The German parliament is off to a rocky start as Alternative for Germany, or AfD, lawmakers took their seats among rival politicians devoted to keeping the growing party out of the mainstream. Parliamentarians convened the first meeting of the new Bundestag with a speech from The Left party member Gregor Gysi, who as the longest-serving […]
Former Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown launched a nonpartisan organization focused on workers, months after his exit from the Senate. The new think tank, the Dignity of Work Institute, will function as a nonpartisan organization conducting research about workers in the country. The pro-worker organization aims to shine a light on the challenges workers face […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) rebuked a couple of Code Pink protesters interrupting a meeting by the Senate Intelligence Committee, pointing out that the group is “funded by Communist China.” Cotton made his remark shortly after he attempted to ask FBI Director Kash Patel, one of several U.S. security officials testifying before the committee on Tuesday, […]
President Donald Trump has ordered the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which consumed much of his first term, to be declassified and made available to the public. “This was total weaponization. It’s a disgrace, should never happen in this country,” Trump said before signing a presidential memorandum declassifying the information. “But now you’ll [the media] be able […]
President Donald Trump voiced renewed support for his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Tuesday, adding that Waltz does not need to “apologize” for his role in accidentally adding the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat with Cabinet officials planning airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Goldberg’s report, published Monday, ignited immediate calls […]
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration vowed that he would not seek to privatize the program during his confirmation hearing before a key Senate panel on Tuesday. Frank Bisignano, chief executive of financial technology company Fiserv, said he’d “never thought about privatizing” in an exchange with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). “It’s […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said he expects Florida state Sen. Randy Fine, the Republican candidate running in the April 1 special election for national security adviser Mike Waltz‘s congressional seat, to underperform. The Florida governor said it is “almost impossible” for a Republican to lose the district Fine is running for, but said the state […]
Public media giants National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service are to be warned Wednesday that taxpayer funding is likely to be cut off this year, care of conservatives and a president who feel they’ve been taking it on the chin from the liberal outlets. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is holding a budget-cutting […]
While no one has entered the race for the open Michigan Senate seat in the 2026 midterm elections, one Democrat who is considering a run has never served a full term in an office she has held. Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI), who was recently elected to Congress in the 2024 election and is thought […]
A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily paused a sweeping ruling that had dealt a major blow to the Department of Government Efficiency, which a lower court found had likely acted unconstitutionally in attempting to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an administrative stay on U.S. […]
