Tejano music star Bobby Pulido is a favorite of national Democrats this cycle, as he mounts an uphill battle to flip a deep-red Rio Grande Valley House seat that...
House Oversight Committee staff will travel to Ohio to depose billionaire Les Wexner, who was named as a Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator in a 2019 FBI document.
The Trump administration released a trove of previously classified documents related to Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, which revealed details about the FBI's investigation into the slain Civil Rights icon before his death.
The Kennedy Center's famed opera house could be renamed to honor Melania Trump, if House Republicans have their way. House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to the interior, environment and related agencies annual spending bill that would rename the opera house in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts the...
President Trump meets Tuesday with the leader of America's oldest ally in the Pacific, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., at the White House. Marcos, the first leader of South Asian nations to visit the Trump White House, is looking to talk trade, after Trump put a 20 percent levy on the nation starting Aug. 1....
A House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, as the Republicans on Capitol Hill push for the publication of more information related to Epstein’s case. During an unrelated subcommittee hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) moved to direct the panel to authorize...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) are scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss and coordinate Democratic strategy ahead of September’s partisan battle to fund the government and avoid shutting down federal agencies, according to a senior Democratic aide. Government funding will expire on Sept. 30 and Senate Democrats...
Brendan Carr, President Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair, mocked critics of Paramount and CBS over the network's decision to cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." "The partisan left’s ritualist wailing and gnashing of teeth over Colbert is quite revealing," Carr, who posts frequently on social media wrote on the social platform X on...
Public confidence in the future of Social Security has dipped in the last five years, with younger Americans found to be more pessimistic about it, according to a new AARP survey. The survey found that of the 3,599 respondents polled, 36 percent were very or somewhat confident in the future of Social Security – a...
While the Trump administration is busy slapping taxes on aluminum and auto parts, President Xi Jinping could be preparing to export cheap, clean and practically limitless energy.
President Trump on Tuesday is holding a bilateral meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the White House. Earlier this month, the Philippine ambassador to the U.S. said the talks would focus on how the nations can deepen their security and economic ties, including threats from China and potential trade negotiations. The meeting also...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, who is considering a 2028 presidential run, brushed off criticism from former President Biden’s son, Hunter, who accused Emanuel of walking away from the party’s values. Emanuel responded on Monday to a clip of the younger Biden’s remarks during an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show," saying...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is facing pressure from all sides as the Fed’s banking regulation conference kicks off this week. President Trump has been threatening to fire Powell while telling him to cut interest rates, but the Fed has been holding off as Trump’s tariffs have started to push up prices. Potential successors to...
