September 10, 2025
House GOP majority could shrink as soon as Wednesday
House Democrats are pushing to swear in Rep.-elect James Walkinshaw later today after the Virginia Democrat won a special election Tuesday to succeed the late Rep. Gerry Connolly. Walkinshaw’s blowout victory will narrow Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin margin to 219 Republicans and 213 Democrats, meaning the GOP can lose no more than two members on […]
September 10, 2025
Scalise hints GOP may push nationwide crime crackdown after DC overhaul
House Republicans are having early talks about cracking down on crime nationwide, the No. 2 GOP lawmaker suggested on Tuesday. ‘There are discussions about addressing some of these problems at a more federal level, but right now, we’re focused on D.C.,’ House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News Digital. ‘The president’s been very […]
September 10, 2025
Harris admits Biden ‘got tired,’ denies ‘conspiracy’ to hide mental decline
Former Vice President Kamala Harris admits that former President Joe Biden got ‘tired’ while in office, but she insists there was no ‘big conspiracy’ to cover up his decline. Harris made the claims in a newly released excerpt from her upcoming book, ‘107 Days,’ which details her experience running for president with frequent throwbacks to […]
September 10, 2025
Mills is interviewing staff for a possible Senate run
Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is interviewing staff for a potential Senate bid, a person familiar with the process confirmed on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Punchbowl. The interviews come as Mills is “seriously considering” a run against longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins and will have a decision by November, according to local […]
September 10, 2025
Capitol agenda: What the CR timing dispute is really about
The Trump administration wants a stopgap funding plan through Jan. 31. Appropriators are prepared to go their own way. It’s about more than a date — it’s the latest proxy battle in the larger clash over whether to pursue a deal to extend expiring health insurance subsidies and attach it to a plan funding the […]
September 10, 2025
Elon Musk agrees with JD Vance on the ‘big lie the Democrats told about violent crime’
Business tycoon Elon Musk agreed with Vice President JD Vance’s assertion that the bulk of violent crime is perpetrated by a small pool of people who should be locked up. ‘The big lie the Democrats told about violent crime is that it’s ‘systemic’ and therefore no one’s really responsible. If the ‘system’ is to blame […]
September 10, 2025
As Trump’s bawdy birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein appears, he still insists he never sent it
It really shouldn’t be that big a deal. Donald Trump was one of many friends solicited to send messages to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. There’s a far more cautious one from Bill Clinton, too. If the president had merely said ‘yeah, I sent it, we were joking back and forth, nothing to see […]
September 10, 2025
This deal could avert a shutdown — if Congress decides to take it
If they squint, lawmakers can see the outlines of a bipartisan deal that could avoid a government shutdown later this year. But bringing an agreement into focus — and enacting it into law — will be no small task. The general parameters floated by multiple factions in the House and Senate is to couple, by […]
September 10, 2025
Hawley pushes legal action against Meta after whistleblowers detail child abuse in VR
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called to ‘open the courtroom doors’ so parents can sue Meta, accusing founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of misleading Congress after whistleblowers detailed child safety failures on the company’s virtual reality (VR) platforms. Two former Meta researchers told a Senate panel Tuesday that the company buried child harm evidence in VR, […]
September 10, 2025
Whole milk makes a comeback in new MAHA children’s health strategy
The Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission indicated that, after more than a decade of restrictions on whole milk in schools, the federal government is planning to drop them. The decision to drop the restrictions on whole milk sales in schools was announced as part of the MAHA commission’s Make Our Children Healthy […]
September 10, 2025
Democrats add 1 more vote in Congress after Virginia special election
Democratic Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw defeated Republican Stewart Whitson easily on Tuesday, with The Associated Press calling the race at 7:36 p.m. Eastern time. The race for the seat in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District was widely expected to be won by Walkinshaw, who will replace his former boss. The late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, […]
September 9, 2025
Inside Epstein’s infamous ‘birthday book’: Clinton’s note, poolside candids and bizarre animal pics
Among the files made public by the House Oversight Committee is a document that stands out for its tone: a glossy 238-page scrapbook that offers a rare and unusually intimate glimpse of Jeffrey Epstein’s self-curated network. The infamous ‘birthday book,’ compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003, for Epstein’s 50th includes what appears to be notes […]