The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted President Donald Trump a victory late Thursday night regarding National Guard troop deployment in California. The Appeals Court blocked a federal judge’s order from earlier in the day that required the president to cede control of the National Guard in Los Angeles, California, to Gov. Gavin Newsom. Trump […]
In the final audition to voters before voting begins in the New York City Democratic primary for mayor, almost everyone took turns taking shots at front-runner former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The debate, which was expected to be contentious in a race growing increasingly close between Cuomo and socialist state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, saw the former […]
Three blue state governors were on defense for hours on Thursday during a marathon House Oversight Committee hearing where Republicans accused them of reckless immigration policies in their states. Govs. Tim Walz (D-MN), JB Pritzker (D-IL), and Kathy Hochul (D-NY) testified at the high-profile hearing that ran from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a […]
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she no longer recognizes Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after a heated incident that saw Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) detained after he interrupted the secretary’s press conference Thursday. Bass and Noem entered the House together in 2011 and served together until Noem left Congress to become the governor of […]
The nation’s capital saw several partisan collisions on Thursday as party divides seemed to stretch Republicans and Democrats to a breaking point. While across-the-aisle bickering is not unusual in the Capitol, Thursday’s scrums, which began with testy hearings involving Democratic governors and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, intensified with Sen. Alex Padilla’s (D-CA) detainment after interrupting […]
Israel conducted a military operation targeting Iran’s nuclear program on Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump cautioned Israel against one. Details of the damage Israel inflicted are still being assessed, and Israeli leaders warned their own population immediately after the strike that they could be on the receiving end of a retaliatory attack. Trump warned […]
A federal judge appeared skeptical on Thursday of the Justice Department‘s argument that President Donald Trump lawfully federalized the California National Guard when he deployed it to Los Angeles over the weekend amid violent protests over immigration raids. Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, hearing arguments in […]
The House voted Thursday to cut $9.4 billion from spending previously appropriated by Congress, the first attempt at codifying cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency. The bill passed by Republicans, H.R. 4, is a “rescissions” package, meaning that it rescinds spending that was approved by Congress. The cuts were proposed by the Trump […]
A pair of New York House members got into a screaming match on the House floor Thursday during votes. Rep. John Mannion (D-NY) yelled at Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) to get out of the Democratic side of the House floor after tensions ran high following Sen. Alex Padilla’s (D-CA) removal from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi […]
Members of the Republican Congressional Hispanic Conference are urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus its arrests of illegal immigrants on those who have committed crimes. CHC Chairman Tony Gonzales (R-TX) led five other House Republicans in a letter to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons asking the agency to “give absolute priority to every violent […]
