Fifteen years ago, I helped make the case for what became California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission. It was a first-of-its-kind body of 14 ordinary Californians, neither politicians nor their appointees....
Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned her House seat before she could face an expulsion vote for misappropriating pandemic relief funding, but that doesn't mean her political career is over.
A California winery co-owned by Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband was formally terminated last month, weeks after House Republicans opened an inquiry into a dramatic swing in the Minnesota Democrat's reported household wealth.
President Trump called off a second round of peace talks with Iran on Saturday, the day U.S. officials were set to travel to Islamabad for negotiations. Iranian officials met with Pakistani mediators on Saturday morning for “a very fruitful visit,” according to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. The foreign minister said his government has “yet...
The Trump administration is proposing to narrow the scope of safety reviews of chemicals that are already out on the market, it said Monday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in a proposed rule that when it assesses the safety of existing chemicals it would take a narrower approach. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin in a...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr accused Democrats of “distortion” regarding the agency’s role in Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from ABC. “The reality is, there’s a lot of Democrats out there that are engaged in a campaign of projection and distortion. And distortion is they’re completely misrepresenting the work of the FCC and what we’ve...
President Trump told pregnant people they should not take acetaminophen because of a potential link to autism. In an announcement from the White House on Monday afternoon, Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said labels for the over-the-counter pain medication will be updated to reflect that Tylenol “can be associated...
President Trump and top health officials Monday said pregnant women should not take acetaminophen for pain relief due to a potential link to autism. Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol, one of the most widely used medications in the world. “Taking Tylenol is not good,” Trump said during a White House announcement. Trump...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said his long-awaited decision on whether to endorse New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is "coming sooner rather than later.” “I expect to have more to say about the mayor's race shortly. The governor has endorsed, the speaker of the assembly made an endorsement, and over the...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday it would not follow California’s new law banning its agents from covering their faces during enforcement operations. “To be clear: We will NOT comply with [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban,” DHS said Monday in a post on the social platform X. DHS suggested the masks...
President Trump will meet this week with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to discuss government funding ahead of a potential shutdown, a White House official told The Hill. Punchbowl first reported on the upcoming meeting. The president is set to travel to New York for the United Nations...
A man has been charged with pointing a laser beam at Marine One while President Trump was on board on Saturday, according to a signed affidavit. The affidavit, signed by Secret Service Officer Diego Santiago, alleges that Jacob Samuel Winkler pointed a red laser beam at Santiago, before pointing it in the direction of Marine...
Morgan Murphy, a former top Trump administration official who also served as a top aide to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), is launching a bid for his former boss’s seat next year for Alabama Senate. Tuberville is leaving the Senate to run for governor, creating a vacancy in the deep-red states. Murphy touts himself as a...
Satisfaction with the direction of the country reached its lowest point of President Trump’s second term in office, according to the latest Gallup poll, though views remain broadly more positive than before he took office. Twenty-nine percent of survey respondents say they’re satisfied “with the way things are going in the United States at this...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling on the Trump administration to reopen a Justice Department investigation into Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, following reports that he had accepted thousands of dollars from undercover FBI agents last year. Responding to Trump’s recent call for the Justice Department to escalate investigations of his political opponents, including Sen. Adam Schiff...
Google made the case Monday to a Virginia judge that it should be permitted to hold on to several key portions of its advertising technology ecosystem, just weeks after avoiding a breakup of its online search business. The tech giant is in court yet again, as the Department of Justice (DOJ) argues the company should...
The White House on Monday defended border czar Tom Homan after MSNBC reported he was investigated by the Biden administration for bribery, stressing that President Trump stands by him. “Mr. Homan never took the $50,000 that you're referring to, so you should get your facts straight. Number one,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told...
