The White House’s latest dustup with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) landed with a thud Thursday among his GOP colleagues. Republican senators, including those who once opposed Thune for leader, came to his defense and downplayed remarks from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt that President Donald Trump’s patience is “running out” on the GOP-led chamber’s inability […]

Over two dozen Democrat-run states sued the Trump administration after it attached conditions to providing Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster funding. The lawsuit, filed in Rhode Island, challenges the Trump administration’s new requirement that states must certify their voter rolls and abide by federal immigration law. The law being challenged also allowed the Department of […]

Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Lori Trahan (D-MA) introduced legislation Thursday that would require large frontier artificial intelligence developers to undergo independent audits and provide transparency reports. The bill provides legislative text for one part of the draft legislation that the pair previously released, the Great American AI Act, which represents the most serious bipartisan […]

The United States is on pace to record its lowest homicide rate in more than a century, according to a report released Thursday, as killings continue to fall across much of the country despite an intensely polarized debate over crime and public safety. The midyear report from the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice found homicides […]