A federal judge shot down FBI Director Kash Patel's attempt to move his bureau's headquarters down the street to the Ronald Reagan Building, saying he broke laws governing site selection.
A poll released earlier this month claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had a wide lead over Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman in the city's mayoral race was bogus, according to the company that released it. Median Strategies on Monday said in its announcement about the mayoral race poll that it has stopped...
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday quipped that she "can't remember the last time" she saw someone wear President Trump's trademark MAGA hat. The former lawmaker shared a post on the social platform X showing a billboard that read "Trump Superstore," with an adjacent sign saying that it was "going out of business."...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday urged the Trump administration to tell Israel to protect Palestinians being attacked by "lawbreaking settlers" in the West Bank. "The ongoing siege of Palestinian homes in the West Bank by violent, lawbreaking settlers is unacceptable. Enough," Jeffries wrote on the social platform X. "The Trump administration must...
President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.
Retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis on Sunday warned that the U.S. should watch Iran’s actions in the Suez Canal. “It’s got more traffic flowing through it than the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranians are beginning to make noises about attempting to close that, using the Houthis in the southwest corner,” Stavridis told CNN’s...
As Congress considers how to respond to AI-enabled fraud, it should also revisit a tax code that treats victims differently depending on whether they were manipulated with promises of wealth or promises of love.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has increasingly bucked his party in recent years, went after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for his endorsements of former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and current Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. On Saturday, Sanders held a rally alongside El-Sayed and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in Detroit. Both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez,...
President Trump on Sunday called on Congress to add Iran to a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill to honor the bill's late author, former Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The bill, first introduced in April 2025, has seen recent momentum after having been stalled in Congress while Trump seeks to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin to...
The reignited Iran war is raging after the U.S. military launched retaliatory attacks Saturday in response to Iranian strikes that saw two service members killed in Jordan. President Trump called the deaths "a very sad thing," saying "they were in service of our country." Meanwhile, the president's Thursday primetime speech — when he revisited his...
President Trump on Saturday said the deaths of U.S. service members in Jordan is “a very sad thing.” “We hate to see it happen. They were in service of our country. And they, every one of them will never allow, they’ll fight to the death. But never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon," Trump...
Victims’ stories can sometimes illuminate policy failures and inspire meaningful reforms. But compelling stories are no substitute for careful, non-partisan analysis.
Sen. Jon Ossoff is going on offense against President Trump, emerging as one of the Democratic Party’s most aggressive critics on elections — an issue that hits close to home for the Georgia Democrat. Ossoff won his seat in the Senate in a runoff election held on Jan. 5, 2021 — a day before the...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth kicked a hornet’s nest with his move this week to test troops’ testosterone levels. Hegseth argues the effort, to become part of the military’s periodic health assessment for troops over 30, will ensure the optimal performance and long-term health of warfighters. But medical experts say Hegseth's rationale for the directive isn't...
Tech employees in Silicon Valley are increasingly finding themselves at odds with industry executives, who are spending millions to push for light-touch AI regulation. The latest disagreement is playing out in a new political spending fight between OpenAI’s rank-and-file employees and the firm’s co-founder and president Greg Brockman. A group of current and former OpenAI...
Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce that was distributed to 27 states after federal health officials linked the lettuce from its supplier in central Mexico to the spread of an “explosive diarrhea” parasite. Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked shredded iceberg lettuce from a single...
