Tennessee Republican House members are putting a bill that would allow schools to deny enrollment to students based on their legal status on hold as it seeks guidance from the Trump administration. House Majority Leader William Lamberth, the bill’s sponsor, expressed concern that Tennessee could lose approximately $1.1 billion in federal funding for education. There […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to side with parents in a case pitting religious rights against public school curriculum. At the heart of the dispute is Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools’ 2023 decision to eliminate opt-outs for LGBT-related books such as Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, which portrays a same-sex marriage, and Intersection Allies, which explores nonbinary […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has reached his worst-ever favorability rating in two decades of polling by Siena College, fueled by the fallout among Democrats over his handling of President Donald Trump. In the same survey released Tuesday, possible 2028 primary challenger Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) received her highest-ever favorability rating from the popular political polling institution. Schumer […]
Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed on Monday that he is open to possibly starting direct negotiations with Ukraine to end the war that’s been going on for more than three years. The Russian leader has dangled the possibility of ending the war, as the Trump administration wants, but has continued attacks in Ukraine, including on […]
The Trump administration sent stop work orders to three University of Maine federal grant-funded projects researching offshore wind. The Department of Energy ordered the University of Maine to end its offshore wind research projects, which were funded through a $12.6 million grant awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy, an agency in the Energy Department […]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) doubled down on her interaction with an apparent constituent, promising she will continue to “fight back” against critics. Mace claimed to be the target of three confrontations from strangers in public this past week alone. The representative claimed that she only has “armed security guards” when she’s at events in her […]
Actor Rainn Wilson challenged MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle’s idea that a “concerted effort” is responsible for the nation’s declining faith in legacy media. “Forty percent of Americans don’t trust mainstream media. Why is that?” Wilson, best known for his portrayal of Dwight Schrute on The Office, asked Ruhle on the latest episode of the Soul Boom […]
The first photos of the deceased Pope Francis were published by the Vatican as funeral rites are underway. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, presided over the first ritual, known as the “rite of the ascertainment of death and deposition in the coffin.” The ceremony took place Monday evening at a […]
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich could not help but laugh at the Democratic Party’s frequent resistance against President Donald Trump, suggesting the president has “a knack” for entrapping his political opponents. Gingrich was perplexed by Democratic lawmakers, specifically Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), going “off the deep end” in seeking to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the […]
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) demanded a federal investigation into a New York school district over its “blatant rejection” of President Donald Trump’s executive order on protecting girls and women’s sports. The “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order offered a new interpretation of Title IX to clarify it only applied to biological sex. This […]
