Randy Fine won Tuesday night's special election in Florida, and will now hold former Rep. Michael Waltz's seat in the Sunshine State's 6th Congressional District.
The National Security Council (NSC) has provided clarification on reports about Mike Waltz and his staff using personal Gmail accounts for government communications.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is pushing the United Nations to not reappoint Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for another term over accusations of antisemitism.
Trump's proposal for a $5 million gold card residency permit has raised concerns about the potential for money laundering and soaring housing prices, as similar programs in Europe have led to scandals, public outrage and eventual collapse.
The Trump administration has dropped a lawsuit that sought to cut toxic emissions from a facility in a highly polluted area of Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley.” In 2023, the Biden administration filed a lawsuit against Denka Performance Elastomer in an effort to get it to cut down its emissions of chloroprene. Chloroprene is a...
House Democratic leaders warned Friday that they won’t back a long-term extension of current funding levels, which GOP leaders are teeing up for a vote next week. The top Democrats — Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Whip Katherine Clark (Mass.) and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (Calif.) — said the Republicans’ bill is a “partisan” effort “that...
The federal government canceled $400 million in grants to Columbia University amid its antisemitism probe into the school, the Justice Department's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced Friday. The cancellation is due to the university’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,” the Department of Justice, Department of Health and...
Trump has no mandate to inflict ruinous trade wars on America’s friends, disable the federal government rather than reform it and throw Ukraine to the Russian wolves.
Bipartisan legislation introduced by first-term Sens. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) would establish a nationwide response time standard for wildfires affecting public lands. Under the bill, the Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act, all wildfires on Interior Department- or Agriculture Department-administered lands would be subject to a half-hour response standard. In a statement, Sheehy...
SpaceX confirmed Wednesday that it is leasing Starlink kits and service to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for free but denied any push to take over Verizon’s contract to build an updated communications system for the agency. Elon Musk’s space technology company said it is working with L3Harris, the current contractor for the FAA’s telecommunications...
A majority of Americans, including people who voted for President Trump in November, do not want to see Medicaid funding cut, according to a poll from KFF released Friday. More than 80 percent of respondents, including majorities of Democrats, Republicans, independents, Trump voters, and adults living in rural areas, said Medicaid funding should either increase...
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have filed a formal complaint against D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin with the District of Columbia’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel, accusing him of dismissing criminal charges against his own clients and threatening prosecution against government employees to intimidate them. “We write to express our grave concern about actions taken...
Two active-duty U.S. soldiers stationed in Washington state and one former soldier were arrested on bribery and theft charges after being accused of selling sensitive information to China, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Jian Zhao and Li Tian, Army soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and Ruoyu Duan, a former Army soldier, were arrested on...
President Trump's address to Congress was filled with jokes and humor, which was a stark contrast to the serious warnings he gave about the current state of the nation, and his use of humor to engage his MAGA base rather than win over skeptics.
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly on Thursday claimed that President Trump's tariffs against Canada — the U.S.'s largest trading partner — are just a "pretext" for the administration's wish to eventually annex the nation. Trump's 25 percent tariffs against Canada went into effect on Tuesday, with the president arguing that America’s northern neighbor has not...
