Americans will be advised to eat more butter, meat and other foods high in saturated fats under new government dietary guidelines expected as soon as this coming week.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has endorsed Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City's mayoral race after facing weeks of questions about whether he would back the far-left candidate.

President Trump is sharpening his focus on a Supreme Court fight that could upend his sweeping trade agenda, dubbing it a historic case and terminating Canadian trade talks over alleged interference in the litigation.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) questioned the Trump administration’s strikes on Venezuelan vessels without the approval of Congress. “The administration needs to give insight into Congress. That's part of it. If this was happening with this level of insight under the Biden administration, I'd be apoplectic,” Lankford said during a Thursday appearance on C-SPAN’s new “Ceasefire”...

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) was scammed Thursday by a group claiming to be a cleaning crew, according to authorities. Multiple people claiming to be HVAC workers reportedly visited the delegate's home and managed to charge her credit card. The case is being investigated as felony fraud, local outlets reported. Norton paid the individuals $4,362 in...

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Leading Intelligence Committee Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of leaving them in the dark on strikes in the Caribbean that have killed more than 40 people, demanding information about the intelligence community’s role. The letter requests the legal justifications for the strikes, which has targeted a series of boats the Trump administration has claimed...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Wright pushes FERC to expedite data centers The Trump administration issued a proposal late Thursday would aim to help artificial intelligence (AI) data centers get connected to the electric grid more quickly. © AP Energy Secretary Chris Wright sent the proposal to the Federal...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions.  Sotomayor — joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan — wrote the dissent in response to the conservative majority’s Thursday decision to decline a stay of execution for...