling a major escalation with Caracas as officials await details on the operation and its implications.
President Donald Trump's administration signed a deal for a fleet of Boeing planes through DHS to enhance deportation operations and reduce costs by $279 million for taxpayers.
The FCC and several states are creating a formal partnership to share information and work together to protect U.S. consumers from risky communications technology tied to China.
Unfortunately, “6-7” has reached the House floor. Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah) thought it was a good idea Tuesday to use the slang term, which has been increasingly used by teenagers to describe, well, anything. Moore, serving as speaker pro tempore, asked for those in the chamber to vote yea or nay on a measure. Then,...
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...
