President Donald Trump's special envoy to Belarus recently revealed that he helped ingratiate himself with the country's autocratic leader by echoing Alexander Lukashenko's disdain for Europe with vulgar language and by negotiating his way through a boozy lunch during their first meeting.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) is banning his staff from trading on prediction markets, which have recently come under congressional scrutiny. “Effective today, Congressman Moulton is instituting an office-wide policy prohibiting his congressional staff from participating in prediction market platforms, such as Polymarket and Kalshi,” Moulton’s press office said in a post on the social platform...
President Trump said Wednesday at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) annual fundraising dinner that he avoids using the word “war” to describe the conflict in Iran. “I won’t use the word 'war' because they say if you use the word 'war,' that’s maybe not a good thing to do,” Trump told the crowd of...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the Trump administration doesn't plan to seek congressional authorization for the war in Iran, saying the move was "unnecessary" because the conflict has been ongoing for nearly a month.
Social Security has long been known as the third rail of politics, given that every attempt to fix the program over the past 30 years has proven politically toxic -- but a valiant group of senators is plowing ahead anyway
President Trump on Wednesday called on Congress to pass an 18-month extension of a federal surveillance law without changes, saying the military needs it more than ever due to the war with Iran.
A federal appeals court said Wednesday that the Trump administration is likely on solid legal ground with its new interpretation allowing mandatory detention of illegal immigrants as they await their deportation hearings.
Florida AG James Uthmeier warned NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to drop the Rooney Rule by May 1 or face civil rights enforcement actions under Florida law.
The DHS shutdown impasse deepened Wednesday as the Senate GOP rejected Democrats' latest offer, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., arguing there was "no point" in countering.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed that Iran could have hit Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities through proxies in Venezuela had the Trump administration not intervened.
The White House and DOJ are pushing back against Rep. Jamie Raskin's letter alleging Trump mishandled classified documents, calling the accusations baseless and a political stunt.
They’re relatively confident that the military can destroy things, but they’re skeptical that destroying things alone leads to an improved political settlement.
