Republican Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) tore into his GOP colleagues during a Thursday appearance on Newsmax, criticizing their approach to government funding and saying his colleagues in the party have “nothing to campaign on.” Biggs, former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, slammed his conference after being asked how many of the 12 individual spending...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) revealed a proposal Thursday that would include paid family leave during pregnancy. “We think that we should be able to take care of expectant moms before the baby's born,” Hochul said at an event Thursday. “And we think that they should have time off, so everything's about to change.”...
Rudy Giuliani called on a Georgia state judge Thursday to schedule a hearing over a motion to throw out his criminal indictment on election interference charges. The demand comes nearly four months after the motion was originally filed on Sept. 8. Giuliani pleaded not guilty to a set of charges surrounding the broad Georgia election...
Republican Presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis will appear in back-to-back town hall events in Iowa on Thursday night. The town hall events will provide Haley and DeSantis, who have battled for second place behind former President Trump during the entirety of their campaigns, an opportunity to win over voters in the Hawkeye State...
It's the border bill that could cause a government shutdown. Congressional Republicans are threatening to shut down the government if Democrats don’t pass House Resolution — or H.R. 2 — a sweeping bill that would drastically restrict the asylum process while establishing a vast new surveillance system to forcibly freeze regional migration and crack down on the...
The only hope for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies through building a coalition to neutralize Iran and its dedicated obstruction of a two-state solution.
2023 was the most active year for major labor disputes in more than two decades, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center published Thursday. The analysis looked at data on major work stoppages in 2023 from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which categorizes stoppages as “major” if they involve at...
The family of the late Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) is planning a lawsuit over what they describe as negligent care that led to her death earlier this week. Attorneys representing Johnson’s family sent letters Thursday notifying the Baylor Scott & White Health System and the Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas that the family intends to file a lawsuit claiming “medical negligence resulting...