Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) accused the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden of secretly subpoenaing phone records tied to sitting members of Congress during a politically sensitive Jan. 6, 2021, investigation, saying the effort bypassed constitutional safeguards and blocked lawmakers from asserting their rights. Grassley made the remarks at a two-hour hearing on Tuesday […]
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) likened Islamic religious practices to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. The Republican-convened hearing, “Sharia-Free America,” was called to examine what GOP lawmakers described as efforts to impose sharia, the Islamic moral and legal code derived from the Quran, in U.S. communities. “That sounds like […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) won’t commit to more short-term funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Republicans seek more time to strike a deal on immigration enforcement. “There’s no reason we can’t get this done by Thursday,” Schumer said in a Tuesday afternoon press conference, giving Republicans two more legislative days to […]
Former Rep. Tom Malinowski vowed Tuesday to oppose any candidate backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee following his defeat in the Democratic primary in New Jersey‘s 11th Congressional District. Malinowski conceded the congressional special election primary to progressive activist Analilia Mejia on Tuesday after Mejia notched 889 votes more than Malinowski in her […]
The Republican National Committee urged the Supreme Court this week to strike down laws that allow states to count late-arriving mail-in ballots, ahead of the midterm election later this year. The Supreme Court will hear the case Watson v. RNC on March 23, in which Mississippi’s law allowing mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to […]
The Chinese Communist Party escalated its saber-rattling against Taiwan, announcing it will be ramping up influence operations. People’s Political Consultative Conference Chairman Wang Huning, the fourth-highest ranking member of the CCP, told allies at the Taiwan Work Conference in Beijing that they will need to “firmly support the patriotic pro-unification forces on the island,” according […]
Lawmakers from both parties signaled deep skepticism Tuesday toward a proposed merger between Nexstar Media Group and Tegna, warning that the deal could concentrate unprecedented power over local TV news even as supporters argue broadcasters need scale to survive in a digital marketplace dominated by Big Tech. At a heated Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that President Donald Trump told Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that the United States should “own at least half” of the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday that he would block the opening of the project, a half-mile-long cable-stayed bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan, […]
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is once again putting full confidence behind his company’s hostile takeover bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery by sweetening the deal with what he calls “additional benefits.” The added guarantees announced on Tuesday include a “ticking fee” that pays Warner Bros. shareholders 25 cents per share if Paramount’s deal doesn’t […]
President Donald Trump’s administration is defending Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick against bipartisan calls for the Cabinet secretary to resign due to his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The latest trove of Epstein files released by the Justice Department showed that Lutnick planned to visit Epstein’s island in the U.S. Virgin Islands in December 2012 after claiming […]
