![Senate Dems prepare to filibuster GOP plan to avert govt shutdown — despite trying to defang tactic under Biden]()
Back in 2022, then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took up consideration of a measure in 2022 to shift to a watered-down "talking filibuster" on two pieces of voting...
![Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva dead at 77, second House Dem to pass away this Congress]()
The staunch Democrat revealed his cancer diagnosis last year, but was optimistic about treatment and chose to run for a second term. The staunch Democrat revealed his cancer diagnosis...
![Trump administration demands UN agencies disclose any ‘anti-American’ ties]()
The Trump administration is demanding U.N. humanitarian agencies that receive or disburse U.S. funding fill out a questionnaire disclosing any ties to communism, socialism or anti-American beliefs. The Trump...
![Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, 89, bankrolling US ‘working families’ group opposed to Trump tax cuts]()
An upstart progressive advocacy group claiming to support "working families" and opposed to President Trump's plans to "give more tax cuts" to billionaires is, itself, funded by billionaires. An...
![Trump says ‘you have to keep NATO strong’ — as alliance chief hails prez for ‘staggering’ boost in military spending]()
"You have to keep NATO strong. You have to keep it relevant," Trump said in the Oval Office while hosting NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. "You have to keep...
![Trump administration asks Supreme Court to partly allow birthright citizenship restrictions]()
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out. In emergency applications filed...
![Trump to use wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport illegal migrants from ‘enemy nations’: sources]()
The president had campaigned on invoking the centuries-old law to remove illegal migrants from "enemy nations" if they are deemed a threat to the US -- a move that...
![Sarah McBride says she lives ‘rent-free’ in Republicans’ heads]()
LEESBURG, Virginia — Rep. Sarah McBride said she lived to “rent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues” amid a controversy about GOP lawmakers referring to her...
![Senate confirms Pulte as top housing regulator, with market’s future at stake]()
The Senate on Thursday voted 56-43 to confirm Bill Pulte as the nation's top housing regulator, putting him at the center of a fight over the future of two...
![Elon Musk, DOGE ordered to release internal records, explain mass firings]()
The decision is in response to a group of 14 Democratic state attorneys general who jointly sued DOGE, claiming that Musk and his army of engineers tasked with trimming...
