Most people in Los Angeles County can name the mayor of LA. Fewer can name their county supervisor — the office for which I’m running in 2026. People barely...
With Congress at a stalemate again, lawmakers left Washington for the Easter and Passover holidays and are not set to return until the week of April 13.
You don't have to go very deep into the U.S. Constitution to see the word "citizen" appear. It's first used in Article I, Section 2, where the founding document says to serve in the House of Representatives someone must have been a citizen for seven years.
Iran on Sunday said it would begin treating American college campuses in the Middle East as “legitimate targets” for its military after it said U.S.-Israeli strikes earlier this week hit Isfahan University of Technology and Tehran University of Science and Technology. “The reckless rulers of the White House should know that from now on, all...
Gas prices continued to skyrocket this week as the war in Iran created havoc in the oil sector, but a handful of U.S. cities saw larger-than-average price increases.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary on Friday announced that the agency's top regulator Vinay Prasad will depart next month. "A year ago, Dr. Prasad came to the FDA to implement 4 major long-lasting reforms: 2-to-1 pivotal trial requirement, national priority reviews, a risk-stratified covid vaccine framework, & the new plausible mechanism framework...
The U.S. military carried out a “successful” operation against a “narco-terrorist” supply complex in Ecuador as part of the Trump administration’s push to dismantle drug-trafficking networks in the Western Hemisphere, according to defense officials. At the request of Ecuador, a U.S. military joint force executed the targeted action against a suspected drug-smuggling facility inside Ecuador...
Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Emergency departments ordered less Tylenol after Trump's Oval Office remarks In the months following President Trump’s appeal to pregnant women to “fight like hell not to take” the common over-the-counter pain reliever acetaminophen, fewer orders for the medication were...
The IRS announced a series of proposed rules that would determine eligibility and timing for the $1,000 government seed payments, among other aspects of the Trump Accounts.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Friday said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was "dead as fried chicken" after he pressed her during a Senate hearing about a $220 million ad campaign not approved by President Trump, days before the president fired her. "I was stunned when Noem answered categorically that the president approved every single...
Former Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii), the first Asian American woman elected as president of a legislative body, died Friday following a private battle with cancer, according to multiple reports. Hanabusa, 74, was "a veteran lawmaker and attorney from Waianae who fought for local people for three decades as a Congresswoman and state Senate President," her...
The U.S. is lifting some restrictions on Russian oil and considering more actions to “unsanction” it as the conflict in Iran raises prices globally, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday. Bessent told Fox Business that the U.S. would allow India to buy Russian barrels. "Yesterday, Treasury agreed to let our allies in India start buying...
The U.S. Postal Service will run out of money within a year, Postmaster General David Steiner told The Associated Press this week. “We have to have a conversation with the American public,” Steiner said in an interview with the AP published Thursday. “If you want us to deliver everywhere, every day, we’ll do it. That’s...
A Wisconsin man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to killing his parents in order to fund a plot to assassinate President Trump involving a drone with explosives or an AR-15 assault rifle. Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court...
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) on Friday pointed to the firing of Kristi Noem as proof that the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was “working,” insisting it would not persuade Democrats to drop their demands for Republicans to rein in immigration enforcement operations. Kamlager-Dove told anchor Audie Cornish on “CNN This Morning” that...
