Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats filed a complaint last month with the District of Columbia Bar against U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin. The complaint is yet another example of left-wing efforts to sic bar associations on lawyers supportive of President Donald Trump. A massive effort known as The 65 Project came about precisely to […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is giving a big boost to the effort to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, an idea that has bipartisan backers in Congress and broad support among the public. The deliberate and public push from Jeffries — coming as he accuses Republicans of potential “stock manipulation” given...
Hawkish national security experts are slamming President Trump’s opening bid for nuclear talks with Iran as little more than a rehash of the Obama-era nuclear deal, leading his top negotiator to backtrack on his previous position. Trump's point person for talks with Iran, Steve Witkoff, said Monday night that the Islamic Republic could maintain a...
Harvard University has chosen battle with the Trump administration. Harvard became the first university on Monday to openly reject the administration's demands to change its policies, leading the federal government to pause $2 billion in contracts with the Ivy League school and President Trump to threaten its tax-exempt status. The higher education world will watch...
Seth Rogen's remarks critical of President Trump and his support from tech executives at a ceremony "honoring scientists as heroes of our society" were reportedly cut from a stream of the event. The "Knocked Up" star appeared as one of the onstage presenters at the Breakthrough Prize in Santa Monica, Calif., earlier this month. But...
GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge Tuesday ordered depositions from several Trump officials, blasting the administration for failing to take any steps to secure the return of a Maryland man wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison. During a hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis repeatedly clashed with Drew Ensign, an attorney with the Justice...
About 1 in every 31 children were diagnosed with autism in 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continuing a trend of increases from previous years that researchers largely attributed to better screening. The 2022 figure marks a slight increase from the report’s 2020 finding of 1...
South Africa’s newly appointed U.S. envoy Mcebisi Jonas has already come under fire for remarks made about President Trump as the relationship between the two countries has crumbled in recent months. Jonas, who was appointed Monday by President Cyril Ramaphosa, called Trump a racist and homophobic during a speech in 2020, just days after former...
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Tuesday that the district will begin to implement a list of “extraordinary measures” — from hiring freezes to potential furloughs — because of the potential for severe budget cuts after the failure of the GOP-majority House to pass a fix requested by President Trump. Bowser said in an order set...