Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, facing a MAGA revolt over his vote in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, is about to get a boost from a super PAC committed to the Republican’s reelection. Louisiana Freedom Fund is set to announce that it has $2.5 million in cash on hand to support Cassidy, according to a person […]
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Senate Republicans batted down Democratic attempts on Wednesday to shrink the $9 billion package of funding clawbacks the chamber is expected to pass after a “vote-a-rama” amendment spree. Democrats are seeking to knock out pieces of President Donald Trump’s request to cancel $8.3 billion in foreign aid, along with $1.1 billion from public broadcasting. But […]
More cryptocurrency drama is unfolding on the House floor Wednesday, a day after conservative hard-liners foiled GOP leaders’ plans to advance a trio of regulatory bills. The hard-liners climbed back aboard following a Tuesday night meeting with President Donald Trump and a last-minute negotiation Wednesday with House leaders that allowed the chamber to take an […]
Consumer prices rose in June as President Donald Trump’s tariffs began to slowly work their way through the U.S. economy. The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of goods and services costs, increased 0.3% on the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The numbers were right […]
The joint operations between China and Russia combined with threats coming from North Korea pose the greatest threat to global order since World War II, Japan’s defense ministry said in a new document. ‘The existing order of world peace is being seriously challenged, and Japan finds itself in the most severe and complex security environment […]
President Donald Trump’s executive order increasing fees at National Parks for foreign tourists could soon be made permanent by a new bill led by Indiana Senator Jim Banks. The Patriot Parks Act looks to address the U.S. National Park Service’s (NPS) $23 billion maintenance backlog that threatens repairs to visitor facilities, trails, roads, and NPS conservation […]
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired two of his top aides. The biographies of Heather Flick Melanson, his chief of staff, and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy, are no longer pictured on the department’s leadership page. ‘Secretary Kennedy has made a leadership change within the Immediate […]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday issued his latest threat against the U.S. and ‘its dog on a leash, the Zionist regime [Israel]’ as nations urge nuclear negotiations but eye sanctions options. ‘The fact that our nation is ready to face the power of the United States and its dog on a leash, the Zionist […]
President Donald Trump fielded questions about late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case on Tuesday, saying at one point that he supported Attorney General Pam Bondi releasing ‘credible’ files from it. ‘She’s handled it very well, and it’s going to be up to her, whatever she thinks is credible she should release,’ Trump told reporters. […]
A top aide to former first lady Jill Biden refused to answer GOP investigators’ questions on Wednesday as the House Oversight Committee probes whether senior ex-White House aides covered up signs of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline. Anthony Bernal, former assistant to the president and senior advisor to the first lady, was compelled for […]