President Donald Trump's special envoy to Belarus recently revealed that he helped ingratiate himself with the country's autocratic leader by echoing Alexander Lukashenko's disdain for Europe with vulgar language and by negotiating his way through a boozy lunch during their first meeting.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) is banning his staff from trading on prediction markets, which have recently come under congressional scrutiny. “Effective today, Congressman Moulton is instituting an office-wide policy prohibiting his congressional staff from participating in prediction market platforms, such as Polymarket and Kalshi,” Moulton’s press office said in a post on the social platform...
President Trump said Wednesday at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) annual fundraising dinner that he avoids using the word “war” to describe the conflict in Iran. “I won’t use the word 'war' because they say if you use the word 'war,' that’s maybe not a good thing to do,” Trump told the crowd of...
Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story States roll back HIV drug access as federal funds stagnate With more than a decade of unchanged federal aid for HIV medication, states are beginning to make hard decisions on how they administer their programs helping HIV-positive individuals access the medications they need. ...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) took to the House floor on Tuesday with a motion to force a vote on her resolution directing the House Ethics Committee to preserve and publicly release all reports on investigations into members of Congress regarding allegations of sexual harassment of staff or of a sexual relationship with a member of...
A U.S. judge in New York on Tuesday granted preliminary approval to an agreement that requires Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to pay up to $35 million to settle a lawsuit that accused two of Epstein's advisers of intentionally assisting and facilitating his sex trafficking of women and underage girls. U.S district judge Arun Subramanian signed the...
Texas state Rep. James Talarico and Rep. Jasmine Crockett are facing off Tuesday in the Democratic primary for incumbent Sen. John Cornyn's (R) seat. One candidate must secure more than 50 percent of Tuesday's vote to avoid a runoff in May. Follow Decision Desk HQ’s live results here.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R) is fighting to hang on to his seat in a contested GOP primary for Texas's 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday. Steve Toth, a state representative, who is backed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), as well as Martin Etwop and Nicholas Plumb are vying for the GOP nod. Other incumbents seeking...
Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales is facing a tougher than expected primary bid in the solidly red 23rd Congressional District of Texas, after explosive allegations over an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide came to light. The southwestern Texas-area congressman has faced mounting calls to resign, even from his fellow House Republicans. Meanwhile,...
Tuesday's Democratic primary race for North Carolina's 4th Congressional District is a repeat of the 2022 contest between Rep. Valerie Foushee and Nida Allam, a Durham County commissioner backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Although the seat will almost surely stay in Democrats' hands in November, Tuesday's primary will offer insights into the party's momentum...
A handful of primary contests for all four House seats are underway in Arkansas on Tuesday. Incumbent Republican Reps. Rick Crawford of the 1st Congressional District, Steve Womack of the 3rd Congressional District and Bruce Westerman of the 4th Congressional District are not facing any challengers and have advanced to the November general election. Rep....
Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) criticized the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy (NDS) blueprint Tuesday, saying it ignores the implications of the Russia-Ukraine war and does not say much about Washington’s interests in the Middle East given the Iran war. Wicker in opening remarks at a hearing with Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby listed...
If the mission is defense, say that. If it’s deterrence, define it. If it’s regime change, own it. But shifting goals in real time, while lives and markets hang in the balance, is not strategy, it’s uncertainty. And uncertainty is a dangerous place to wage war.
The rate of colorectal cancer is increasing among younger Americans and is now the leading cause of cancer deaths in adults under the age of 50, according to research published by the American Cancer Society on Monday. Researchers found that 45 percent of new colorectal cancer diagnoses are occurring in individuals younger than 65, a...
The House Oversight Committee released more than eight hours of testimony yesterday that depicts Bill and Hillary Clinton testifying as to their relationship, or lack there of, with Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) went after Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) over comments he made about the U.S. operation against Iran, asking the senator “what the actual f---" he was "talking about." During a Monday appearance on Fox News's "America Reports," Mullin said, “The loss of life, when the president first came out and he talked...
