A battle to become the next ranking member of the powerful Oversight Committee has quickly become another test of whether House Democrats should choose their leaders by seniority or listen to younger members agitating for generational change. Four candidates — Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) — […]
The GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act has moved to the Senate to be considered for debate and possible revision. While President Donald Trump’s tax and spending plan passed in the House, different rules in the Senate may end up stripping out certain proposals. The Senate has a rule for so-called reconciliation bills known as […]
Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) vetoed a bill on Tuesday that would have prohibited the Chinese government from owning real estate in Arizona. Arizona Senate Bill 1109 stipulated that the “People’s Republic of China may not purchase, own, acquire by grant or devise or have a substantial interest in real property in this state.” The law […]
A range of Democratic and progressive groups are all working on the same problem — how to win back working-class voters. For the Democratic Party, the loss of blue collar support since President Donald Trump entered the political arena represents a crisis that threatens its prospects for a generation. But how to fix it is a […]
EXCLUSIVE – A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers are pressing for more price transparency for prescription drugs, introducing a bill on Thursday that would require pharmaceutical companies to disclose their cost in all direct-to-consumer advertising. The Drug-Price Transparency for Consumers Act of 2025, sponsored by Reps. Dave Taylor (R-OH) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), would cover […]
House Republicans are already teasing the idea of a second budget bill to advance President Donald Trump‘s agenda, even as the Senate has yet to act on his most sweeping priorities. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has offered few details of what might be contained in the package, but when asked by the Washington Examiner he […]
President Donald Trump is asserting far greater control over the judicial nomination process in his second term, determined not to repeat what he views as past missteps in selecting judges who later bucked his agenda. According to senior aides and sources familiar with the internal deliberations, Trump is personally directing a streamlined, loyalty-first vetting process […]
The U.S. vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that called for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.” The resolution was cosponsored by the U.N.’s E10, a group of ten non-permanent members of the Security Council. Fourteen countries voted to support it, with the U.S. being the only country to vote against […]
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced attacks from all fronts at the first New York City Democratic primary debate. The nine candidates — Cuomo, former Assemblymember Michael Blake, City Comptroller Brad Lander, state Sens. Zellnor Myrie and Jessica Ramos, former City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Assemblymember and socialist Zohran Mamdani, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, […]
Two Chinese nationals accused of smuggling a dangerous fungus into the United States in a possible act of “agroterrorism” began doing so in 2022, according to an affidavit. U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon Jr. charged Chinese citizens and Michigan University researchers Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the U.S., false […]
