President Donald Trump on Tuesday distanced himself from the firing of The Late Show host Stephen Colbert, suggesting that Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon could be next on the chopping block. Following news earlier this month that CBS would be canceling Colbert’s The Late Show, Trump has reveled in his longtime critic’s demise. After formerly […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday shut down speculation that she would be running for Georgia governor in 2026, two months after opting out of a 2026 Senate run. In a Tuesday post on X, Greene criticized unnamed people for speculating that she may be running in the 2026 gubernatorial election. She said she […]
The Senate on Tuesday evening confirmed President Donald Trump’s ranking Justice Department official, Emil Bove, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit despite calls from Democrats to investigate whistleblower allegations against the nominee. Bove, a former federal prosecutor with the Southern District of New York and the DOJ’s principal associate deputy attorney general, was confirmed […]
Republican senators, frustrated by what they see as Democratic delays, are exploring aggressive options to accelerate the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees, including potential rule changes and even recess appointments, according to people familiar with a closed-door meeting Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) isn’t ruling out scrapping part or all of the […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday pressured Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to scrap the “blue slip” tradition and push through his judicial nominees. The president fumed over the Democratic Party’s ability to block his “Highly Qualified Judges and U.S. Attorneys” through the blue slip tradition, in a post on Truth Social. He claimed […]
The United States’s long-standing support for Israel is showing some limits as graphic images and reports of starving and emaciated children dying from hunger in Gaza have shifted public sentiment. In recent days, President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other world leaders have called attention to the lack of food in the war-torn […]
A rare and contentious showdown among Democrats played out in public view on the Senate floor Tuesday as an animated Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) sparred with colleagues over passing bipartisan bills to bolster local police forces. Booker blocked an effort by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to pass a tranche of seven bipartisan law enforcement […]
The Trump administration moved Tuesday to keep Bill Essayli in charge of the Central District of California, extending the tenure of Los Angeles’s top federal prosecutor past his expired interim status by naming him acting United States attorney. Essayli, a former Republican state legislator and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, was initially appointed to […]
President Donald Trump’s recent account of how he broke off his friendship with the late, convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein sent shockwaves Tuesday. Trump told a gaggle of reporters aboard Air Force One that he banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago resort over a dispute about Epstein poaching employees. Trump’s association with Epstein is known, but […]
The Justice Department argued before an appeals court panel on Tuesday that the Trump administration should be allowed to continue with a Biden-era mass parole program for hundreds of thousands of migrants, leaning on a Supreme Court order issued in May as part of the argument. The three-judge panel on the United States Court of […]
