The Supreme Court struck down an executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment on Tuesday, handing President Donald Trump another major loss at the high court this term. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down Trump’s executive order, with five of those justices also defining birthright citizenship under the Constitution […]
The Supreme Court further loosened federal campaign finance laws on Tuesday, striking down a limit on coordinated spending between political parties and candidates as a violation of a party’s free speech rights. The justices sided with the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s arguments that the coordinated expenditure limits between parties and candidates violated the First Amendment, […]
The Supreme Court upheld a pair of state laws Tuesday barring biological men from participating in women’s sports, in a key ruling set to have wide ramifications for transgender issues across the country. The high court issued a 6-3 ruling in both cases over state laws barring biological men from women’s sports, finding the state […]
The House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets will hold a hearing on the CIA’s MKULTRA experiments on Tuesday at 10 a.m. The hearing will examine the history and timeline of the CIA’s MKULTRA project, which was a human experimentation program run during the Cold War from 1953 to 1973 to develop mind-control […]
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is testifying before a House appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday. The congressional hearing will focus on the Trump administration’s federal spending and budget priorities. TRUMP RELEASES BUDGET PLAN TO BOOST PENTAGON AND CUT DOMESTIC SPENDING A slate of administration officials has been providing testimony since the […]
A bus crash on the Long Island Expressway in New York on Monday night killed two people and left 20 people injured, officials said. The coach crashed just before midnight, when the westbound bus ran into two vehicles before colliding with the median, causing the bus to flip and strike two additional vehicles. The incident […]
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Monday from blocking federal funding for the Gateway Tunnel project, ruling that its move to do so last year was arbitrary and capricious. U.S. District Court Judge Jeannette Vargas’s decision surrounds the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel plan to build two new rail tunnels underneath the Hudson River […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he is confident a bipartisan housing package will become law even if President Donald Trump never signs it, arguing the White House and congressional Republicans are pursuing parallel tracks to advance the president’s election priorities. In an interview with USA Today published Monday, Johnson said he met with Trump […]
A spate of health scares in Washington has raised a central question about public office: How transparent do elected officials need to be with their constituents? Recent medical episodes involving lawmakers have thrust the issue of health disclosure into the spotlight, simultaneously sparking a debate about personal privacy and the public’s right to know. Rep. […]
Dozens of Ukrainian drones rattled Russia’s Moscow region overnight Monday into Tuesday morning, delivering another key military blow to Russia’s capital city. It was the latest drone strike orchestrated by Ukraine, which has inflicted significant damage on Russia in recent weeks, hitting the capital city on multiple occasions, disrupting communication networks and energy infrastructure. Tuesday’s […]
