House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced the first congressional hearing into the Minnesota fraud scandal and invited Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison to participate at a later date. The first hearing, scheduled for Jan. 7, will include testimony from state Reps. Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson, and Marion Rarick, all of whom are […]
President Donald Trump has made history again, this time for something he didn’t do: fill the swamp with new regulations. In keeping his campaign promise to kill 10 Biden-Obama era federal regulations for every new one his administration proposed, the president’s team offered up the fewest rules since record-keeping began in the 1970s. And in […]
A Virginia man has been remanded to U.S. Marshall Service custody over his alleged threat to kill the interim executive director of the Kennedy Center, Richard Grenell. Scott Allen Bolger, 33, of McLean, Virginia, was charged with a criminal complaint for allegedly sending interstate threats and making false statements. Grenell confirmed he was the target […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) suggested President Donald Trump vetoed a bipartisan bill to make building a water pipeline in Colorado easier as “political retaliation” for forcing a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump vetoed the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, which was sponsored by Boebert, Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO), and Colorado’s two […]
A new California law, set to take effect on Thursday, will require DoorDash, Uber Eats, and other food delivery apps to start providing full cash refunds to users instead of partial credits in the new year. The bill marks a huge win for customers who have expressed frustration over poor delivery service, resulting in missing […]
Mali and Burkina Faso have imposed a reciprocal travel ban on visitors from the United States in response to President Donald Trump’s travel restrictions on their nationals to the U.S. Trump imposed full travel restrictions and entry limitations on Mali and Burkina Faso in mid-December, including the two African countries as part of five new […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump wants to denaturalize members of Minnesota’s Somali community involved in yearslong, billion-dollar fraud schemes. The scandal, which has already produced dozens of federal indictments in recent weeks, has proven a political godsend for the Trump administration, which is hoping to turn the […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to hit the campaign trail next year, boosting down-ballot Democrats as she eyes another run for the party’s presidential nomination in 2028. If Harris decides a third time will be the charm, she will have a lot more than 107 days — the length of her stay on […]
Former Republican Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl has been diagnosed with dementia, he announced in a statement on Tuesday. The longtime public servant completed four full terms in the U.S. House from 1987 to 1995 and three full terms in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2013. He then briefly returned to the upper chamber in […]
The House will return on Jan. 6, and with it, some 10% of lawmakers will start their final year in the lower chamber, either retiring or seeking higher office in the 2026 midterm elections. The lower chamber will get its first departure on Jan. 5. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced in November that she […]
