President Donald Trump has demonstrated again why Congress should repeal the Jones Act. This week, he extended his waiver of the century-old law restricting transportation between American ports to vessels built, flagged, and crewed by Americans for another 90 days. Since Trump first issued the waiver in March, 211 ships have used it to transport […]
Gina LaPlaca and her husband Jason Carty face ballot fraud charges after allegedly using fake signatures on her Democratic primary petition in New Jersey.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to make full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments for November despite the government shutdown. U.S. District Judge John McConnell rejected the administration’s plan to provide partial payments without tapping additional funds, saying it failed to comply with his previous order. “This is a problem that...
The man who slung a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington, D.C., and was unwittingly transformed into an opposition symbol of President Trump’s local crime crackdown has been found not guilty of misdemeanor assault after a trial. A jury handed down the not guilty verdict Thursday against Sean Dunn, a former Department of Justice (DOJ) employee who hurled a hoagie after confronting a group of officers patrolling a popular nightlife area of the nation’s capital. The acquittal marks an...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is publicly criticizing the party to secure "the big interview" with media outlets ahead of the midterm elections. “I’m not unaccustomed to hearing criticism from Marjorie. We have intense fellowship as we say in the Deep South, Stephen. And she knows I’ve...
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials will brief reporters Thursday afternoon on the NTSB's probe of a deadly plane crash in Kentucky earlier this week that left 12 people dead, including at least one child. A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday, after its left wing...
President Trump said Thursday he was glad former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was retiring from Congress at the end of her term, deriding her as an "evil woman." "I think she's an evil woman. I'm glad she's retiring. I think she did the country a great service by retiring," Trump told reporters in the Oval...
Multiple airlines are offering refunds and free flight changes to passengers whose travel plans have been impacted by restrictions amid the record-breaking government shutdown. Bryan Bedford, head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), said Wednesday that the agency will reduce capacity by 10 percent at 40 “high-traffic” airports around the country starting Friday morning. The...
President Trump on Thursday will welcome Kazakhstan into the Abraham Accords, the agreements centered around normalizing ties with Israel, two sources confirmed to The Hill. Israel and Kazakhstan have had diplomatic relations since 1992, and it's not clear what benefit Astana will get from joining the accords — although it provides a forum for greater cooperation...
Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral race highlights the divide between moderate and progressive Democrats, and signals that the Democratic Party is open to more grassroots and youth-led movements.
Former President Obama said Thursday that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “made us proud to be Democrats” after she announced she will not seek reelection. “For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) pegged Tuesday's GOP election losses as a sign of voters discontent with the economy, as reflected in exit polls. “I will give the president some credit that inflation has been holding around 2.5 percent, but people in my district are really struggling,” Greene said in an interview published Wednesday by...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is declaring that Tuesday’s elections in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and other states were a total “disaster” for Republicans and “terrible for America.” “Look, last night was a disaster. It was an electoral blowout. The results in New Jersey were disastrous, the results in Virginia were terrible,” Cruz told Fox...
