Democratic Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow’s campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat could face fallout over social media posts she made years ago that resurfaced on Wednesday. McMorrow is one of three Democratic candidates competing to replace outgoing Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI). Though she has positioned herself as a centrist as she campaigns against […]
War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are testifying on Capitol Hill about the Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request on Wednesday. The House Armed Services Committee, led by Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL), is presiding over the congressional testimony. PENTAGON ASKS CONGRESS TO CODIFY ‘DEPARTMENT OF WAR’ NAME […]
A Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking voter rolls from Arizona, marking the administration’s latest loss in court over requests for state-level voter data. U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich issued an order on Tuesday to dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning the same lawsuit is prevented from being refiled. The ruling handed […]
A newly proposed congressional map from Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) would eliminate several districts held by pro-Israel Democrats, prompting concern among Jewish leaders that the party could lose key voices shaping its stance on Israel and antisemitism. The far-reaching redistricting plan would effectively dismantle two South Florida districts represented by some of Congress’s most prominent […]
The national average price for regular gas kept soaring on Wednesday, rising to a new yearly high of $4.229 per gallon, according to AAA. This is a greater-than-5-cent-per-gallon increase from Tuesday and more than 20 cents per gallon more expensive than just a week ago. Wednesday’s new yearly high gas price came just a week […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a potential floor revolt Wednesday that could derail three major GOP priorities and bring the House to a standstill. The House Rules Committee advanced a procedural measure on Tuesday to tee up floor consideration of three separate bills: an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance […]
The Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases in which the Trump administration is trying to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria on Wednesday, marking the latest major test to the administration’s immigration agenda at the high court. The justices will hear oral arguments in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and […]
East Asian countries have long balanced U.S. and Chinese influence, but the two countries’ intensifying rivalry is increasingly pushing them to choose a side. China’s explosive economic growth over the past few decades has threatened the United States’s long-standing role as the dominant power in East Asia, with China now outcompeting the U.S. in trade […]
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was a no-show at a Minnesota House oversight hearing on Tuesday about how his administration is actively combating fraud in the state’s taxpayer-funded childcare services, notably declining to testify on the same day that the FBI raided nearly two dozen facilities in Minneapolis, including daycares, suspected of stealing federal public assistance […]
The SAVE America Act has silently been sidelined in the Senate after the GOP-led chamber turned to what it considers more pressing matters related to immigration enforcement and the nation’s foreign spy powers. Benching the federal voter ID and election bill, a procedural move that removed the proposal from official pending business, was required to […]
