House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) $95 billion foreign aid bill hits its final stage on Saturday and will also test whether bipartisan could cost him his job. After a rule vote to bring the Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and humanitarian support bill to the floor passed with predominantly Democratic votes on Friday, hard-line House Republicans were […]
On April 22, 1971, former President Richard Nixon planted a tree at the White House, commemorating the one-year anniversary of Earth Day. Nixon was one of America’s “greenest” presidents, signing 14 pieces of environmental legislation into law while he was in office. He signed laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air […]
U.S. political “dysfunction” is hampering the country’s options to exploit Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vulnerabilities, according to the CIA chief. “Even with all its ambition, even with all its expanding capabilities, and a really serious military modernization program, [China]’s not 10 feet tall,” CIA director Bill Burns said this week at the George W. Bush […]
The Senate reauthorized a controversial FISA spying program on Friday night in the face of days of hardened opposition, casting a flurry of votes in the hours before the law expired. A bipartisan group of privacy hawks had refused to fast-track the legislation, which renews Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but they […]
The Senate reached a deal to reauthorize a controversial FISA spying program on Friday night despite days of hardened opposition, teeing up a series of votes hours before the law expires. A bipartisan group of privacy hawks had refused to fast-track the legislation, which renews Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but they […]
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) took to X to show their solidarity with Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) daughter, Isra Hirsi, following her participation in a pro-Palestinian protest at Barnard College. Hirsi announced on X that she was one of three students suspended “for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.” “From […]
Trump Media & Technology Group has raised concerns that its stock, trading under the ticker DJT, may be a target of “potential market manipulation” due to naked short-selling activity. “Reports indicate that, as of April 3, 2024, DJT was ‘by far’ ‘the most expensive U.S. stock to short,’ meaning that brokers have a significant financial […]
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee announced plans to launch an “election integrity” program, intending to recruit 100,000 volunteers and attorneys who will work to preserve “the sanctity” of November’s election in a press release on Friday. In addition to recruiting poll watchers and lawyers, the press release even mentions hiring poll workers. “Having […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) continued to call for Hamas to release its hostages, six months after operatives kidnapped them from southern Israel. Since the Oct. 7 attack, Fetterman has displayed the photos of all the hostages Hamas took on his Senate office walls. The terrorist organization is holding over 100 hostages, according to Israel Defense Forces, though […]
Prosecutors made the unusual decision this week to remain almost entirely mum about the order in which they planned to call their first witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York. Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor working on behalf of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, said Friday evening he would let Trump’s […]
