The Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House with bipartisan support, aiming to stop data center energy costs from raising electric bills for families.
Most Americans believe President Trump was aware of the sexual abuse committed by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new survey. The Morning Consult poll, conducted over the weekend, shows 60 percent of all voters say Trump knew about the sexual abuse — including 38 percent who believe Trump also participated...
Parkland shooting survivor Cameron Kasky has launched a bid for Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (D-N.Y.) seat, joining the likes of Jack Schlossberg — former President Kennedy’s grandson — in the race for New York’s 12th Congressional District. “My name is Cameron Kasky, and I'm running for Congress because there's no real path forward for most Americans....
Over 1.9 million Americans filed claims for unemployment benefits in mid-October, the highest mark since early August, according to data from the Department of Labor (DOL). For the week ending on Oct. 18, 1.957 million people filed for unemployment insurance, with 232,000 filing new claims. The data, compiled by the DOL’s Employment and Training Administration,...
The Department of Education on Tuesday announced plans to further dismantle itself and move certain responsibilities to other parts of the federal government, moves that align with President Trump's stated goal to eliminate the department entirely. While some programs are assigned to the Education Department (ED) by federal law, the Trump administration is looking to...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) said Tuesday that he will request unanimous consent on the Senate floor to “immediately” pass a bill to direct the Department of Justice to publicly release all unclassified files related to Jeffrey Epstein after the House approves the legislation. “Once the House passes the bill to release the Epstein...
When you bring a nationally televised crackdown into a city built and sustained by immigrant families — many from Latin America — you’re not just enforcing policy, you’re reshaping political coalitions. You’re turning quiet neighborhoods into battlegrounds.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Meta does not have an illegal monopoly over personal social networking, finding the tech giant competes in a wider social media market that includes the likes of TikTok and YouTube. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg underscored the rapidly changing nature of technology in his 89-page ruling, noting that the...
President Trump said on Tuesday he believed a U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal could happen in the future, opening the door to a program Riyadh has long hoped for. “I could see that happening. It’s not urgent,” Trump said, when asked whether the U.S. will sign a nuclear civil cooperation deal with the Kingdom. Trump, who made...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed President Trump’s latest statement on health care reform as “unhinged ramblings” that will “no nothing to lower” costs. “Donald Trump’s unhinged ramblings shows he still has no idea how anything actually works. His ‘plan’ makes no sense,” Schumer said in a statement responding to Trump’s plan...
Most Democratic and Republican voters said “extreme political rhetoric” contributed to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in a recent poll. In the NBC News poll, 54 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of Republicans said that they “feel more that extreme political rhetoric used by some in the media and by political leaders...
The FTC previously accused Amazon of using "deceptive methods" to register millions of customers for paid Prime subscriptions, then making it difficult for those customers to cancel.
President Barack Obama's long form birth certificate was finally released in 2011, but the birther conspiracy theory still persisted, showing the need for politicians to confront conspiracies, no matter how outrageous they are.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he will vote on Tuesday for the bill to directing the Department of Justice to release files relating to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even as he expressed deep concerns with the measure and said he hoped the Senate would make changes to it. “I'm going to vote to move this...
