Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) teamed up to release a Wednesday video explaining why they voted against the House Republican-authored stopgap legislation. Its failure in the Senate led to a government shutdown. In the clip that shows them taking a walk and talking together in Washington, the lawmakers raised concerns about the...
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will move to increase staffing at select embassies abroad to account for a likely surge in visa applications for soccer fans hoping to attend 2026 World Cup games in the U.S. The State Department said it will send hundreds of additional consular officers to “designated countries” to handle...
Conservative attorney George Conway argued Wednesday that the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey is “invalid” due to the absence of a required signature. Lindsey Halligan, interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, was assigned to oversee the case and originally signed the indictment documents, but Conway says the law doesn’t allow for...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretches into a second day amid a stalemate in the Senate. Republicans and Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress have failed to agree on a stopgap proposal to reopen the government, with both sides casting blame on the...
A Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is pressing Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to call President Trump’s budget director before the panel to explain his threat to escalate federal firings amid the government shutdown. In a letter sent to Comer on Thursday, Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) portrayed Russell Vought, the head of...
Several Latino advocacy groups called out President Trump over his use of artificial intelligence and memes to target Democratic congressional leaders, including depicting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wearing a Mexican-style sombrero. Hispanic Federation, the Latino Victory Foundation, League of United Latin American Citizens, Mi Familia Vota, UnidosUs and Voto Latino released a joint...
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Wednesday he felt "overwhelmed" after he received support from the Catholic Church's new pontiff and Chicago native, Pope Leo XIV, following recent criticism for his support for abortion rights. "It is amazing to me," Durbin told NBC News on Wednesday. "It’s quite a moment. I didn’t expect it. I didn’t...
Mormons raised nearly $300,000 for the family of the suspect in the shooting at a Michigan church that killed four and injured eight others. The members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints started fundraisers for people and families affected by the late-September shooting at a Mormon church in Grand Blanc Township, Mich. ...
The NFL thought it was just announcing a halftime show. But the moment Bad Bunny was revealed as the 2026 Super Bowl performer, conservative outrage exploded. And that says more about America than it does about music. Let’s be real — Bad Bunny isn’t just another pop star. Born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, he’s a...
Those who rely on food assistance may be feeling uneasy as lawmakers predict the federal government shutdown, which started on Wednesday, will last for at least a week.
Joe Rogan may be America’s most useful bellwether. So goes Joe, so goes the nation… But seriously, it behooves us to listen to the man, the legend, the podcasting giant, and take some cues from him. His political instincts are closely aligned with millions of people who feel alienated from the establishment and the elite...
The U.S. Capitol was quiet on the second day of the government shutdown as votes are not scheduled in either chamber in observance of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) held a press conference with members of his leadership team outside his office at 10 a.m. in an otherwise largely empty House....
Most American voters believe the United States is too politically divided to solve problems, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University released on Thursday. The poll found that 64 percent of registered voters think the country's sharp divisions cannot solve political problems, while 33 percent say the political system can...
