Former Vice President Kamala Harris‘s decision this week not to enter California’s gubernatorial contest has left the door open to a third White House run, a gamble that carries both benefits and possible pitfalls. Harris, who ran as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, has greater name recognition than many other governors, senators, representatives, and mayors who have […]
The Democratic Governors Association on Friday called for an aggressive retaliatory response that matches Texas‘s redistricting efforts designed to build the House Republicans’ narrow majority. Gov. Laura Kelly (D-KS), who leads the organization, urged her peers to actively oppose the Trump-backed efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional districts. “It’s incumbent upon Democrat governors, if they have […]
President Donald Trump on Friday said he wants his administration to release “everything” in the Epstein files but urged caution in doing so, warning that people could get hurt in the process. “We’d like to release everything, but we don’t want people to get hurt that shouldn’t be hurt,” he told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty […]
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would most likely not remove Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve because it would cause financial disruption. “They say it would disturb the market. I would remove him in a heartbeat, but they say it would disturb the market,” he told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty […]
The Senate on Friday broke a multiday impasse by passing the first three fiscal 2026 spending bills, the first time the upper chamber has passed appropriations bills before the August recess since 2018. The vote on the package of bills combining the Military Construction-VA and Agriculture-FDA bills passed 87-9. Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) […]
Authorities launched a manhunt on Friday after a shooter killed at least four people at a Montana bar hours earlier. The suspect was identified as 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, who remains at large. Police described him as “armed and dangerous,” urging the public to stay out of the surrounding area and not approach him. The […]
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) began circulating a draft letter among House Democrats asking the Trump administration to make the United States join other nations in recognizing a Palestinian state. The Democratic-led effort comes after France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Malta have all recently announced their intentions to recognize Palestinian statehood amid the Israel-Hamas war. […]
Democrats are targeting Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) over his stock trading after the freshman Republican dismissed the idea of telling his financial advisors to hold off on trades this week. The issue of congressional stock trading has gained new momentum this Congress, with a bipartisan group of House members banding together to ban lawmakers from […]
President Donald Trump has amassed a nearly $200 million war chest through the first six months of 2025, a gargantuan sum for a term-limited politician. According to a Federal Election Commission filing submitted Thursday by MAGA Inc., Trump’s super PAC, the president raised roughly $177 million in the first six months of his second term […]
The House Oversight Committee indefinitely postponed the congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, citing a pending Supreme Court petition in her criminal case. In a letter sent Friday, Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) agreed to delay Maxwell’s previously planned Aug. 11 deposition following a request from her attorneys, who argued that testimony […]
