Schumer warns Trump's Venezuela actions push U.S. toward war without congressional approval, citing constitutional concerns over military force and oversight.
Most Americans don’t see the value in a four-year degree in higher education, according to a new poll. An NBC News survey found 63 percent of people saying a bachelor’s degree is “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off,” while...
Since Governor Greg Abbott launched his campaign for re-election, he's been highlighting policies that could have wide-ranging effects on Texans. He's highlighted a new plan to provide property tax relief, and his words are a key part of the court battle over the state's congressional maps.
The leaders of the House Armed Services Committee said late Saturday they are seeking “full accounting” of an early September U.S. military attack against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean after a report alleged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. troops to “kill everybody” aboard the vessel. “This committee is committed to providing...
A Russian drone strike killed at least three people in Ukraine’s capital early Saturday morning while wounding at least 29 others, according to The Associated Press. Two individuals were killed in Kyiv, while the other death occurred in the broader region, the Kyiv City Military Administration announced. The Kremlin strikes consisted of both missiles and...
The Trump administration has ordered states to “undo” Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments. "States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025," a Saturday memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. The department also said in the memo that "failure to comply" could "result in USDA...
Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted in connection with a sports betting and money laundering scheme. The indictment, unsealed in the Eastern District of New York on Sunday, alleges that Clase and Ruiz provided bettors with inside information on their pitches. The co-conspirators then placed wagers on those pitches, with...
As many as 10 Democratic senators are expected to vote for a bill to reopen the government as soon as Sunday evening or early Monday morning, as a group of moderate Democrats, and even some liberals, are ready to end the 40-day shutdown. Centrist Democrats and Republican members of the Senate Appropriations Committee were close...
The U.S. has the technology and legal framework to locate and reunite thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and a bipartisan bill has been passed in the Senate to authorize the use of biometric infrastructure to do so, now awaiting approval in the House of Representatives.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Sunday said that if Democrats vote to advance a House-passed continuing resolution, he will offer as a substitute another stopgap spending measure with a later expiration date combined with three full-year appropriations bills, known as a minibus. Thune told reporters that the Senate will vote Sunday afternoon on...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that "15 to 20" air traffic controllers are retiring daily amid the government shutdown. "I used to have about four controllers retire a day before the shutdown. I'm now up to 15 to 20 a day are retiring," Duffy told CNN's Jake Tapper on State of the Union. "So,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said over the weekend that the nationwide redistricting fight was the start of a “resurgence of energy” among Democrats. “Just the energy that the delegation from Texas brought to the Democratic Party, to democracy as a whole, when they stood up and pushed back against Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s...
The Trump administration is taking a well-earned victory lap after successfully delaying a carbon tax on the shipping and logistics industry at a United Nations meeting in London last month. “The U.S. achieved a diplomatic victory and successfully rallied a coalition to stop the body’s proposed ‘net-zero framework,’” wrote Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the effort to delay by one year a proposal to implement...
Senators will again gather at the Capitol on Sunday in an attempt to negotiate an end to the now 40-day government shutdown, after a rare Saturday session yielded little progress despite mounting pressures. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters entering the weekend that lawmakers will remain in session until a deal is reached...
Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew (N.J.) said his party will “get killed” in the 2026 midterms if it does not address rising health care costs. “We need to deal with [health care] now because, number one, it’s the right thing to do, just morally,” Van Drew told Maria Bartiromo Friday on Fox Business’s “Wall Street.”...
