Former President Trump will stay on Illinois’s state primary ballot for now, after a state judge put her Wednesday ruling on hold until an appeals court weighs the former president’s challenge. Cook County, Ill., judge Katie Porter paused her order to boot Trump from the ballot on Thursday afternoon, less than one day later. The...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday doubled down on his calls to reinstate "Remain in Mexico" for migrants trying to enter the U.S. and recounted telling President Biden that Mexico "will do what we say" if the administration decides to implement the policy. Speaking to reporters about migration, Johnson touted H.R. 2, the House-approved GOP...
The Biden administration is narrowing its highly anticipated climate rule for power plants — dropping a proposed mandate for some existing gas plants to cut their emissions and instead saying it will tackle existing plants at a later date. As part of its delay for existing gas plant rules, the agency says it will eventually...
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that she was launching an investigation into the nationwide AT&T service outage that affected about three-quarters of its customers. In a press release Thursday, James said her office will investigate the causes of and the company’s response to the outage and urged New Yorkers who were...
Global freedom has receded for the 18th consecutive year, according to a report released Thursday by American nonprofit Freedom House. “Global freedom declined for the 18th consecutive year in 2023. The breadth and depth of the deterioration were extensive,” Freedom House said in the report. “Political rights and civil liberties were diminished in 52 countries,...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) declined to say Thursday if he’d help protect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from a conservative revolt. In an interview with The New York Times a day earlier, the Democratic leader had suggested that “a reasonable number” of Democrats in his caucus would cross the aisle to keep Johnson in...
Former President Trump said there are "a lot of good choices" to replace Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as the GOP Senate leader, but he declined to say whom he preferred. "I hear he’s not going to be leader, and he’s taken that step and a lot of people are calling me to politic for that particular...
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged his country’s citizens to have larger families and to make healthier choices to extend life. In his annual address Thursday, Putin warned NATO countries against giving Ukraine more support and touted his country’s nuclear arsenal. He threatened Western allies if they come to Ukraine's aid. The back half of Putin’s...
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd gave a fiery statement on President Biden's border policies during a press conference alongside former President Donald Trump.