Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) will launch a listening tour this month amid increasing speculation that he will run for the White House in 2024. On his “Faith in America” listening tour, Scott will hold an event to honor Black History Month on Feb. 16 in Charleston, S.C., and later head to Iowa, where he will...

Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a new bill Thursday which would prevent the Consumer Product Safety Commission from regulating the banning of gas stoves. The Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act comes on the heels of national debate over a CPSC comissioner raising the prospect of a ban on the stoves,...

With Roy Wood Jr. “The Daily Show” is extending its lead over “Saturday Night Live” for producing the most White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner entertainers. The “Daily Show” correspondent was announced Thursday as this year’s headliner for the April 29 gala in Washington. The selection of Wood brings the number of comedians from Comedy Central’s satirical...

U.S. companies announced roughly 103,000 job cuts in January, the highest monthly total since September 2020, a Thursday analysis found. Last month was the worst January for job cuts since the Great Recession in 2009, according to a report from employment firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.  Around 40 percent of last month’s job reductions came...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who has challenged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) leadership and strategy on multiple fronts, told CNN in an interview that he doesn't think McConnell kicking him off the powerful Commerce Committee "made any sense." But Scott said he’s undeterred by the setback, which some Senate conservatives think is payback after...

The Treasury Department recently designated the Kremlin-linked mercenary outfit, the Wagner Group, as a Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO). The announcement was met with fanfare — and rightly so. The Wagner Group is a notorious private military company with a brutal human rights record, not only in Ukraine but also in Syria, the Central African Republic,...

The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report is giving Republicans a slight edge in a slew of competitive 2024 House races, rating 18 GOP-held seats as toss-ups or “lean Republican,” compared to 24 Democratic-held seats that were rated similarly. Cook Political Report’s House editor Dave Wasserman explained in an analysis released on Thursday that one...

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican who has long been a critic of former President Trump, said he would support Trump if he is the GOP nominee for president in 2024. Hogan, who is mulling a White House bid of his own, has said he does not think Trump will be the party’s...

The Northeast could be hit with the coldest weather in decades starting Friday into the weekend, with wind chills forcing temperatures near or below zero degrees Fahrenheit. Philadelphia, Pa., New York City, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., are expected to see wind chills in the single digits over the next two days, according to the Weather...

North Carolina trial judges ruled last year that banning convicts on probation from voting disproportionately harms Black residents. The state Supreme Court will hear the case Thursday.