Sen. Rand Paul failed to strip the reauthorization of the government's chief surveillance power from the annual Pentagon policy spending bill Wednesday night as a bipartisan group of lawmakers fell six votes short.
House Republicans initiated contempt of Congress charges against President Biden's son Hunter Biden after he defied a subpoena to answer questions about his father's involvement in his foreign business deals.
A lawyer for Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for President Trump, may have included fake cases in a November filing, a federal judge said. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman questioned cases highlighted in a motion by David M. Schwartz, a lawyer for Cohen, to have Cohen’s supervised release ended early in a Tuesday filing. Cohen...
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that he believes the Supreme Court should overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Ramaswamy said at a CNN town hall in Iowa on Wednesday that the case, which the court agreed earlier on Wednesday to hear, is about the authority that regulatory...
A new iOS setting designed to address security vulnerabilities has been rolled out to beta testers as of Tuesday, according to Fox Business. A security issue has allowed thieves to take over customers’ iPhone accounts, access saved passwords, lock people out of their digital memories and steal money — all of which Apple said the...
Biden administration staffers held a vigil outside of the White House Wednesday where they called for a cease-fire in Gaza. “A group of Biden administration staffers calling for a ceasefire are gathered right now outside the White House,” an NBC senior White House correspondent posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday....
The House has passed a bill allowing whole milk to be served in school cafeterias for the first time since 2012. The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which permits the National School Lunch Program to serve whole milk, passed 330-99 in the House on Wednesday afternoon. It now heads to the Senate. Regulations have...
The Biden administration and multiple California water agencies signed agreements on Wednesday that will direct $295 million of federal dollars into Colorado River water conservation. The initial partnerships aim to conserve up to 643,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Mead, the basin’s largest storage reservoir, through 2025, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. For reference,...
Former President Trump spoke about taking a recent physical and cognitive exam at a campaign event in Iowa on Wednesday. “I took a physical and I passed with flying colors,” the former president said. “And I took a cognitive exam. I said ‘Doctor, give me anything you want, I want to take it.’” The former...
Former President Trump encouraged his supporters to “go out and vote” despite his leads in current polls at an event in Iowa Wednesday. The former president noted his leads in polls over fellow republican candidates including former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) before emphasizing the need to vote...