Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faces a daunting task of rallying his Republican conference, swaying holdouts, and bringing a short-term spending bill to the floor by the end of this week, ahead of a government shutdown. Republicans released bill text for the continuing resolution on Tuesday. Under the 72-hour rule, this would put the legislation up for a […]

Attorney General Pam Bondi is once again in trouble with her own party over her promise to prosecute “hate speech,” with concerns over free speech rivaling the criticism she faced over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. On Tuesday, Bondi qualified her statement that the Justice Department would “go after you if you are […]

A driver crashed a car into the gate of an FBI building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on early Wednesday morning.  Witnesses claimed to have seen the driver exit the vehicle and place a U.S. flag over the gate after the crash. He then proceeded to yell at the FBI building, but there was no confirmation of […]

A brewing fight over government funding is giving Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) a second chance to stand his ground against Republicans and avoid the divisions that hobbled his party in a similar showdown earlier this year. On Tuesday, Schumer made the case that the political tides had shifted since March, when he caved […]