Month: June 2025
June 20, 2025
Politics
Supreme Court rejects toy company’s request to fast track Trump tariff challenge
Learning Resources, which makes educational toys, asked the Supreme Court to take the rare step of immediately hearing the case to decide the legality of the tariffs Learning Resources, which makes...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Ohio man arrested in investigation into GOP Rep. Max Miller being ‘run off the road’
Police arrested an Ohio man in their investigation into a Thursday road rage incident in which Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) said he was “run off the road” by a...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Rand Paul gets behind a judicial nominee he previously blocked
GOP Sen. Rand Paul is throwing his support behind a home-state judicial pick that he stalled three years ago as part of a feud with his fellow Kentuckian Mitch...
June 20, 2025
Politics
California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls wife ‘first partner,’ gets dragged online, including by Riley Gaines
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting roasted on social media after he called his wife, Jennifer, "first partner" in a birthday tribute. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting roasted...
June 20, 2025
Politics
Biden ‘talking in the quiet car,’ asking for ice cream on Amtrak rides to DC office
Former President Joe Biden has been commuting on Amtrak most weeks to his government-provided DC office — where little known work is being done — and allegedly forgot a...
June 20, 2025
Education
Miami-Dade school custodian accused of pushing employee down stairs; caught with loaded gun
A Miami-Dade school custodian was arrested Tuesday after police say he attacked a fellow employee at Van E. Blanton Elementary and was later found carrying a loaded handgun in...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Provider tax crackdown is a no-go in the House, Hawley warns
Sen. Josh Hawley is urging GOP leaders to strike Senate Finance Committee language altering a key Medicaid financing provision, warning he's already hearing from House Republicans that it can't...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Parliamentarian nixes key pieces of Tim Scott’s megabill proposal
The Senate parliamentarian ruled Thursday that several key provisions in Banking Chair Tim Scott’s proposed contribution to the GOP’s “big beautiful bill” violate the upper chamber’s rules for the...
June 20, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Rand Paul forces GOP into megabill runaround
Sen. Rand Paul is a frequent thorn in GOP leadership’s side. But his recent break over border security funding in President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” has top Republicans...
June 20, 2025
Congress
White House floats a new funding trick — and GOP lawmakers grimace
The Republicans in charge of funding the government don't like what they're hearing from President Donald Trump's budget chief.