Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner and Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on Monday plans to identify federal lands where affordable housing could be built. Turner and Burgum will launch the Joint Task Force on Federal Land for Housing to find underutilized lands for residential development and to streamline...
Tren de Aragua, commonly known as TdA, is the Venezuelan gang targeted by President Trump in recent mass deportations. On Saturday, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the first time it’s been used since World War II. It allows the president to have sweeping powers to deport people and specifically targeted TdA members....
The White House said Friday night that it would eliminate protections from millions of acres declared by former President Biden as national monuments — but later scrubbed that language from its fact sheet. In a fact sheet on an executive order issued late Friday, the Trump administration said it was “terminating proclamations declaring nearly a...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has been the target of scathing criticism from members of his own party after voting for a Republican-drafted stopgap spending bill that cut many nondefense programs, says things are looking good for the Democratic Party, which he says has “a real direction now.” Schumer told The New York...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has postponed his book tour scheduled this week in Baltimore, New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia amid an intense backlash from fellow Democrats over his controversial vote to advance a House Republican-drafted funding package that cuts deeply into non-defense programs. A spokesperson for Schumer’s book tour said that it...
President Trump's administration must devise and implement a plan now to secure the U.S.-Canada border, as human smugglers are taking advantage of the largely undefended land and illegal crossings are poised to skyrocket.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul presented President Trump with data showing that the controversial traffic congestion program, congestion pricing, is working, and is helping to reduce traffic congestion and increase retail sales in New York City.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) narrowly leads in a poll of Democrats on which political leader "best reflects" the “core values” of the party. In a CNN survey released Sunday, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are asked to name one person, when “thinking about Democratic leaders today,” who “best reflects the core values of the Democratic Party.”...
The House Republican campaign committee is taking aim at more than two dozen Democrats in the chamber as it aims to expand its very fragile majority in next year's midterm elections.
Authorities are investigating a possible hate crime after a Catholic Church named after St. Patrick was discovered with "extensive vandalism," including a Satanic message in Wichita, Kansas.