President Donald Trump didn’t directly answer Wednesday when asked whether the war in Iran will conclude before the war in Ukraine comes to a close. The president fielded questions from reporters on the topic during an Oval Office event with astronauts from the recent Artemis II mission. In the past, Trump has frequently suggested that […]
Republican officials in several red states are calling on their state legislatures to redistrict their states in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to curb race-based redistricting in Louisiana. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Wednesday that the drawing of Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District, which is a majority-minority district in line with Section 2 […]
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson lead an intense round of questioning toward Solicitor General D. John Sauer over President Donald Trump’s remarks about Haiti, during oral arguments Wednesday in a case over the president’s bid to end Temporary Protected Status for the country. The Supreme Court heard arguments in the consolidated case Mullin […]
Two suspects were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly assaulting Turning Point USA reporter Savannah Hernandez at a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis. Hernandez was reporting on an anti-ICE protest outside the Whipple Federal Building on April 11 when she was surrounded by protesters. Videos of the incident show Hernandez […]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) used her time during War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hearing before the House armed services committee to accuse Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) of stolen valor. While Hegseth’s hearing was characterized by continued sparring with Democratic lawmakers over the war in Iran and the military budget, Mace used her five minutes to take […]
The Supreme Court appeared ready to give the Trump administration considerable deference in its decision to end Temporary Protected Status for people from various countries, likely spelling doom for lawsuits hoping to block the administration’s purge of TPS designations. The justices heard arguments in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Moit, where they were asked […]
Dozens of national security experts have submitted a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to directly address religious persecution in China during his upcoming summit in Beijing. The letter, drafted by the Vandenberg Coalition and submitted to Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday, encouraged Trump to confront the “significant amount of […]
The Florida state House on Wednesday advanced a new congressional map proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), giving Republicans four more seats they’ll likely win over Democrats. The redistricting bill seeks to give Republicans a 24-4 advantage in the state, which is now represented in the U.S. House by 20 Republicans and seven Democrats. One […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) successfully wrangled his conference to support a procedural rule to allow three major pieces of legislation to be considered on the House floor. The House voted 216-210 to tee up votes on an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the farm bill, and a party-line budget resolution to […]
President Donald Trump is hosting the four astronauts from NASA’s Artemis II mission at the White House, nearly three weeks after the crew’s landing from its lunar flyby of the moon. The Artemis II crew: Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian […]
