Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressed Vice President Vance over the precepts of free speech, citing threats from the Trump administration as an example of its impediment. “@JDVance, you lied to the world in Munich. If this administration believed in free speech as you claimed, its leaders wouldn’t be threatening members of Congress with criminal investigations...
The top criminal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday, following a reported directive to launch an investigation into Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding approved under the Biden administration. According to media reports, Cheung said the probe was premature in a letter to the interim U.S. Attorney...
Donald Trump has eroded the idea of truth, focusing on creating stories that serve his political base rather than actual facts, threatening the future of democracy.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1970s of murdering two FBI agents, was released from prison Tuesday after then-President Biden commuted his sentence in the final hours of his presidency. Peltier was released Tuesday morning from Florida’s maximum-security Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, where he has been incarcerated since 2014. “I am...
Rep. Vern Buchanan and Dr. Mark Hyman are advocating for a "Food as Medicine" movement to prevent chronic diseases and save health care costs, while HHS Secretary Kennedy supports this initiative.
New Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said Tuesday that union workers and labor leaders will be “core to my decision-making.” “As Trump wages his war on working families, Democrats will fiercely answer the call to my favorite old union song, ‘Which Side Are You On?’ I’ll tell you what: Democrats are on the...
The United States saw double the number of fatal plane crashes under President Joe Biden's first month in office than during the second Trump administration's first month.
President Donald Trump announced on social media Monday that he would be nominating interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin to head the office after Martin took the helm shortly after Trump's inauguration.
President Donald Trump is on a mission to slash the federal government's size. Here's all you need to know about political appointees and career government employees.