Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said Wednesday that the Trump administration’s national security mishap over Signal represents a pattern of “sloppiness.” “If this was a one-off — if this was ‘Oh my gosh, we’re rookies. We didn’t understand how to add people to a chat line,’ — but this is a history or pattern of sloppiness,” […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) largely brushed off Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s (D-TX) new nickname for him, arguing this is just “another disaster” for the Democratic Party following the 2024 election. Crockett deemed Abbott, 67, “Governor Hot Wheels” at a recent Human Rights Campaign banquet, drawing ire on social media as Abbott has used a wheelchair ever […]
Department of Justice attorneys assured a judge on Tuesday that the Trump administration complied with his order to halt the use of the Alien Enemies Act but refused to answer all of the judge’s questions about the matter after invoking the state secrets privilege. The attorneys said in a court filing that the administration abided […]
Texas and New Mexico have seen an increase in vaccinations for measles since its outbreak in the states. Since late January, Texas has reported 327 measles cases, including 40 hospitalizations. One unvaccinated school-aged child has died because of measles, as the Texas Department of State Health Services reported the child did not have preexisting conditions. […]
The House Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee is holding a hearing with PBS and NPR at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. The hearing featuring NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger comes after DOGE subcommittee chairwoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called on the two programming networks, which receive federal funding, to testify about […]
The Republican National Committee made public record requests surrounding the voter rolls of 48 states and Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump has long suggested that election fraud played a role in his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. Now, the RNC is seeking to learn how each state is maintaining voter registration lists. The RNC […]
Public broadcasting executives, facing the biggest threat yet to taxpayer funding, today plan to argue that cutting federal support will rob Americans of vital “lifesaving” programming. In a desperate bid to defeat efforts to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Public Radio, and Public Broadcasting Service, the executives appearing before the House DOGE subcommittee […]
Democrats won a significant upset victory in a Republican-leaning state Senate race in Pennsylvania, adding to recent GOP special election woes. Democrat James Malone narrowly defeated Republican Josh Parsons by less than 1 percentage point in the race for state Senate District 36 on Tuesday, narrowing the GOP’s majority in the chamber to a 27-23 […]
Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman reversed a ban on the death penalty set by his predecessor, George Gascón. Hochman announced Tuesday that he was rescinding Gascón’s “extreme and categorical policy forbidding prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in any case,” effective immediately. “I remain unwaveringly committed to the comprehensive and thorough evaluation of […]
President Donald Trump has long argued he is more competent than his political opponents, while they, in turn, contend he is more chaotic, a debate likely to continue as his national security team’s communications in a Signal group chat come under scrutiny. This has been true since the early days of the 2016 Republican presidential […]
