Elon Musk continues criticism of Republican "big, beautiful bill" on X, calling it "insane spending" that increases debt ceiling by $5 trillion and threatening to form a new political party.
Demonstrators arrested at U.S. Capitol while protesting Republican tax bill, carrying coffins representing potential Medicaid and SNAP benefit losses across multiple states.
An attack on Sunday shook the Boulder, Colo. community, as eight individuals were wounded while attending a peaceful gathering calling for the return of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas into Gaza during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Here’s what to know about what took place in Boulder: Authorities investigating as terror attack The...
In today’s issue: Senators put the budget bill under the microscope In the Senate, President Trump’s signature “big, beautiful bill” is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Amid increasing pressure to enact Trump’s sweeping agenda, Senate Republicans are taking control of the party’s mammoth tax and domestic policy bill today, kicking off a key four-week...
The Trump administration is coming under scrutiny for deporting several U.S. citizen children along with their foreign-born parents. Trump officials have defended the move, saying the minors were not deported, rather the parents have elected to take them along rather than be separated from their children. But attorneys for the families involved in such cases say...
Public health experts say Robert F. Kennedy Jr is exactly who they thought he was. The Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary — who is also the nation’s most well-known vaccine skeptic — is remaking the agency in his image, casting doubt on the benefits of vaccines, and erecting new barriers that will make it harder...
The Supreme Court this week reshaped how the federal government thinks about fossil fuel infrastructure. While environmental groups frequently describe projects ranging from coal mines to pipelines as “carbon bombs,” the high court says that may not be the case — finding the projects themselves are not responsible for the upstream or downstream pollution for...
The White House said late Sunday that the suspect arrested in connection to the attack in Boulder, Colo., is an “illegal alien” who overstayed his visa. “A terror attack was committed in Boulder, Colorado by an illegal alien,” Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, said in a...
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) strongly criticized federal officers with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for entering his district office and briefly detaining one of his staffers last week, calling the incident “deeply troubling.” In the Wednesday episode, first reported by Gothamist and captured on video, a DHS officer is seen handcuffing an aide, who...
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt condemned the recent “rage-filled, violent attacks” at Jewish gatherings and called on public officials to do more before “the crisis escalates even further.” In a post Sunday on X, Greenblatt connected the Sunday attack in Boulder, Colo.— which targeted a group of peaceful participants in a weekly walk to...
Americans are more likely to say neither party has strong leaders than they are to attribute the characteristic to either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, according to the latest CNN/SSRS poll. In the May poll, released on Sunday, respondents were asked which party is best described as “the party with strong leaders.” More...
The FBI and local law enforcement are investigating an attack Sunday afternoon in Boulder, Colo., that left multiple people injured. FBI Director Kash Patel called the incident a "targeted terror attack." The Boulder Police Department said officers responded to “reports of several victims” at a pedestrian mall and evacuated several blocks in the area near...
