Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted for a second time this month to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security as they continue to push for major changes to the way the Trump administration conducts immigration enforcement.
A Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday rejected a request from an immigrant rights group to temporarily block the IRS from sharing certain taxpayer data that could make it easier to identify and deport people who are in the U.S. illegally.
More than 50 congressional Democrats plan to boycott President Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, participating instead in counter-programming or skipping events entirely.
During the State of the Union address Tuesday night, House Speaker Mike Johnson will display the marble gavel that America's first President George Washington used in 1793 to lay the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol building.
The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024.
Going into his 2024 State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden was facing what the press called a coordinated Republican effort to paint him as too old and mentally declined to hold the job. Biden tried to disprove those charges by angrily yelling for more than an hour. The media loved it. STATE OF […]
The State of the Union has been the occasion for many very bad ideas. I’ve been watching them for decades, and today, ahead of Trump’s address, I am going to blog on some of the worst moments in 21st-century State of the Union addresses. The first State of the Union I covered in person was […]
Attending my great friend (and great journalist) Al Weaver’s bachelor trip to Chicago last summer, I met Ryan Tilley. Ryan is a great guy. He’s also an intelligent, composed, and handsome husband and father. Through Al, I had known about Ryan’s twin brother, Mike. Mike Tilley was diagnosed with colon cancer in July 2021 at the age of […]
Barack Obama was elected president, promising to take on corporate lobbyists. Because much of the news media took Obama’s word for it, he kept peddling the story throughout his presidency. PREEMPTIVE FACT CHECK ON OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION So on the morning of Obama’s first State of the Union address, I wrote a preemptive […]