A Utah judge on Monday rejected a Republican-passed redistricting plan that created two more-competitive districts in the state — a win for Democrats who thought the map did not...
The Senate on Monday night passed a spending package to reopen the government through at least January, after Republicans won a figurative staring contest over an unrelated extension of enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board panned President Trump’s proposal to provide $2,000 tariff rebate checks to most Americans, calling it a “Hail Mary pass.” “President Trump has a big tariff problem: His border taxes are raising prices on tariffed goods, they’re unpopular with voters, and the Supreme Court might rule that his “emergency”...
Come Tuesday, flights across the country will be reduced by 6 percent on orders from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), despite an end to the government shutdown in sight. The FAA first decreased flight capacity at 40 “high-traffic” airports last Friday, with a 4 percent reduction. At 6 a.m. on Tuesday, that will increase to...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretched into its ninth day. Jeffries has doubled down in recent days on Democrats' demands that expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies be addressed in any continuing resolution. On Wednesday, the lawmaker and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) traded barbs...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his belief that President Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, citing Trump's 20-point peace plan to end the two-year war in Gaza. "Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize — he deserves it!" Netanyahu wrote on social platform X. The post also includes an image generated with...
I am not drinking some liberal pro-environment ivory tower Kool-aid about climate change. Instead, it has been my own experiments, which were never focused on climate change, that have been telling me repeatedly that the Earth’s biggest pollution problem is increased temperatures.
President Trump's moment of truth as a global peacemaker will come early Friday morning when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the prize. “In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars,” he claimed during his address to the United Nations...
The Senate on Thursday voted for a seventh time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, as only three members of the Democratic caucus joined Republicans in voting to resolve the impasse. The House Republican-drafted measure to fund the government through Nov. 21, a "clean" continuing resolution that would keep funding at...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed alarm over the state of the stock market in a recent interview, saying he was "far more worried than others" amid concerns about the economy and the state of the world. Dimon told the BBC in an interview published Wednesday the market could fall into a correction — a...
The federal government shutdown has entered its second week, and already shortages of air traffic controllers have strained operations and disrupted flights at some U.S. airports.
Republican pundit Karl Rove knocked California Democrat and candidate for Governor Katie Porter for an interview during which she was combative with a journalist and refused to answer questions about her candidacy for the state's highest office. “It says something about it that look, she’s an unpleasant person, we’ve known that from the day that...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin on Wednesday defended an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot a pastor with a pepper ball from a rooftop, after a video of the incident went viral this week. Videos of the Sept. 19 incident, which circulated widely Wednesday on social media, showed Pastor...
The Senate on Thursday morning will hold its seventh vote on the GOP- and Democratic-led stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government. Senate Republicans need to flip at least five more Democrats to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to turn the lights back on. Despite three defections thus far, the last six votes on...
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
Trevor Noah says one of the "first things you lose" in authoritarianism is comedy and that fellow comics are "s‑‑‑ting themselves" under President Trump. "When I was growing up until I was 6 years old, maybe even like closer to 10, free speech wasn't a thing," Noah, who was born in South Africa, said during...
