Loudoun County Public Schools reportedly threatened to shut down the public comment period at a heated school board meeting Tuesday night when hundreds of parents pushed back against the school district’s Title IX investigation into three boys who were secretly recorded in a school locker room by a transgender student. That video, which depicts the […]
Republican budget hawks faced painful calculations Wednesday as the House inched toward advancing President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that would saddle more generations with trillions of dollars in debt. A fresh analysis from the Congressional Budget Office projected the proposal would pile on some $3 trillion over the next decade to the national debt, […]
UnitedHealth Group was found in a report released Wednesday by the Guardian to have placed its workers in nursing homes and then paid them bonuses to reduce hospital transfers. After the report was released, the stock fell around 5.78%, or $14 billion, as of Wednesday afternoon. At least one patient now lives with permanent brain […]
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to halt lower courts’ demands for depositions and discovery in a legal battle over Freedom of Information Requests for the Department of Government Efficiency. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to pause a pair of orders […]
A bill that would stop noncitizens from voting in Washington, D.C., elections passed through the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, advancing closer to a floor vote. The bill, H.R.884, would prohibit noncitizens from voting in district elections and repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022, which allows noncitizen district residents to vote […]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed a resolution Wednesday to expel a House Democrat charged with assault of federal officers by the Department of Justice. The expulsion resolution came after Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was charged by a federal prosecutor for a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in New Jersey. A trespassing […]
A New Jersey judge dismissed the charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, harshly rebuking interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba over his arrest. U.S. Magistrate Judge André M. Espinosa dropped the charges against Baraka on Wednesday, following his May 9 arrest due to a scuffle between him and three House Democrats and law enforcement […]
Democrat Sam Sutton won a special election in New York for state Senate in a district President Donald Trump won by a vast margin in the 2024 election. Sutton defeated Republican Nachman Caller, an attorney who previously ran for state Assembly. He beat Caller 67.6% to 32.4%. Sutton’s win retains the seat for the Democrats. […]
Elon Musk appeared to cast an unfriendly gaze at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during President Donald Trump’s meeting with the foreign leader on Wednesday. The top adviser to Trump, who has grown less involved with the administration lately but showed up for Trump’s chat with Ramaphosa, stood behind a couch with Vice President JD […]
California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa accused former Vice President Kamala Harris, one of his possible competitors in the governor’s race, of being involved in a “systematic cover-up” to conceal former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline from the public eye. Villaraigosa is running for governor during the 2026 elections after spending decades building political capital […]
