Year: 2025
March 07, 2025
Politics
Trump’s labor secretary pick Lori Chavez-DeRemer advances to final Senate vote
In a 66-30 vote, 15 Democratic senators signaled support for President Trump’s pick, as Chavez-DeRemer advanced to a final vote on her nomination – which is scheduled to take...
March 07, 2025
Politics
House GOPers ask RFK-run agency if Andrew Cuomo’s COVID nursing home order broke safety rules
House Republicans from New York are asking federal health agencies overseen by Robert Kennedy Jr. to rule on whether ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo -- now a mayoral candidate -- violated...
March 07, 2025
Politics
Watchdog agency head fired by Trump ends fight to keep his job
Hampton Dellinger ended his legal battle to stay on as head of the Office of Special Counsel one day after a panel of judges on the DC Circuit Court...
March 06, 2025
Politics
NYC remains a sanctuary city — as ‘nothing has changed’ despite Mayor Adams floating policy rollback, officials say
Adams administration officials insisted Thursday that sanctuary city laws are still being followed — telling lawmakers that “nothing has changed” despite Mayor Eric Adams’ floating a potential rollback of...
March 06, 2025
Congress
House GOP stopgap funding bill expected to avert pay cuts to doctors, extend telehealth access
A stopgap measure to keep the government funded through the end of September is expected to include measures to avert cuts in pay for doctors treating Medicare patients and...
March 06, 2025
Politics
State Department to deploy AI-powered ‘catch and revoke’ tools against Hamas sympathizers: report
The State Department is reportedly embarking on an artificial intelligence-powered initiative to spot foreigners in the US who are sympathetic to Hamas or other terror organizations and revoke their...
March 06, 2025
Politics
AOC, other Dem congresswomen roasted over cringey ‘Choose your fighter’ TikTok
“Democrats Not Be Cringe Challenge,” the Trump administration’s Rapid Response account wrote on X. “Level: Impossible.” “Democrats Not Be Cringe Challenge,” the Trump administration’s Rapid Response account wrote on...
March 06, 2025
Politics
Trump tells stranded astronauts ‘we’re coming up to get you,’ teases SpaceX mission ‘in two weeks’
"Biden left them up there," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We have two astronauts that are stuck in space. I have asked Elon, I said, 'Do me...
March 06, 2025
Congress
Veterans cuts spark GOP backlash on Capitol Hill
"We don't need to be reading memos in the paper about 20 percent cut at the VA," Sen. Lindsey Graham said.
March 06, 2025
Politics
Why federal agency spending has outpaced inflation — despite headcounts dropping
Washington is spending more of your money than ever -- far above the rate of price increases over the past quarter-century. Washington is spending more of your money than...