The recent “Saturday Night Live” cold open spoofed a reported clash between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In the sketch, James Austin Johnson’s President Trump is in the Oval Office with Marcello Hernández’s Rubio, with the president telling his secretary of State that he “can’t have you fighting with Elon.”...
Mexico is reviewing its tariff policy over China, and an American investor group has signed a huge deal taking control over key ports near the Panama Canal, indicating that Trump's America First foreign policy is yielding concrete results in a short time.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said during a radio interview that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has done a complete “about face” on the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal that was not signed after the heated meeting between the two delegations late last month. “I'm really grateful and glad that Zelensky, in the last several days, has done...
Democrat lawmakers and veterans' groups are fuming over the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) plans to cut roughly 80,000 employees in the coming months, decrying the lack of transparency and lack of pushback from their colleagues across the aisle. VA officials insist the dismissals won’t damage or delay veterans’ medical care or benefits. Secretary Doug...
The White House sees few, if any, limits on President Trump's executive powers in his second term, but the federal court system is much less sure. Trump's mass firings and dismantling of various independent agencies has run into hurdles in the judiciary, where the courts seem unamused with the “King” Trump idea that some of...
House Democrats in districts carried by President Trump are confronting a potentially risky vote next week when GOP leaders are expected to put their partisan government funding bill on the floor. If the vulnerable Democrats support the bill, they’ll defy the position of their own leadership and undermine the party’s argument that the legislation is...
During a June 2019 MSNBC Democratic presidential primary debate, co-moderator Savannah Guthrie asked the candidates to raise their hands if their healthcare plans would cover undocumented immigrants. All ten candidates, including former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, raised their hands. That shocking moment demonstrated just how far left the party had […]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s wife, Sandra Whitehouse, has long worked with, and been compensated by, a nonprofit that got millions in federal funds from legislation that he backed.
Airline safety is back in the news after several tragic incidents in US skies, and airline maintenance jobs are now at a premium, experts and lawmakers said.