Year: 2025
October 09, 2025
Congress
Republican defense cardinal throws weight behind bill to pay troops during shutdown
Rep. Ken Calvert, the House Republican in charge of defense funding, is throwing his weight behind a bipartisan bill that would allow members of the military to get paid...
October 09, 2025
Politics
Gazans join Israelis in chanting Trump’s name over cease-fire: ‘Nobel Prize to Trump!’
Footage from both the streets of Tel Aviv and war-torn Gaza showed crowds of revelers celebrating what they hope will be the end of the two-year war. Footage from...
October 09, 2025
Politics
Barron Trump tipped for leading role at TikTok
Barron, who has just moved back into the White House while he attends classes at New York University’s DC campus in the nation’s capital, has yet to comment on the proposition....
October 09, 2025
Congress
Chuck Schumer’s critics are praising how he’s handled the shutdown. For now.
The guardedly positive reviews for the New Yorker's leadership come as the shutdown fight enters a politically perilous new phase.
October 09, 2025
Congress
Graham Platner has a growing Senate fan club
The Maine oyster farmer is winning praise from some Democrats as he prepares to face Chuck Schumer’s dream recruit.
October 09, 2025
Politics
Support for embattled Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones plummets in internal poll after text scandal
“Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones texted in 2022, later adding: “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives...
October 09, 2025
Politics
Trump expects Israeli hostages to be released Monday after admin brokered breakthrough peace deal
Trump expects Hamas to release all remaining Israeli hostages on Monday Trump expects Hamas to release all remaining Israeli hostages on Monday
October 09, 2025
Health Care
CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women
The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women. The panel voted to...
October 09, 2025
Politics
Mike Lawler and Hakeem Jeffries get into fiery shouting match: ‘Keep your mouth shut’
Hudson Valley Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) got into an epic war of words with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) over his role in causing the partial government shutdown...
October 09, 2025
Politics
Sherrill accuses Ciattarelli of taking money to publish propaganda about opioids: ‘Tens of thousands of New Jerseyans died’
Rep. Mikie Sherrill abruptly pivoted from a question about the unemployment rate in New Jersey to launch a scathing attack on Republican Jack Ciattarelli's business. Rep. Mikie Sherrill abruptly...