Year: 2025
March 13, 2025
Congress
House Oversight Committee launches probe into deadly plane crash
In wake of the January crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people, leaders of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee are launching a bipartisan...
March 13, 2025
Politics
FBI’s new taskforce arrests 214 criminals, including Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangbangers, in two weeks
“This is the first-in-the-nation, FBI-led interagency task force established to strike at the violent criminals and illegals harming our citizenry and our way of life," FBI Director Kash Patel...
March 13, 2025
Politics
Putin rejects Trump-proposed cease-fire, demands US stop arming Ukraine ahead of Witkoff meeting in Moscow
“We agree with proposals to cease hostilities , but this cessation must lead to a long-term peace and eliminate the root cause of the initial crisis," Russia's leader...
March 13, 2025
Politics
Trump’s FDA and NIH picks clear committee, teeing up final Senate confirmation
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee approved Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya's nomination to be NIH director in a 12-11 vote and backed Dr. Martin Makary's bid to be...
March 13, 2025
Congress
Johnson taps Boeing exec Curtis Beaulieu as top tax adviser
House Speaker Mike Johnson is naming Boeing official Curtis Beaulieu his top tax adviser, sources familiar with the decision say, filling a big hole on his staff as a...
March 13, 2025
Congress
White House withdraws CDC director nominee
Dave Weldon had faced growing scrutiny over his anti-vaccine views.
March 13, 2025
Politics
White House yanks Trump pick Dave Weldon for CDC director
The White House has withdrawn the nomination of vaccine skeptic and former Republican Congressman Dave Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hours before he...
March 13, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Senate Dems’ last-minute shutdown gambit
Senate Democrats are still not committing to helping Republicans pass a seven-month funding stopgap, edging the country closer to a government shutdown as they attempt to force a vote...
March 13, 2025
Politics
Tim Walz takes blame for ‘mess’ the Democratic Party is in after election loss to Trump
The 60-year-old Minnesota governor claimed America "wouldn't be in this mess" if he and former Vice President Kamala Harris won the 2024 election in November. The 60-year-old Minnesota governor...
March 13, 2025
Congress
Trump’s Capitol Hill agenda in limbo
House and Senate Republicans are sinking deeper into an impasse over how to advance President Donald Trump’s vast legislative agenda.