Moderate House Republicans sent a warning shot to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday, coming close to blocking legislative action on the House floor in protest of the bipartisan, bicameral tax deal not including an increase in the state and local tax deduction (SALT). Taking a page out of the playbook normally used by hard-line...
Republicans are requesting a liberal Wisconsin judge recuse herself from potentially considering reviewing the Badger State’s congressional maps. Earlier this month, Democrats asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider the state’s congressional maps, using the high court’s opinion in a separate elections maps lawsuit as reason to consider a redo over Wisconsin’s congressional maps....
President Biden went to former President Trump’s territory in a swing through South Florida on Tuesday to rake in campaign cash, using the trip as another opportunity to warn of the risks of putting his predecessor back in the White House. It was clear from Biden’s arrival at the West Palm Beach airport that he...
This month more than ever, we should be focusing our attention on glaucoma and those who are seeking treatment for it.
"The View" co-host Joy Behar described former President Trump as the “most dangerous” president in her lifetime Tuesday. Behar, a liberal voice on the talk show who frequently criticizes Trump, said the former president is a perfect “target” for humor because he is so “stupid,” during a discussion on whether the United States has lost...
The Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) urged the leaders of a Senate subcommittee to back off on subpoenas issued to four of its U.S.-based consultants, according to a new letter disclosed Tuesday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The letter, dated Jan. 12, was included as an attachment to a Monday letter from subcommittee...
Former President Trump on Tuesday endorsed a primary challenger to Texas state House Speaker Dade Phelan’s (R) reelection bid, citing Phelan’s role in the “fraudulent” failed impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). In the months surrounding Paxton’s impeachment, Trump fiercely defended the state’s attorney general and attacked Phelan, who was among the...
Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas) said Tuesday he welcomes a convoy of protesters to the U.S.-Mexico border this week and supports their efforts to pressure the Biden administration to pass border security measures. The protest group, called "Take Our Border Back," began its multi-day drive across the U.S. on Monday in Virginia heading toward Florida, with...
GOP presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley hit President Biden on Tuesday over his decision in 2021 to restore funding to United Nations relief agency for Palestinians after it was halted under the Trump administration. “I know UNRWA well,” Haley, the former UN ambassador under Trump, said of the UN's Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...
Conservative social media is engulfed with a Taylor Swift conspiracy theory centered on the idea that the NFL is rigging games to ensure the pop superstar and boyfriend’s team both make and win the Super Bowl — just in time to give a nod to President Biden in the presidential election. Swift, coming off a...
She’s known for being one of Congress’s most outspoken flame throwers and a frequent culture war combatant, but Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) says there’s one hot-button subject that she "could really care less” about: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. “You want to know something? I’m really not into that whole debate and that whole...
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, a major backer of Republican campaigns, called former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley (R) a “tremendous candidate” for president but expressed doubt about her road forward Tuesday. In an interview with CNBC at the MFA Network Miami conference, the billionaire executive said he was still unsure whom he would support in...
Several of the major technology companies whose CEOs are slated to appear before Congress on Wednesday have announced new initiatives or positions on efforts to protect children’s safety online ahead of this week’s hearing. The heads of Discord, Meta, Snap, TikTok, and X, the company formerly known as Twitter, are set to testify before the...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said fellow House Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert (Colo.) should be concerned after she placed fifth in a straw poll in her new district. In an interview with The Hill’s Kevin Cirilli, Greene said she is not looking to get involved in Boebert’s primary race, after the Colorado lawmaker switched congressional...
United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain on Tuesday fired back at former President Trump after he called the union leader a “dope” for endorsing President Biden. Fain doubled down on his support for Biden and drew a stark contrast between Biden’s and Trump’s track records on supporting unions and the working class when asked...
If the disqualification decisions stand, it is at least plausible that, while there will be protests, threats and lots of griping, many Republicans will forget about Trump and focus on finding a new standard-bearer.
President Biden spoke Tuesday with the families of the three Army soldiers who were killed in a suicide drone attack in Jordan and said he plans to travel to Dover, Del., for Friday's dignified transfer of their remains. “He was grateful for their time. He expressed to them how proud we all are of their...
A cleanup crew working near the Tuolumne River outside Modesto, California, said they found what appear to be caves dug out as temporary shelters for the unhoused.
The Illinois State Board of Elections ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump could remain on the state's primary ballot, delivering the former president a key victory in a Democratic stronghold. The eight-member state board, which includes four Republicans and four Democrats, made the decision in a unanimous vote. The former president's status in the Prairie State’s primary,...
President Biden is adopting newly hawkish rhetoric on migration, pledging twice over the weekend to "shut down" the border if given the power by bipartisan Senate legislation that is still under negotiation. That claim drew fire from both the left and right. Immigration advocates were shocked at Biden's pivot, and Republicans said Biden doesn't need...
Gayle Manchin, the wife of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), was admitted to a hospital in Alabama on Tuesday after being involved in a car accident, the senator’s office announced. According to Sen. Manchin’s office, his wife and a colleague, Guy Land, were involved in an accident in Birmingham while en route to an event for...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday dug into the Biden administration’s southern border policy, arguing there “doesn’t seem to be any interest” from the White House in curbing illegal migrant crossings. Kennedy, during an interview with Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends,” recalled his experience traveling to the border and claimed he...
President Biden said Tuesday he has decided how he plans to respond to an attack on U.S. forces in Jordan that killed three Americans but stressed he was not seeking a wider war in the Middle East. The president did not specify what the U.S. would do in response to the attack by Iranian proxies...
Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign is taking a page from Regina George, responding to former President Trump’s 2024 advisers’ call for the former South Carolina governor to leave the White House race with a “Mean Girls” meme. In a memo released Monday by Trump’s campaign, advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles called out Haley for “losing...
An atmospheric river is set to soak the West Coast this week, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). A "plume of moisture will move over parts of the Pacific Northwest, producing areas of light rain over the Northwest on Tuesday,” the NWS’s Weather Prediction Center said in a forecast discussion Tuesday. “On Wednesday, a...
