EXCLUSIVE — Blake Masters, who lost his Senate bid in Arizona last cycle and is running to represent the state’s 8th Congressional District, is tied with a candidate backed by former President Donald Trump in a crowded primary for the deep-red Arizona House seat, according to an internal polling memo commissioned by Masters’s campaign. The […]
The Republican Party’s wholesale rejection of the bipartisan border security deal came at the expense of four months of work from one of their own. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) was the GOP’s lead negotiator on the agreement, which Republicans abandoned within two days of the legislative text being released. Appropriators unveiled bill text on Sunday […]
The House rejected an effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday after four Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the measure, dealing a blow to GOP leadership. Republican lawmakers sought to impeach Mayorkas on two charges, including willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law as well as a breach of the […]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has agreed to testify in front of the House Armed Services Committee about his decisions to keep his recent hospitalization a secret from top Biden administration officials. The secretary will appear in front of the committee on Feb. 29, the committee’s spokesperson said on Tuesday. Lawmakers initially pushed for Austin to […]
Four Republican lawmakers flipped on their party and killed the effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a stunning vote Tuesday night. The lawmakers saved Mayorkas and voted with all Democrats, handing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a massive loss. The impeachment effort failed in a 216-214 vote. Here are lawmakers who turned […]
The House failed to pass a stand-alone bill to provide billions in military assistance to Israel and U.S. forces in the region, with lawmakers on both sides voting against the measure. The bill came up short, with 250 lawmakers voting for the measure and 180 voting against it. The bill was brought to the floor […]
House Republicans failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a contentious vote Tuesday that will temporarily spare the Cabinet official from facing removal proceedings. Lawmakers voted by a narrow margin of 214-216 to reject the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, who was confirmed by the Senate in February 2023 to lead the department’s […]
Former President Donald Trump slammed a presidential immunity ruling on Tuesday after a federal appeals court ruled he could not invoke the privilege in relation to charges on his alleged efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump claimed the ruling was “not what our founders wanted,” and that the office loses […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) expressed that judges should use discretion to hold violent criminals for longer after several immigrants suspected of attacking New York City Police Department officers reportedly left the state. “I want judges to hold people and find out if there’s been a history, a pattern here,” Hochul said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe […]
Former Star Wars actress Gina Carano announced Tuesday that she is suing the Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm roughly three years after she was fired over social media posts she had made. Carano explained that she was contacted by a lawyer from X who helped her move forward with this lawsuit. X owner Elon Musk […]
