A constitutional fight over spending complicates GOP unity on Capitol Hill as President Donald Trump holds back billions in funding appropriated by Congress. The Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog, has repeatedly ruled that canceled or delayed funding for biomedical research, K-12 education, and more is illegal and runs afoul of the Impoundment Control Act, […]
Indiana is the newest state to step up to help the Trump administration in its massive undertaking of carrying out the nation’s “largest-ever” deportation operation. The state emerged in early August with formal plans to have state troopers go after illegal immigrants, as well as shifting part of a state correctional facility to be used […]
A Texas judge blocked former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke from supporting Democratic Texas lawmakers who fled the state to deprive Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) of his needed quorum to pass a redistricting plan. On Friday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued O’Rourke and his political group, Powered by People, alleging they engaged in […]
The man suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar was arrested after a weeklong manhunt. Michael Paul Brown, 45, opened fire at an Anaconda bar last Friday, killing a bartender and three customers, identified by officials as Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64; Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, […]
California Democrats are moving full steam ahead on their efforts to counter Texas’s mid-decade redistricting plan despite Lone Star State Republicans escalating their crackdown on absent state Democrats who fled the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), along with congressional and state leaders from California, held a press conference […]
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to make the United States government the defendant in writer E. Jean Carroll’s successful defamation lawsuit against him, explaining the request came “simply too late.” In a 23-page opinion, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals explained why it had swiftly denied Trump’s June motion to substitute the United […]
An active shooter was reported at Emory University’s Atlanta campus in Georgia on Friday. Emory University’s Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response sent a message warning of an active shooter just after 5:30 p.m. Eastern time. “RUN, HIDE, FIGHT. Avoid the area. Shelter in place,” the alert said, identifying the shooter as near the local […]
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it would no longer upload research to a database related to greenhouse gas emissions, this move comes a month after its creator was suspended for criticizing the Trump administration. The database is one of the most viewed in the government, and will now be housed at Stanford University as […]
President Donald Trump announced that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Aug. 15. WHAT THE ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN DEAL MEANS FOR TRUMP, WORLD PEACE, AND THE ECONOMY “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next […]
The Smithsonian Institution has restored information on the impeachments of President Donald Trump to a display in its American history museum after previously removing it as part of an internal content review for “political or partisan influence.” “The National Museum of American History has completed its update to the Impeachment case within ‘The American Presidency: […]
