Authorities have ruled out a connection between the Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck explosion and the New Orleans pick up truck attack on New Year’s Eve, which killed at least 15. The Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion outside of a Trump International Hotel occurred just hours after the attack in New Orleans. “Why don’t we consider what happened […]
The House passed its rules package for the 119th Congress on Friday, approving a change that makes it more difficult to oust the speaker and reserving that right for the majority party alone. The rules package, which passed in a 215-209 vote, requires nine members of the majority party to co-sponsor a motion to vacate […]
By the time the first roll call vote ended to elect the next speaker of the House, it appeared that Mike Johnson (R-LA) was in trouble. Three Republicans voted against him, placing him below the majority threshold needed to secure the gavel. But after a series of conversations with two key holdouts, Reps. Ralph Norman […]
The Department of Transportation fined JetBlue Airways $2 million for “operating multiple chronically delayed flights,” the first time an airline has been penalized for such a thing. The DOT investigation uncovered four flights that were chronically delayed between June 2022 and November 2023 for at least five straight months. There were a total of 395 […]
The prime minister of Greenland called on the country to strive for greater independence from its mother country, Denmark, in a New Year’s address delivered this week, in light of the controversy surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s calls for the U.S. to purchase the island. Prime Minister Múte Egede said in the annual speech that Greenland must take greater control […]
The hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus sent a warning to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after he narrowly avoided being voted down by some caucus members from retaining the gavel Friday. The letter, signed by 11 members and including Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Chip Roy (R-TX), who did not originally vote for Johnson, said […]
Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) took experts by surprise with his initial vote for Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) instead of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) for the 119th Congress’s speaker of the House. Though many, such as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), were expected to rebel against the Trump-endorsed leader, Self had not […]
Officials in New Orleans, Louisiana, have been responding to questions on whether measures could have been taken to prevent an act of terrorism that killed 14 people and injured 35 on New Year’s Day. According to a New York Times report, city officials were warned in 2019 that Bourbon Street, a historic street in the […]
What a difference President-elect Donald Trump makes. Congressional conservatives don’t have fewer reservations about House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) than they did when he was first elected. If anything, they have more. But the handful of conservative dissidents still had no realistic path to the speakership themselves. They had no viable alternative, which is how […]
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) became the longest-serving black senator on Friday when he was sworn into the 119th Congress. The previous longest-serving black senator was former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, who served two full terms from 1967 to 1979. “As we begin the 119th Congress, Senate Republicans have high enthusiasm and are focused on delivering […]
