House Republicans released legislation Sunday that would increase Pentagon spending by $150 billion, pushing the total defense budget for fiscal year 2025 to more than $1 trillion if passed. The bill, developed by the House and Senate Armed Services committees, includes nearly $25 billion earmarked for President Trump’s long-discussed Golden Dome missile defense initiative, a...

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) announced Monday that he will step out of the top Democratic seat on the powerful Oversight and Government Reform Committee, citing the return of the esophagus cancer he’s been battling since late last year.  Connolly said he will also be leaving Congress at the end of the term, his ninth serving...

Two Democratic board members at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) sued President Trump on Monday for firing them. The lawsuit marks the latest challenge to Trump’s terminations of independent agency leaders across the federal bureaucracy, testing the bounds of presidential power. Earlier this month, Trump fired Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka, the two Democrats on NCUA’s...

A federal judicial appointment does not include a roving commission to cure perceived social ills through employment boycotts.

President Trump shared his thoughts on how his two terms as president have differed, saying in a new interview with The Atlantic that this time around he's leading "the country and the world." “The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” Trump...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday thanked North Korea for deploying troops to aid in the Kremlin’s recent military operation against Ukraine. "Our North Korean friends’ move was guided by a sense of solidarity, justice and genuine comradery," Putin said in a statement, reported by the state-run news organization TASS. "We highly appreciate this and...

Trump has set the stage for American families to become sicker, poorer and less safe while destroying the public health and disaster response programs that could help them.

President Trump tore into a number of leading news organizations over polling conducted in recent days showing his favorability with voters dipping. "These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD," Trump wrote, mentioning polling from The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC and Fox News in a post on his Truth Social website. "They...

More Americans are now critical of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration than were earlier this year, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. When asked if they “approve or disapprove of the way Elon Musk is handling his job in the Trump administration,” 57 percent said they disapproved "somewhat" or "strongly." That...

President Trump is kicking off a media blitz this week to mark the first 100 days of his second term in the White House. Trump is expected to take a victory lap with a speech Tuesday in Michigan, touting his administration’s work on the southern border and inflation in the battleground state he flipped red...