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At Colorado Mountain College, access to good paying jobs isn’t a luxury — it’s essential.

Donald Trump's plan to restore Alcatraz as a maximum security federal prison is a costly and unnecessary idea that has been supported by his loyalists, Pam Bondi and Doug Burgum, despite the fact that the prison was shut down 62 years ago due to its dilapidated state and high costs.

A senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official has reached out to lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, about setting up a meeting with Maxwell amid a push from lawmakers for more transparency around Epstein's case. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement early Tuesday...

That means more GOP lawmakers will stop acting like Trump’s little lapdogs, kept on a tight leash, following his every command.

Comedian Jon Stewart tore into CBS on Monday for canceling "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert, which the network described as a "financial" decision. Stewart, during the latest episode of "The Daily Show," defended his friend and raised the possibility that the move could be an effort to appease President Trump, who has railed against...

Many reusable menstrual products that have gained increasing popularity among teens are packed with toxic “forever chemicals,” a new study has found. Among the biggest repeat offenders are washable pads and underwear, according to the study, published on Tuesday in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. And as more consumers opt for multi-use products over their disposable...

The Movement is a weekly newsletter tracking the influence and debates steering politics on the right. Sign up here or in the box below. Disputes on the right that had been simmering on the backburner as Republicans rallied around President Trump during his first six months in office are poised to roar to a boil in the second half...

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Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) is slated to be the next chair of the House Homeland Security Committee after winning the nod from a panel of leaders in the House GOP on Monday night. Garbarino beat out four other contenders for the chairmanship in a vote by the House Steering Committee -- a panel that includes...

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) has resigned from the House amid a tight margin between parties in the lower chamber. “It's with a heavy heart that I say farewell. To my constituents across Tennessee’s 7th District—thank you. The trust you put in me is humbling. I will look back fondly on my years of serving as...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons on Wednesday slammed Hunter Biden, the son of former President Biden, over recent comments he made about immigration. “That's just idiotic. It's dumb. You know, to make comments like that is crazy, because under the last administration, those are the problems we have right now. Under...

The Jeffrey Epstein saga is causing chaos in the House for the second week in a row, as threats of Democrats forcing politically tough votes are prompting House GOP leadership to toss out many of their plans for the week. The trouble started as soon as lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday, when the House...

Senate Republicans are weighing whether to heed President Trump's call to cancel some or all of the August recess to approve key nominees or to use the full month to go home and sell the party's tax and spending law to voters, which top Republicans view as crucial to their midterm election hopes. Having passed...

A federal judge Monday blocked the Trump administration from cutting funding to Planned Parenthood as part of the GOP’s new tax cut and health law. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston granted Planned Parenthood’s request for a temporary injunction while the lawsuit progresses. Planned Parenthood two weeks ago sued over a provision in the...