The House passed the final four of the 12 necessary government funding bills on Thursday, setting the stage for a marathon vote in the Senate as a government shutdown looms in eight days. The chamber voted 220-207 to pass the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill and 341-88 for three other appropriations bills covering the […]
UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley on Thursday paid tribute to his predecessor, Brian Thompson, who was assassinated in December 2024. During a hearing involving several major healthcare company CEOs, Rep. Jacob Auchincloss (D-MA) took a moment to ask Hemsley about Thompson’s character, giving him the floor to pay a brief tribute. Hemsley thanked him for […]
Former special counsel Jack Smith repeatedly sidestepped pointed questions about the credibility of January 6 committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson, despite previously acknowledging her most explosive claims amounted to secondhand hearsay. The issue surfaced during an exchange with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) during Smith’s nearly five hours of public testimony. Jordan pressed Smith […]
Paris Hilton joined House members on Capitol Hill on Thursday to advocate Senate-passed, bipartisan legislation aimed at allowing victims to take civil action against fake, artificial intelligence pornography. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Laurel Lee (R-FL) held a bipartisan press conference with Hilton on Thursday, urging House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the bill […]
The Trump administration laid out its ambitious plan for Gaza reconstruction through the newly created “Board of Peace” on Thursday, but the long-term goals unveiled still depend on the successful demilitarization of Hamas. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and one of the lead U.S. negotiators in this venture, said during the signing ceremony at the […]
The Trump administration ended all National Institutes of Health funding support for research involving aborted human fetal tissue. The NIH announced a new policy on Thursday that bars research relying on taxpayer-funded grants, contracts, awards, and agreements from involving fetal tissue from elective abortions. The announced policy, effective immediately, comes one day before the March […]
President Donald Trump has announced the United States is looking to host World Expo 2035 in Florida, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio appointed to lead the effort. “The Great State of Florida has expressed strong interest in hosting the Expo in Miami, which I fully support. Miami Expo 2035 can be the next big […]
MINNEAPOLIS — After weeks of clashes, at times violent and deadly, Vice President JD Vance had a message for local lawmakers in the North Star State: cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop the chaos. “We can do a good job of enforcing our immigration laws without the chaos, but it actually requires the […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to temporarily hold off on bringing the final four government funding bills up for a final passage until a lone Texas Republican could return to the Capitol. Hunt, who makes a $175,000 a year representing the people of Texas’s 38th congressional district, has missed votes all week and most of […]
The conservative movement wants to see the White House walk back its middle ground approach to abortion access, even as President Donald Trump handed the movement new policy victories ahead of the March for Life. Federal funding from the National Institutes of Health will no longer go toward research or grants that use aborted fetal […]
