Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin attended his first Cabinet meeting Thursday, a gathering that comes at a crucial time as negotiations on Capitol Hill to fund his department are teetering on the edge of collapse. President Donald Trump did not call on Mullin to deliver his own report during the meeting. Trump opened the meeting, […]
America250, the entity tasked by Congress with marking the United States’ semiquincentennial, on Thursday revealed further details about its sweeping plans to celebrate the milestone. America250 chairwoman Rosie Rios launched the official 100-day countdown to July 4, and said the organization is creating “the largest synchronized Fourth of July celebration in U.S. history” through block […]
The Justice Department argued Wednesday that geofence warrants are legal law enforcement tools that are “fully consistent with the Constitution,” as the widely used practice in criminal investigations is set to face scrutiny before the Supreme Court in April. A geofence warrant is a request made by the government to a technology company, such as […]
Ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are set to appear Thursday in a Manhattan federal courtroom for the first time since their January arrest, as their legal team pushes to have sweeping drug trafficking charges dismissed. At the center of the hearing is a dispute over whether the U.S. government has […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) introduced legislation on Thursday requiring professional sports team owners to give local governments and investors a chance to buy their teams before relocating. Dubbed the Home Team Act, the bill would limit team owners from moving their franchise across state lines or into new metro areas […]
Thursday’s Washington Secrets comes to you from CPAC, just outside Dallas. We’re here even if Donald Trump and Sen. John Cornyn are giving it a wide berth. Today, we interview the attendees who very much want the attacks on the Iranian regime to continue, and we get a pretty big clue about who CPAC will […]
A naval drone struck a Turkish oil tanker carrying Russian crude oil in the Black Sea near Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait on Thursday. Turkey’s minister of transportation and infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloglu, confirmed the incident to local media on Thursday. The oil-carrying vessel, the Altura, was sailing from Novorossiysk, Russia, to Istanbul when it was hit by […]
The White House’s social media accounts have shared vague videos hinting at something “launching soon.” The first video, posted on X on Wednesday night, features a video of someone pointing their phone camera down at their feet and includes a Snapchat banner that reads, “Sound on.” “It’s launching soon, right?” Someone in the video says. […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was the sole Democrat to vote against his party in Wednesday’s vote to reopen the government as the partial shutdown stretches into its 41st day. “The only thing we’re doing is we’re punishing people,” Fetterman said on NewsNation’s CUOMO Wednesday night. The 41-day shutdown is close to breaking the longest shutdown […]
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s (D-FL) political future will be at play in a rare public ethics hearing on Thursday, after she was accused of carrying out a multimillion-dollar laundering scheme involving Federal Emergency Management Agency funds. The House Ethics Committee is considering the case this week. Members will determine whether accusations that Cherfilus-McCormick stole $5 million […]
