Year: 2025
July 22, 2025
Congress
Senate moves on Emil Bove nomination
Senate Republicans cleared a key procedural hurdle to advance Emil Bove’s confirmation to a seat on the Third Circuit. The Senate voted 50-48 Tuesday afternoon to proceed with Bove’s...
July 22, 2025
Politics
House panel votes to name a major DC landmark after first lady Melania Trump
The opera house is the site of the televised Kennedy Center Honors every December. The opera house is the site of the televised Kennedy Center Honors every December.
July 22, 2025
Politics
Indonesia trade deal will remove critical-mineral export restrictions: WH
Indonesia will remove restrictions on its critical-mineral exports to the US as part of the countries' new tariff agreement, the White House revealed Tuesday. Indonesia will remove restrictions on...
July 22, 2025
Politics
Zohran Mamdani’s digs at Hakeem Jeffries resurface as House Dem leader weighs backing socialist NYC mayoral candidate
Socialist New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani once implied House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was an Islamophobe and likened the highest-ranking black House lawmaker in US history to...
July 22, 2025
Congress
Republicans want to rename Kennedy Center’s opera house after Melania Trump
House Republicans are moving to rename the opera house in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after first lady Melania Trump. House appropriators voted 33-25 on...
July 22, 2025
Politics
GOP Sen. Jim Banks introduces bill banning wokeness, ‘divisive narratives’ at Smithsonian museums: ‘Stop letting activists rewrite our past’
Indiana Sen. Jim Banks rolled out a new bill Tuesday to codify President Trump's executive order to rip wokeness and "divisive narratives" away from the Smithsonian Institution. Indiana Sen....
July 22, 2025
Politics
Federal judges boot Alina Habba, pick New Jersey’s next top prosecutor
Desiree Leigh Grace, who was promoted by Habba, will now serve as the US attorney for the District of New Jersey, according to an order from a federal judge....
July 22, 2025
Politics
Trump announces trade deal with ‘tough’ Philippine President Marcos
The Philippine president has doubled down on having close relations with the US during his term, which has caused some tensions with Beijing. The Philippine president has doubled down...
July 22, 2025
Congress
Elizabeth Warren vows to fight government funding bill
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday she’ll vote against the Senate’s first batch of government funding bills, signaling early hardball by Democrats ahead of a shutdown deadline 10 weeks away....
July 22, 2025
Politics
Only 400 EV-charging ports built under $7.5B US infrastructure program: GAO
In June 2024, a Democratic senator criticized the previous Biden administration for deploying just seven EV charging stations with a few dozen ports calling it "pathetic." In June 2024, a Democratic senator...