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11-03-2026 Vol 19

Year: 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thanks fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake for ‘RFKing’ french fries: ‘Customers are raving about it’

“It's a completely different experience,” the HHS secretary said of the fries, which the company now makes with beef tallow in place of vegetable oil.   “It's a completely different...

House Rules Committee advances stopgap government funding bill in effort to avoid shutdown

The GOP plan to keep the government open through September cleared the House Rules Committee in a 9-3 vote, with every Democrat on the panel voting against it.  The...

Vought pushes for stopgap funding bill in GOP meeting

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought met with some House Republicans Monday night, where he offered “full-throated support” for the seven-month funding patch, according to House Appropriations...

GOP holdouts push for Afghan visa changes in funding bill

House Republicans are set to adjust their stopgap spending bill in a bid to win over holdouts, stripping a planned increase in the number of available visas for Afghan...

Democrats offer short-term alternative to House GOP spending patch

Top Democratic appropriators released a short-term funding bill Monday night meant to serve as an alternative to the House Republican plan to fund the government through September as the...

House Republicans huddle with Bessent on tax policy menu

Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee huddled on Monday with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to review a large menu of tax options for the GOP’s policy agenda....

GOP Doctors Caucus chair: Johnson, Scalise ‘agree’ to address doctor pay in party-line bill

Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise have pledged to address pay cuts for doctors treating Medicare patients in Republicans’ party-line package to enact broad swaths of President...

Cop-biting NYC Councilwoman Susan Zhuang sinks teeth into comptroller’s race with endorsement

Brooklyn Councilwoman Susan Zhuang, who was charged with chomping on a cop at a raucous anti-homeless shelter rally in July, has announced she is endorsing Manhattan Borough President Mark...

Abbey Gate bombing suspect was not a top-level planner of deadly attack, FBI says — but will remain behind bars 

An FBI special agent alleged that Sharifullah was tasked by ISIS-K higher-ups with conducting reconnaissance ahead of the attack, including surveilling the road leading to Abbey Gate for the...

Senate OKs Trump labor pick Lori Chavez-DeRemer — as one more Cabinet confirmation looms

The Senate confirmed Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the Department of Labor in a bipartisan vote Monday, all but finalizing President Trump’s cabinet. The Senate confirmed Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead...