ALBANY, New York — Rep. Elise Stefanik is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to her upstate House seat, she announced Friday.
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Rep. Elise Stefanik is ending her New York governor campaign, citing family priorities and motherhood in surprise announcement weeks after launching her bid.
A school district is allegedly factoring in race when determining how to discipline students, citing specific examples where students got different treatment for the same infractions.
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is warning that President Trump calling Democratic lawmakers “traitors” is “reckless, inappropriate, irresponsible” Paul on Sunday offered one of the strongest denunciations of Trump’s attacks on Democratic colleagues, including Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), something the president doubled down on over the weekend. “You know, everybody knows that...
Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is warning President Trump and his senior foreign policy advisers that “appeasing” Russia, which he says is the “aggressor” in Ukraine, will not bring peace, offering a critical view of an emerging U.S.-brokered peace deal. “@POTUS is right that Biden’s weakness emboldened enemies like Putin. But those who...
Most Americans are against military action in Venezuela after recent tension in the region, according to a new poll from CBS News/YouGov. In the poll, 70 percent said they were against “the U.S. taking military action in Venezuela,” while 30 percent said they were for it. The U.S. military has recently bolstered its presence near...
President Trump on Sunday said the GOP “has never been so united” after recent tension between himself and some members of the party. “The Republican Party has never been so UNITED AS IT iS RIGHT NOW!” the president said in a post on his Truth Social platform. “Other than Rand Paul, Rand Paul Jr.(Massie!), Marjorie...
Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Texas) said Sunday that her current district will not be “viable” if the Supreme Court upholds a new congressional map. “If these new, very partisan, racially based, gerrymandered maps go forward, that makes the 32nd Congressional District — it swings it 46 points, it doesn't really make it a viable seat,” Johnson...
After she departs Congress in January, could Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) run for higher office? If that happens, one Republican strategist thinks she would not get very far. “I’m thinking there’s some other opportunity, perhaps in the media ecosystem, that she’s looking at,” CNN political commentator Shermichael Singleton said Sunday on “State of the...
Vice President Vance said Sunday that six Democratic lawmakers violated the law by telling service members to disobey illegal orders. “If the president hasn’t issued illegal orders, then members of Congress telling the military to defy the president is by definition illegal,” Vance said on the social platform X. Earlier this week, Democratic Sens. Elissa...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that recent Russia-Ukraine war peace talks were “meaningful” and “productive.” “So, it is in my personal view that we’ve had probably the most productive and meaningful meetings so far in this entire process since we’ve been involved, from the beginning,” Rubio said in Geneva. “We have a very...
Harvard University is struggling with its latest controversy after multiple faculty members, including prominent economist Larry Summers, were revealed to have connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Harvard announced a probe into the matter this week as Summers, a former president of the school, said he would step away from his teaching obligations...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that President Trump’s sweeping tariffs have “nothing to do” with the rise in inflation. In an interview Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker pressed the secretary on the administration’s decision to roll back tariffs on more than 200 food products, just as President Trump...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has joined President Trump in a push to end the Senate's filibuster rule. “The American people are just now emerging from the longest and most devastating government shutdown in U.S. history. And while the blame lies squarely with Senate Democrats, we cannot ignore the weapon they used to hold the country...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Sunday called on Republicans in Congress to denounce President Trump’s threats against him and five other Democratic lawmakers who said that service members can disobey illegal orders. “We’ve heard very little, basically crickets, from Republicans in the United States Congress about what the president has said about hanging members of...
