Year: 2025
March 11, 2025
Politics
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...
March 11, 2025
Politics
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...
March 11, 2025
Congress
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...
March 11, 2025
Congress
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...
March 11, 2025
Congress
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...
March 11, 2025
Congress
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....
March 11, 2025
Congress
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...
March 10, 2025
Politics
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...
March 10, 2025
Politics
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...
March 10, 2025
Politics
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...