Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.
Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...
Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...
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...
President Trump will give remarks Friday morning after the first jobs report was released following his return to the Oval Office. The U.S. added 151,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.1 percent, according to the report released Friday by the Labor Department. The data shows the job market holding steady amid rising...
President Trump has offered an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship to South African farmers, calling their treatment in the country "terrible" and citing property laws that impose "unjust racial discrimination" against white Afrikaner farmers.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that Russia launched a "massive" drone and missile attack on Ukraine's energy facilities, adding that Moscow should be forced to stop the war. "In total, the Russians used nearly 70 missiles, both cruise and ballistic, as well as almost 200 attack drones," Zelensky said in a post on the...
