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...
Rep. Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.), while defending her vote to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) on Thursday, urged her fellow Democrats to hold themselves to a higher standard. Pointing to Congress’s low approval ratings, Gillen argued that the decision was "not unprecedented." “There is a certain level of decorum and civility that should be adhered to...
SPONSORED BY: AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (AMA) As baby boomers age, the demand for doctors who care for seniors and accept Medicare insurance is skyrocketing. At the same time, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed an almost 3 percent reduction in physician payments this year, making it the fifth consecutive year of...
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) weighed into the conversation around President Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada, signaling that he's "worried" about the relationship with the U.S.'s top trading partners. Despite the concern, Kennedy said he believes the president will reconsider if the tariffs spur inflation. “I think President Trump on economics and otherwise is doing...
CBS News’ parent company Paramount filed a pair of motions in district court to dismiss President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit stemming from the “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Harris right before the 2024 presidential election. One of two motions, both filed in U.S. district court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday,...
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to create a government reserve of bitcoin along with a "digital asset stockpile" in the administration's latest embrace of the cryptocurrency industry. According to the order, the U.S. government will use the bitcoin already seized by federal law enforcement while disrupting financial crimes to establish the reserve....
Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was added to the FBI’s 10 most wanted list on Thursday for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking network. Authorities have accused him of shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States. Wedding is a Canadian...
SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded minutes after liftoff, with debris reaching Philadelphia and flights being delayed in a couple of states, including Florida. This was the rocket’s eighth test flight. Similarly to the previous attempt, it ended in the 400-foot-tall rocket disintegrating Thursday. It appeared some of the engines had failed and the rocket was spinning out...
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) worries that if nothing is done to curb Medicare payment cuts to physicians, doctors will no longer be able to afford to run their own private practices. “We’re at a crucible where if we don’t fight these cuts now, if we don’t get rid of them, we don’t reverse them,...
Canadian Sen. Patrick Brazeau challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a charity boxing match over the “bogus” tariffs implemented this week by his father, President Trump. "I know, I still can't believe it myself. But I no longer smoke and have been sober for almost 5 years," the Quebec-based senator said in a Thursday post on...
