Month: May 2025
May 05, 2025
Congress
House Republicans again block vote on Trump’s tariffs
Republicans on the House Rules Committee moved again to block a vote on rolling back Donald Trump’s tariffs Monday in their latest effort to protect the president's authority over...
May 05, 2025
Congress
AOC won’t seek top Oversight Committee post
She cited the caucus’ preference for seniority.
May 05, 2025
Congress
Trump’s No. 1 campaign pledge hinges on GOP delivering megabill
Top administration officials have been in close touch with the Hill about the funding needed to ramp up removals.
May 05, 2025
Politics
Trump tells Harvard: No more money without antisemitism crackdown
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s Education Department warned Harvard University Monday that the Ivy League school is no longer eligible for new federal grants — until they address rampant, flagrant...
May 05, 2025
Politics
NIH shutters notorious lab accused of slaughtering beagles for four decades
An government research lab that had been used to conduct “cruel” and deadly drug experiments on beagles has been shut down, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya revealed....
May 05, 2025
Health Care
Trump will defend Biden’s abortion pill rules in Texas case
The filing over the regulation of mifepristone indicates an emerging pattern: An effort to preserve executive power. The filing over the regulation of mifepristone indicates an emerging pattern: An...
May 05, 2025
Politics
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp passes on Senate run in latest GOP 2026 setback
Kemp, 61, had been widely regarded as the most formidable potential Republican candidate, having polled ahead of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) in some surveys. Kemp, 61, had been widely...
May 05, 2025
Politics
Trump defends viral AI picture of him as the pope: ‘Have to have a little fun’
President Trump defended the viral picture he posted of himself dressed as the pope, saying the AI-generated image was a "joke" and that you "have to have a little...
May 05, 2025
Politics
Muslim support for Democrats plunges as group opens to Trump’s Gaza plan: poll
Only a third of Muslim-Americans identify as Democrats as the party reels from political setbacks with a bloc of voters it hemorrhaged in the 2024 election cycle, according to...
May 05, 2025
Education
‘Come see gorillas before their departure’: Zoo Miami won’t have any for 1st time in over 40 years
Gorillas continue to be at high risk of extinction in the wild in Africa due to threats that include poachers. Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill wants children to learn more...