It was just pure luck that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals‘ protesting monkey ran into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington this month. But Kennedy didn’t turn away, and the monkey didn’t jeer. Instead, the secretary asked to pose with the monkey and a fellow T. rex […]
President Donald Trump revoked former Vice President Kamala Harris‘s Secret Service detail on the eve of her book launch and tour. A senior White House official confirmed Trump’s decision to the Washington Examiner on Friday but underscored that vice presidential Secret Service protection “typically” only lasts six months after the second-in-command leaves office. Harris’s highly […]
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte said Thursday that he filed a second criminal referral to the Department of Justice against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, whom President Donald Trump is attempting to fire. Pulte said the new referral relates to a third mortgage at her Cambridge, Massachusetts, property. In government ethics filings, he […]
Republican senators are in for a chaotic stint upon their return from the August recess next week after a series of high-profile firings by President Donald Trump that will require a congressional response. Several hearings and confirmations are on the horizon in the upper chamber after the dramatic removal of a trio of Senate-confirmed officials, […]
The Supreme Court has been away from Washington, D.C. for two months, since its final regular decision day, but as its emergency docket has continued to fill up during the summer, the justices are showing growing frustration over lower courts’ orders. As lower courts continue to issue orders blocking various actions by the Trump administration, […]
Abbe Lowell, a longtime Washington litigator who’s represented Democrats and Republicans facing politically contentious cases, has a new bloc of clients since launching his own firm earlier this year: enemies of the Trump administration. Lowell has decades of experience defending high-profile legislators and political figures on both sides of the aisle, including Jared Kushner and […]
A horrific mass shooting in Minneapolis has spawned a heated political debate over the power of prayer versus the power of government. Liberal Democrats, frustrated by their inability to enact sweeping gun control measures, have long responded with hostility to conservative Republicans offering their “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of mass shootings, viewing it […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Democrats are channeling grassroots anger at Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a series of condemnations that stop short of the calls to “abolish ICE” that defined the early anti-Trump resistance. At their summer gathering in Minnesota this week, members of the Democratic National Committee signaled the strategy they will take to oppose Trump’s immigration […]
A federal judge on Thursday allowed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia by families of 9/11 victims to proceed, marking a blow to the country’s efforts to block legal proceedings alleging it helped carry out the deadly terrorist attack. United States District Judge George Daniels in the Southern District of New York rejected the Saudi government’s […]
A federal judge on Thursday granted three former Memphis Police Department officers convicted for their roles in the death of Tyre Nichols a new trial due to concerns about judicial bias. Nichols’s death while in MPD custody in Tennessee sparked nationwide protests and calls for police reform in 2023 due to accusations that he was unfairly […]
