A former top aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was arrested Wednesday on sweeping federal corruption charges alleging she helped steal more than $225,000 in campaign funds tied to former federal Health Secretary Xavier Becerra. Dana Williamson, 53, of Carmichael, was taken into custody and appeared in a Sacramento federal courtroom Wednesday afternoon following the […]
The record-breaking government shutdown is almost at an end after the House voted for a new spending deal late Wednesday night, sending the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk after both Democrats and Republicans voted to reopen the government. In a 222 to 209 vote, the House passed a short-term, Senate-passed continuing resolution to fund […]
The House is voting on a bill to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The vote was scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. House Democrats are expected to oppose the bill, while most Republicans are expected to support it. If it passes, the bill will be sent to President Donald Trump’s desk to […]
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) surprised much of the House, including her own Democratic colleagues, on Wednesday by introducing a motion to condemn Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-IL) for his decision to no longer seek reelection and essentially pave the way for his chief of staff to replace him. Perez introduced a privileged motion that […]
House Republicans are moving to repeal a controversial provision that was slipped into the Senate’s version of the federal funding bill, which would allow senators to sue the government for accessing their data without their knowledge. The provision, which would allow senators to sue the government and receive up to $500,000 or more for each […]
Two House Democrats followed up with the newly merged entertainment company Paramount Skydance on Wednesday after receiving an “inadequate and incomplete” response to their initial inquiry about the Federal Communications Commission’s approval of the $8 billion merger. Over the summer, Skydance joined Paramount after the latter settled a lawsuit with President Donald Trump for $16 […]
A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that survivors and families of the victims from a 2019 terrorist attack on a U.S. naval air base in Florida can sue Saudi Arabia for allowing the gunman in the attack to be on American soil. In a unanimous decision from a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court […]
President Donald Trump’s admission to Fox News host Laura Ingraham that the United States workforce lacks “certain talents and people,” and should therefore expand the H-1B visa program, has stirred a debate among conservatives. In an exchange that aired Tuesday evening, Ingraham suggested that bringing in more foreign workers would have negative consequences for American […]
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will hear a pair of cases challenging state laws banning biological men from women’s sports in January, setting the date for arguments with implications for dozens of similar state laws. The high court scheduled oral arguments for Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. for Jan. […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Wednesday appeared to harden her line against the White House, signaling the widening gulf between President Donald Trump and leading political figures who claim to embody the Make America Great Again movement he started. The Georgia lawmaker rebuked the president’s decision to allow 600,000 students from China to study […]
