Mayor Eric Adams' budget, which he rolled out Thursday, merely continues the city’s longtime practice of overspending while hiding actual program costs.
The Rev. Homero Sanchez said he didn't realize the depth of fear in the Chicago immigrant community he serves until someone asked him to handle the sale of their family's home and other finances if they are picked up this week when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
TikTok thanked President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday for promising to suspend a ban on the Chinese-owned social media platform, as it began restoring service to millions of U.S. users who had been bereft of the popular app for several hours.
Democrats are opening the door to collaborating with Republicans on a tax bill as the GOP faces several obstacles on the road to extending President-elect Trump's tax-cut law. While it will be tough for Democrats to get anything they want in a GOP tax bill, the narrow Republican majority along with substantial divisions within the...
President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row, and their sentences will be reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole. The president, in announcing the commutations, said he is “more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal...
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday that Democrats will not save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) if he fails to get enough support from his own party to retain his gavel. Jeffries pointed to the collapse of the bipartisan government funding agreement as a key reason Johnson would not get support from Democrats,...
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday it’s important for his party to remain calm and be physically present at the start of the next Congress, pointing to the historically slim margin between the two parties in the lower chamber. “It's important for us to stay calm, stay present at all times, because...
President-elect Trump said Sunday that Katie Miller, who served in Trump’s previous administration, will join the inaugural "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), a new advisory board headed by Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk that aims to slash excessive government spending and regulations. Miller is also married to incoming deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, a...
Hefty donations from tech companies and leaders to President-elect Trump’s inaugural fund are a sign of Silicon Valley’s shifting relationship with the incoming leader after past tensions. While inaugural donations by companies are nothing new, observers suggest the cash, coupled with meetings at Mar-a-Lago, signal several leading technology businesses are trying to improve their...
Learning to read can become exponentially more difficult for older students and adults who have fallen behind, creating grave concerns as the number of individuals struggling with literacy into high school and adulthood is increasing. Data released in recent months shows K-12 schools are seeing more older students who cannot read at their grade...
President Biden made what may be his diplomatic curtain call this month with a long-promised trip to Africa, becoming the first president to visit Angola and first since Barack Obama to visit the continent — with President-elect Trump in between. It’s unclear whether Trump will pay more attention to Africa this time around, but the...
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria has exposed the fragility of other autocratic regimes, such as Nicolás Maduro's government in Venezuela, which relies on external support and faces growing impatience from its people.
Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.V.) slammed the Democratic Party as “toxic” and said the country is “not going left” as he winds down his tenure in the Senate. “The D-brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of, it’s just, it’s toxic,” Manchin said in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju that aired Sunday. Manchin,...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) predicted in a Sunday interview that tech billionaire Elon Musk’s influence over President-elect Trump will end. “When does this end?” ABC News’s Jonathan Karl asked Christie on “This Week” of Musk’s influence on Trump. “It ends when Trump believes that something has gone wrong, and he needs someone...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) didn't rule out Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s picks for Defense Secretary and head of the FBI, as nominees for their roles in an interview that aired Sunday. “You met with Pete Hegseth,” ABC News’s Jonathan Karl said in the “This Week” interview, with Fetterman responding that he “did.”...
