The FBI will help lawmakers locate the “runaway” Texas Democrats who fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum needed to move forward in their redistricting fight, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said Thursday. Involving the FBI in apprehending the lawmakers could boost hopes of getting them back into the state to reestablish a quorum and […]
The Army estimated the restoration of a Confederate statue in Arlington National Cemetery that was removed in 2023 will cost $10 million, an official said Wednesday. The official told the Associated Press that the statue, called the Reconciliation Monument, will feature panels of information about its history. However, the statue is plagued by past controversy. […]
The Democratic National Committee will spend $1.5 million in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election on behalf of Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s campaign. The investment marks one of the largest in a largely Democratic state. The money will go to the New Jersey Coordinated Campaign, which will help hire regional directors and organizers, fund voter outreach efforts, and […]
Former White House senior adviser Anita Dunn arrived Thursday morning on Capitol Hill for a closed-door interview with House Oversight Committee investigators, as part of the panel’s intensifying inquiry into whether top aides worked to conceal signs of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline. Dunn declined to answer reporters’ questions as she arrived at the Rayburn House Office Building and walked […]
President Donald Trump is calling for the CEO of Intel, a semiconductor manufacturer, to resign after Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) questioned his ties to China. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan joined the company as its chief executive in March of this year. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately,” Trump wrote on […]
President Donald Trump said he instructed the Department of Commerce to “immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS.” He said this will be “based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” and claimed that “People who are in our […]
A group of Republican state lawmakers from Midwestern states filed a complaint over smoke from Canadian wildfires. Republican state Reps. Austin Harris of Iowa, Elliott Engen of Minnesota, Calvin Callahan of Wisconsin, and state Sen. Clare Cory of North Dakota signed the letter. The Upper Midwest and parts of the Northeast have been experiencing poor […]
Bureaucrats at the National Endowment for the Humanities cut checks to fund various liberal research projects as the Trump administration signaled its intention to cut diversity, equity, and inclusion-related grant spending, a Washington Examiner review of public records has found. Many of the grant projects that NEH staffers silently funded weren’t slated to begin until […]
TRUMP: ‘WE COULD BE ENDING … THE END OF THAT ROAD’: Even before he was elected president, Donald Trump nurtured a dream of getting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a room, knocking their heads together, and using his art of the deal wizardry to compel a peace deal. Now, Putin […]
A set of stiff tariffs against nearly 70 countries went into effect Thursday just after midnight, bringing the Trump administration one step closer to finalizing its “Liberation Day” agenda. United States trading partners will face duties ranging from 10% to 41%, part of a recalculation of the rates Trump laid down in his original April […]
