Gov. Greg Abbott says Houston is in breach of contract and must repay Texas $110 million or repeal its sanctuary-type ordinance limiting ICE cooperation.
Rep. Haley Stevens was booed by pro-Palestinian activists during a speech at Michigan Democrats' spring convention amid a heated Senate primary battle.
The Justice Department (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) Tuesday, alleging it is intentionally delaying residents’ concealed carry applications. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, lists the LACSD and Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna, a Democrat, as defendants. It alleges that...
71 out of 1,874 passengers and one out of 883 crew members have "reported being ill during the voyage." The predominant symptoms include diarrhea and vomiting.
Pope Leo XIV criticized supporters of the death penalty on Tuesday, saying they are “not really pro-life.” “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but says ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not really pro-life,” the pope told reporters, via EWTN News. “Someone who says that, ‘I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the...
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over President Trump posting a deepfake video of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). The fake video, altered with artificial intelligence, depicts Jeffries donning a sombrero and handlebar mustache and Schumer saying Democrats “have no voters left because...
National Parks will largely remain open even as the federal government shuts down, according to a plan made public on Tuesday evening. “Park roads, lookouts, trails, and open-air memorials will generally remain accessible to visitors,” says a shutdown contingency plan for the National Park Service (NPS). At the same time, the park service plans to furlough...
President Trump on Tuesday withdrew the nomination of E.J. Antoni to serve as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after ousting the previous head of the agency over criticism of jobs data. Trump had announced in August that he would nominate Antoni, a top economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead...
Three members of the Senate Democratic caucus broke with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday and voted for a House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through Nov. 21, revealing divisions among Democrats about how aggressively to confront the Trump administration. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team,...
Russell Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued a memo on Tuesday evening directing government agencies to begin executing their plans "for an orderly shutdown." Vought wrote to agency leaders with just hours to go until government funding lapses at midnight. The OMB director blamed the impending shutdown on "Democrats'...
The Trump administration has withdrawn its nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a White House official confirmed Tuesday evening. Brian Quintenz, global head of policy at a16z crypto and a former CFTC commissioner, was tapped by President Trump in February to lead the agency, as it prepares to take on a larger...
Republican lawmakers would get a larger share of blame for a government shutdown than their Democratic counterparts if lawmakers don't come to an agreement, a poll released Tuesday found. The NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, conducted last week, found that 38 percent of respondents would blame Republicans, while 27 percent would blame Democrats and 31 percent would...
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at using artificial intelligence to improve research and treatments for childhood cancer. The order builds on a 2019 database established by Trump that collects data on childhood cancer. That order directs agencies to use artificial intelligence to analyze information in that database to accelerate research and...
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to launch TrumpRx.com, an online platform that it says will direct Americans to lower-priced drugs. The announcement came one day after President Trump's deadline for drugmakers to comply with his "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) executive order, which included a mandate for companies to establish direct-to-consumer for medicines, cutting...
Voices on the left and the right are questioning the strength of former FBI Director James Comey's federal indictment, arguing prosecutors will be challenged in winning a conviction. Comey was indicted Thursday on two counts, with a grand jury taking the unusual step of rejecting one of the proposed charges before approving the two-page indictment. The slim court filing...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday said the farming economy is "not in a good place" as those in the agriculture industry lose sales from trade severances with China and other partner nations. “Right now, the farm economy is not in a good place. We're working around the clock,” Rollins said during a Tuesday appearance...
