Thursday

19-03-2026 Vol 19

Year: 2025

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

How Rand Paul got sidelined by fellow Republicans

The Kentucky senator has found himself cut out of negotiations over his own committee's portion of the GOP megabill.

Carville says Dems ‘betrayed’ working-class voters by not including them in ‘too-cool-for-school’ coalition

James Carville spoke out about the Democratic party's situation with voters on his podcast Thursday. James Carville spoke out about the Democratic party's situation with voters on his podcast...

Mark Cuban reveals Kamala Harris considered him as a potential VP — but turned her down

“My response was I’m not very good as the number two person,” Cuban told Miller in a clip of Friday’s episode.  “My response was I’m not very good as...

Michelle Obama says she is ‘so glad’ she didn’t have a son: ‘Would have been a Barack Obama’

The former first lady made the remark on her podcast after guest, Hot 97 personality Angie Martinez, suggested the mother of two daughters "should have threw a boy in...

Majority of Democratic voters think the party should stop focusing on transgender issues and replace leadership  

The Reuters/Ipsos survey, released Thursday, found 62% of self-identifying Democrats agree that party leadership “should be replaced with new people.”  The Reuters/Ipsos survey, released Thursday, found 62% of self-identifying...