House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) dismissed reporters’ questions on Wednesday about the sextortion allegations made against Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), who was hit with a restraining order the day before. “I have not heard or looked into any of the details of that,” Johnson said during a press conference on Capitol Hill, adding he’s not […]

EXCLUSIVE — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said skyrocketing electricity costs are a “binding constraint” of growing America’s artificial intelligence sector but suggested several ways the Trump administration is working to ease the cost of those increases on households. The AI expansion has placed a significant strain on the electrical grid, causing homes located near the growing […]

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has presented Democrats with a fresh unity test two weeks into the government shutdown, daring them to oppose a bill to fund the Pentagon and other full-year spending measures that enjoy bipartisan support. On Thursday, Republicans will hold a procedural vote on War Department funding, forcing Democrats to decide […]

Former special counsel Jack Smith sharply criticized the Supreme Court‘s landmark decision that found that then former-President Donald Trump and other presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for official acts taken while in office, warning that the ruling could make it nearly impossible to hold powerful officials accountable. In his first public remarks since Trump’s […]