Democratic senators on Wednesday hammered the Federal Communications Commission's leader for pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air, suggesting that Brendan Carr was politicizing an independent agency and trampling the First Amendment.
When the funding for Shannon Johnson's job as a school mental health counselor came to an abrupt end, two years into a five-year grant, she thought about the work left to be done.
Consumer prices rose at a lower-than-expected rate for the year leading to November, the Department of Labor said Thursday in its first major inflation report since the government shutdown.
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) really doesn’t like it when people accuse him of suing nuns. The solution here is simple: He should stop fighting nuns in court. The Little Sisters of the Poor, nine years after defeating the Obama administration in the Supreme Court over the contraception mandate, eight years after President Donald Trump issued […]
An old argument has returned to debates over the war in Ukraine: that Russia might not have invaded had Ukraine pledged to stay out of NATO. Amanda Sloat, a senior official on President Joe Biden’s National Security Council, suggested this week that Ukrainian neutrality could have spared lives. She’s wrong. Russia would have invaded Ukraine regardless of […]
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua is facing blowback for an appearance he made on a livestream this week during which he promised a pair of internet personalities he would do a touchdown dance widely viewed as having antisemitic undertones. During the stream with influencers Adin Ross and N3on, the football player is seen...
Top House Democrats on Thursday called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to hold an immediate vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. The Democrats succeeded this week in forcing a vote on a three-year extension of the ObamaCare tax credits when four centrist...
Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson on Wednesday defended his photos of White House aides taken for a profile on chief of staff Susie Wiles, after the both story and his images were met with criticism from Trump administration officials and allies. "It is curious that the internet is shocked that I would not retouch the...
Alan Dershowitz, the former lawyer of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, cast doubt on the constitutionality surrounding third presidential terms, saying he told President Trump it was "not clear." Dershowitz, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, said he gave Trump a draft copy of his upcoming book on the topic during a recent...
House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee are asking a government watchdog to undertake a review of the Trump administration’s hiring practices, citing issues with trainees as they dramatically ramp up recruitment of immigration enforcement agents. The Trump administration in August ended age limits for those interested in serving as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers,...