Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) politicized the mass shooting at Florida State University after the suspect was rumored to have pro-Trump leanings. The alleged gunman, 20-year-old FSU student Phoenix Ikner, killed two and wounded six during a shooting on Thursday. In comments about protesters demonstrating against President Donald Trump, he allegedly said, “These people are usually […]
Former Rep. Barbara Lee, a progressive politician with more than 30 years of service under her belt, is projected to win Oakland, California’s special mayoral election. Lee and her more centrist challenger, Loren Taylor, were the top two challengers in a crowded field of nine jockeying to lead the struggling Bay Area city. Lee will […]
President Donald Trump argued Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s tattoos prove he is a MS-13 gang member who should not be allowed back into the United States. On Friday evening, Trump highlighted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand that appeared to contain “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles. MS-13 is a Salvadoran-native gang that the U.S. has designated a […]
Immigration attorneys are scrambling to seek emergency relief from a federal court in Texas after learning that Venezuelan migrants detained there received notices that they are subject to President Donald Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation issued last month. Two migrants say in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union that they and others […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) denied a request from two House Democrats to go on a congressional trip to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an imprisoned Salvadoran national mistakenly deported by the Trump administration. In a letter shared with the Washington Examiner, Comer rejected a request by Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Maxwell Frost […]
A federal judge has denied the Associated Press‘s request that he further direct the White House to restore its access to President Donald Trump and certain spaces. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden initially handed the AP a victory earlier this month. He issued an injunction stating the White House was not allowed to limit access […]
President Donald Trump announced a new rule Friday reclassifying thousands of career government employees as “at-will,” which would make it significantly easier to fire them. The rule stems from a Day One executive order that directed the Office of Personnel Management to issue new “civil service regulations” for all career government employees. Trump took similar […]
A judge froze the Trump administration’s plan to fire a majority of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson stopped the administration’s effort, the latest development in a legal seesaw battle that has seen plans to dismantle or cut back the CFPB started and stopped several times. Last week, […]
The White House completely remodeled its webpage on COVID-19 to reflect its stance that the virus originated from a lab in China. The website states that the “Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” a scientific paper published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, was used by public health officials to “discredit the lab theory.” The White House […]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld an unusual veto by Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) where he changed language in a bill to secure education funding for 400 years. In July 2023, Evers vetoed select words, numbers, and hyphens in the state budget to extend an increase in spending per student by $325 meant for the 2023-2024 […]
