Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., guaranteed that the SAVE America Act would get a vote, but the current funding fight in the Senate could derail a swift vote.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized leakers in response to a Wall Street Journal story that said he personally sought to talk President Trump out of trying to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The president slammed the report on Sunday. Bessent was asked on CNBC on Monday if the Journal story was real and if...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Todd Lyons said agents can continue to use masks in the field, even as the agency has increasingly come under fire for moves that limit identification of its personnel. In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Lyons defended the practice despite some misgivings, citing rising threats against ICE...
President Trump’s special envoy for Syria on Monday criticized Israeli strikes against the country last week as poorly timed and complicating efforts to stabilize the region, in an interview with The Associated Press. Tom Barrack, U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, is engaged in ceasefire efforts to halt sectarian violence in Syria...
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated federal law by taking down a public website that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies, ordering its reinstatement. U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan ruled Monday that removal of the online database overseen by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) violated legislation passed by Congress,...
Fox News host Mark Levin said late Sunday that Republicans should not “waste our time” focusing on Jeffrey Epstein ahead of the midterms. In an interview with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on “Life, Liberty & Levin,” the conservative host urged Johnson to focus the GOP message on the achievements of the Trump administration with Republican...
Harvard and the Trump administration are going head-to-head in court on Monday over the federal government's pause of billions of dollars in funding to the university. Federal Judge Allison Burroughs is presiding over the case, where both sides are seeking a summary judgement to end the battle without going to trial. Harvard argues...
Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) says he couldn’t “stomach” what he calls “the socialist trend that’s going on” in the Democratic Party, explaining why he left the party last year to become an independent shortly before retiring from the Senate. Manchin made his comments during a Fox News interview when asked to comment on the...
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who once represented disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, says his former client’s longtime co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, “knows everything” about the Epstein case and should be offered immunity to testify before Congress. The comments come as the Trump administration, which had pledged full disclosure and transparency on the Epstein files, is...
Alaska Airlines resumed its operations early Monday after grounding all flights for approximately three hours because of a technical outage. The “temporary, system-wide ground stop” began at approximately 8 p.m. PDT and applied to all Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air flights. By 11 p.m. PDT, the ground stop had been lifted, Alaska Airlines said in...
No nation is healthy when floods are sweeping children away, fires are burning families alive in their homes, and tornadoes are leveling entire towns as its people do nothing of consequence to keep those tragedies from becoming normal.
Authorities searched Sunday for a second suspect in the shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer in an apparent botched robbery on Saturday. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the 42-year-old officer was injured after he was approached by two men on a moped while sitting with a woman in...
Much has been written about America’s largest city edging closer to electing a socialist mayor. Zohran Mamdani recently won the Democratic primary, which is likely enough to secure the mayoralty of New York City. He still has to get through a general election that includes incumbent Eric Adams, now running as an independent. But Mamdani...
