1993—In Steffan v. Perry, a trifecta of Carter appointees on the D.C. Circuit—Abner J. Mikva, Patricia M. Wald, and Harry T. Edwards—rules that Department of…
President Trump over the weekend pardoned two individuals charged in connection with the investigation into the 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The president issued pardons for Suzanne Ellen Kaye, who served an 18-month sentence for threatening to shoot FBI agents amid an investigation into her involvement in the riots, and Daniel Edwin Wilson, who...
The rift between President Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) escalated over the weekend, as the House eyes a vote this week on the files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The duo traded jabs on social media, with Trump ultimately withdrawing his support for Taylor Greene's 2026 reelection bid. The Georgia...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted The Wall Street Journal over its coverage of U.S.-China trade relations and accused the newspaper of shilling for China. "I think this narrative ... just a terrible Wall Street Journal article today, just complete ... they're taking CCP [Chinese Communist Party] dictation," Bessent said shaking his head at a CNBC...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Wednesday that the U.S. will “impose costs” on Russia if there is “no path to peace in the short term” in Moscow's war with Ukraine. “If there is no path to peace in the short term, then the United States, along with our allies, will take the steps necessary to...
New York health officials on Tuesday confirmed the state’s first locally acquired case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in a person who fell ill in Nassau County on Long Island. The announcement marks the first locally acquired case reported in any U.S. state or territory since 2019, and the first reported in any U.S. state...
Former White House national security spokesperson John Kirby on Tuesday pushed back on an argument from the Pentagon about press access, calling it “a little overdrawn.” "It makes very little sense to me," said Kirby, a retired Navy rear admiral and former Pentagon press secretary, of the new press rules on CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360.”...
Vice President JD Vance said the violent text messages sent by Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones are “far worse” than the newly exposed Young Republicans’ chat in which members joked about gas chambers, slavery and raping their enemies. “This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy...
The images of people snatched off the street by masked armed men in plain clothes smack of the repressive tactics of authoritarian banana republic regimes.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said this week that he's ready for a public debate with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) amid the government shutdown, now in its third week. "I look forward to that," Jeffries told a small group of reporters on Tuesday in his office in the Capitol. "We're going to try to...
President Trump’s adversaries battling criminal charges will face vastly different jury pools — if their cases ever get to trial. Two of the president’s most prominent foes, former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), were hit with two federal counts each in recent weeks, and a third opponent, former...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Wednesday launched a U.S. Senate bid in Massachusetts, setting up a generational challenge as he looks to unseat incumbent progressive Sen. Ed Markey (D). Moulton, a moderate 46-year-old veteran, centered age in his announcement video, saying his party has “clung to the status quo, insisted on using the same old...
