Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is using his book tour and 2026 reelection campaign to further build out a national fundraising network that could prove quite useful in a potential...
The parents of the man killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis last month are speaking out. In their first sit-down interview with The New York Times, Michael and Susan Pretti reflected on the life and legacy of their son, Alex Pretti. The 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed after he tried to assist a woman...
Attorney General Pam Bondi rebuffed a request from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) to turn around and address victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who were in the audience of a House Judiciary Committee hearing, resulting in a shouting match during which the attorney general accused the lawmaker of “theatrics.” Jayapal used her questioning to criticize the Justice Department for...
Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) will give remarks Wednesday afternoon after a grand jury failed to indict the duo and four other lawmakers in connection to a video released last year urging service members and intelligence officials to defy illegal orders. The controversial video, which was lambasted by the Trump administration as...
J.P. Cooney, a former top deputy to ex-special counsel Jack Smith, launched a campaign on Wednesday as a Democrat for Congress in Virginia. “I’m running for Congress because never before in the history of our country has a president of the United States posed a graver threat to our Democracy, our rule of law, and...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday celebrated after a grand jury failed to indict six Democratic lawmakers in connection to a controversial video urging service members and intelligence officials to defy illegal orders. "Yesterday, a Grand Jury of everyday Americans rejected a baseless attempt to indict six Members of Congress and the United...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Tuesday ripped Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the Trump administration official admitted to having lunch with his family on the disgraced financier’s private island in 2012. “I’m glad he told the truth under oath today,” Mace said during an appearance on...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Tuesday became the first Republican senator to speak out against a House GOP-drafted bill to require people to show documented proof of citizenship before registering to vote and to show ID to cast a ballot, a top priority of the Trump administration. Murkowski, a prominent centrist Republican, said the Constitution...
The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January but gained far fewer jobs than initially reported in 2025, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The January employment report showed the labor market booming last month, with the jobless rate ticking down slightly to 4.3 percent. Economists expected the U.S. to...
President Trump’s mandatory detention policy for apprehended migrants has claimed its biggest legal victory yet. Is it a turning point? Only time will tell, but the ever-growing swarm of more than 1,000 cases has now entered a new chapter — one that could prompt the Supreme Court to get involved. The Trump administration’s policy keeps unadmitted migrants who are arrested during enforcement operations locked up without bond, regardless of how long they’ve lived in the U.S. It leaves no discretion. It...
