Top White House officials visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to convince hesitant Senate Republicans to back the House's $95 billion plan for a filibuster-proof budget reconciliation package and to kickstart the process before leaving for August recess.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) late Wednesday evening canceled a scheduled meeting to consider the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department amid opposition from some GOP senators on the panel. “Chairman Grassley works to set President Trump’s nominees up for success in committee, not failure. Senators Cornyn...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday he is launching a probe into Dr. Anthony Fauci after the longtime health official invoked the Fifth Amendment 100-plus times during a Senate hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic. “Fauci's lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote on social platform X. “My office is launching an investigation...
A man has been found guilty in a federal terrorism prosecution tied to the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie four years ago, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ said in a Wednesday press release that 28-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairview, N.J. had been convicted by a federal jury of trying to give...
A securities attorney says the Trump brothers' investment in a company tied to a $1.6 billion Kazakhstan tungsten deal raises suspicions but lacks proof.