President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East and son-in-law met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to presumably discuss the next stages of the Gaza ceasefire as the first stage wanes. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Netanyahu in Jerusalem, the prime minister’s office said in a statement accompanied by […]
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in the case of a Rastafarian man who brought charges against a Louisiana prison for shaving his dreadlocks, accusing correction center officials of encroaching on his religious freedoms. Damon Landor sued the Louisiana Department of Corrections after prison officials at the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center cut his dreadlocks, […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will hold a press conference around 10 a.m. Monday. WHAT DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID ABOUT VOTING TO END THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Johnson’s press conference comes as Senate Democrats agreed to the first step in a series of procedural hurdles on Sunday. The Senate will continue to work to end the government […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), in his capacity as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, is urging President Donald Trump to refrain from granting “any form of clemency” to Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. In a letter dated Sunday, Raskin cited whistleblower information that indicated Maxwell is planning to ask the president to commute […]
A group of Republicans has unveiled a new tranche of legislation to update federal labor law, part of a push to revamp laws to fit the modern economy. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, announced the legislative initiative on Monday. Sens. Jim Banks (R-IN), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), […]
The three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Massachusetts, ruled against the Trump administration regarding the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The court denied a request by the Trump administration to block a district court’s previous ruling that full SNAP benefits were to be paid to all 42 million […]
President Donald Trump faced his first major policy test before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with his tariffs under scrutiny. The case is the first of likely many where his emergency powers are under the microscope by the high court. Trump cited declared emergencies over fentanyl and trade deficits to justify his tariffs under the […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) is reprising his role as one of President Donald Trump’s top Senate allies on foreign policy, lending his experience in Asia for a flurry of diplomatic outreach. In an interview from his Senate office, Daines said he would be leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to China next spring, for […]
Enormous amounts of unexploded ordnance across the Gaza Strip will threaten Palestinians for years to come, even if the Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds up, as it largely has for roughly a month now. The term “unexploded ordnance,” often called UXO, refers to weapons such as artillery shells, grenades, and bombs that failed to detonate as normal, […]
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation, published on Sunday night, to multiple individuals for “certain offenses related to the 2020 presidential election,” granting them a pardon for any charges against them. The official date of the actual proclamation was not revealed. “This pardon ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the […]
