Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dealt with two controversies this week, as Democrats demand his resignation and Republicans leave his fate with President Trump. Hegseth came under fire after The Washington Post reported that he ordered the military to "kill everybody" on a drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2, when survivors were seen...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is facing a challenging political future as he finds himself at the epicenter of a growing fraud scandal in his home state. The controversy, which focuses on hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly stolen from a federally funded nutrition program, has led to more than 50 convictions. The New York...
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki weighed in Thursday on the discourse around Pentagon media access, calling out the new "press corps" for consisting of mostly conservative influencers. "What is so interesting right now in Washington is what is happening with the Pentagon press corps. It actually surprised me what they did," Psaki, now...
Flight cancellations have mounted as the government shutdown stretches into its second month, causing headaches for travelers nationwide. More than 7,000 flights on Sunday “within, into, or out of” the country had been delayed, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. The number of cancellations for flights “within, into, or out of” the country topped 2,200, the...
President Trump announced on Sunday that most Americans will receive “at least” $2,000 from the tariff revenue collected by the Trump administration. Trump’s statement, made early Sunday on his Truth Social platform, comes after the White House defended his sweeping use of tariffs before the Supreme Court this past week, where the justices appeared skeptical...
The Supreme Court is now weighing whether President Trump’s tariffs, which hinge on a specified economic emergency power, can remain intact. It leaves one of his biggest policy initiatives hanging in the balance. While upholding the tariffs would mark a vast expansion of presidential power, striking them down could unleash a host of dilemmas for...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said Sunday his state is not “going to sit on our hands” amid the nationwide redistricting fight. Last week, Moore formed a redistricting advisory commission to explore redrawing Maryland’s congressional maps. “If other states are going to go through this process ... we're not just going to sit on our...
The Trump administration has ordered states to “undo” Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments. "States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025," a Saturday memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. The department also said in the memo that "failure to comply" could "result in USDA...
Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted in connection with a sports betting and money laundering scheme. The indictment, unsealed in the Eastern District of New York on Sunday, alleges that Clase and Ruiz provided bettors with inside information on their pitches. The co-conspirators then placed wagers on those pitches, with...
As many as 10 Democratic senators are expected to vote for a bill to reopen the government as soon as Sunday evening or early Monday morning, as a group of moderate Democrats, and even some liberals, are ready to end the 40-day shutdown. Centrist Democrats and Republican members of the Senate Appropriations Committee were close...
The U.S. has the technology and legal framework to locate and reunite thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and a bipartisan bill has been passed in the Senate to authorize the use of biometric infrastructure to do so, now awaiting approval in the House of Representatives.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Sunday said that if Democrats vote to advance a House-passed continuing resolution, he will offer as a substitute another stopgap spending measure with a later expiration date combined with three full-year appropriations bills, known as a minibus. Thune told reporters that the Senate will vote Sunday afternoon on...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that "15 to 20" air traffic controllers are retiring daily amid the government shutdown. "I used to have about four controllers retire a day before the shutdown. I'm now up to 15 to 20 a day are retiring," Duffy told CNN's Jake Tapper on State of the Union. "So,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said over the weekend that the nationwide redistricting fight was the start of a “resurgence of energy” among Democrats. “Just the energy that the delegation from Texas brought to the Democratic Party, to democracy as a whole, when they stood up and pushed back against Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s...
The Trump administration is taking a well-earned victory lap after successfully delaying a carbon tax on the shipping and logistics industry at a United Nations meeting in London last month. “The U.S. achieved a diplomatic victory and successfully rallied a coalition to stop the body’s proposed ‘net-zero framework,’” wrote Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the effort to delay by one year a proposal to implement...
