President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in November on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea. Trump confirmed the pair’s first face-to-face meeting of his second term in a social media post on Friday after the two leaders spoke on the phone for approximately two hours. “I just […]
A new cultural center themed around the “American Dream Experience” is set to open this weekend in Washington, D.C. The Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream is scheduled to open on Saturday, capping off over a decade of work on the roughly $500 million project. The main attraction at the five-story museum, which boasts […]
Alex Acosta, the former federal prosecutor who orchestrated the controversial 2008 plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein, arrived for testimony Friday in a closed-door transcribed interview before the House Oversight Committee as lawmakers ramp up scrutiny of past failures in the long-running federal investigation. Acosta, who later served as Labor Secretary under President Donald Trump during his first term, […]
In an effort to redistrict the state mid-decade, Republican lawmakers in Missouri passed a new congressional map featuring a precinct in Kansas City that is accounted for twice. State Republicans took about one week to pass a new congressional map that slices the Kansas City area in an effort to dilute Democratic votes and create […]
A resolution honoring the life of Charlie Kirk passed the House Friday during a fight to fund the government, splitting the Democratic caucus. The resolution passed 310-58, with unified Republican support. Democrats were divided, with 95 members voting in support, 58 opposing, and 38 other Democrats voting present. House Democratic leadership told its caucus in […]
The House of Representatives passed a short-term spending deal on Friday to fund the government until late November, sending the legislation to the Senate, where eyes are on Democrats to see whether they will stay united with a majority of their House colleagues. The lower chamber passed the continuing resolution 217-212. Two Republicans voted against […]
Slightly over half of California voters support Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot measure determining whether the state’s congressional districts are redrawn in the November special election. A new Emerson College poll released on Friday shows 51% of voters saying they plan to vote in favor of Proposition 50 to help California fight against Republicans’ own redistricting […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new book about the 2024 presidential race is quickly becoming a collection of things she might have done if only she trusted the voters more. That assessment is based on a handful of excerpts of 107 Days, the campaign memoir that was written to get out Harris’s side of the […]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is requesting records of his 2026 opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, to determine whether he used taxpayer funds to pay for trips to meet his alleged mistress. Cornyn’s campaign filed an open records request with Paxton’s office under the Texas Public Information Act for such documents, escalating the feud between […]
Federal law enforcement agencies said they are “tracking several threats of unknown credibility” against attendees of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on Sunday. The memorial service is open to the public and will be held at the massive State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals, in Glendale, Arizona, a large suburb of Phoenix. President Donald […]
