House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that the Trump administration is moving to drop the criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams in order to exercise control over the embattled politician. “What is clear is that the White House made a decision to dismiss the criminal charges pending against Mayor Adams...
Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) filed an appeal Thursday against his conviction and 11-year sentence for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and luxury cars in exchange for political favors. The punishment issued in January made Menendez the first public official ever convicted of acting as a foreign agent while in...
Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota announced Thursday she won't seek re-election in 2026, forcing the Democratic Party to defend another open seat in next year's midterms.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols issued a ruling after USAID employees asked him to uphold an order halting President Donald Trump's order placing nearly all agency employees on leave.
President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, passed a key procedural vote in the Senate on Thursday, clearing the path for his final confirmation vote.
People pounced on Rick Warren tweet that says, "If you’re looking for the #realJesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan motivations, you’ll find him in the middle, not on either side."
About 75,000 federal employees have accepted President Donald Trump’s deferred resignation program, after more than 2 million federal civilian employees were offered buyouts in January.
More than 200 House and Senate Republicans are backing a bill to repeal the federal estate tax just as congressional negotiators are discussing taxation.