The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously advanced a bill Thursday that would require TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to divest the app or face a U.S. ban. The “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” advanced out of committee with overwhelming bipartisan support just two days after it was introduced by Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.)...
Haiti advocates in the United States are calling on the Biden administration to rethink its approach toward the country amid gang warfare threatening to topple the U.S.-backed government. Haitian acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry is in Puerto Rico, unable to return to his country under threat of "civil war" by an alliance of gangs. Henry...
The White House is bashing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for saying Thursday that lawmakers have "to grapple with" questions about whether destroying embryos is murder after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled embryos are children, temporarily pausing some in vitro fertilization (IVF) services in the state. In an interview with CBS host Tony Dokoupil, Johnson was asked whether...
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said the “question of when life begins” should not be “decided by politicians” in the wake of a recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that said frozen embryos are children under state law. “I personally believe that the question of when life begins is a theological, moral or philosophical...
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has raised $5.7 million in the first two months of the year amid a contentious race as he tries for reelection to the Senate, his campaign announced. The Friends of Sherrod Brown campaign now reports having $13.5 million on hand as three Republicans vie in the primary to take on the...
Recent bouts of heavy mountain snowfall in parts of the U.S. West have helped quell a "snow drought" that was threatening to further desiccate an already arid region, federal meteorologists announced Thursday. A major, four-day blizzard earlier this month brought considerable improvements to the Sierra Nevada, freeing the entire region from the so-called "snow drought"...
The GOP-led House Budget Committee on Thursday voted to advance a budget resolution that includes ambitious proposals aimed at cutting federal spending, beefing up work requirements for social programs and the establishing a special commission to tackle funding threats to entitlements. The committee voted along party lines to advance the proposal after an hours-long...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday he expects to see some banks fail due to their exposure to the commercial real estate sector, which has declined significantly in value following the shift to remote work. Powell said the banks that are in trouble with falling office space and retail assets are not the big...
The best way to truly protect life is to make it easier and safer for people to have children, and to ensure that those who do not want to have them can choose not to.
Candidates who often discuss restrictions on transgender Americans or signal support for policies that limit access to gender-affirming health care may be drumming up more opposition than support, according to a survey released Thursday by GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy organization. More than 50 percent of both registered and likely voters surveyed by the group in January...
Cable news host Chris Cuomo will broadcast a one-one-one conversation with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that will air early next week on NewsNation. The wide-ranging, one-on-one conversation between the two longtime media figures will air Monday, March 11, at 8 p.m. EDT. During the conversation, the pair will discuss Carlson's "departure from Fox News Media, the...
Former President Trump on Thursday encouraged a longtime political aide to run for an open congressional seat in Georgia. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he would support Brian Jack if he launched a campaign in Georgia's 3rd Congressional District to replace Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.), who announced in December he would not...
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would require the detention of any migrant who committed burglary or theft, legislation that House Republicans named after a Georgia student who police say was killed by a man who illegally crossed the border. The measure — dubbed the Laken Riley Act — cleared the chamber in an 251-170...
The fate of the legislative package is now uncertain.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sounded sunny about the outlook for the U.S. economy during two days of testimony on Capitol Hill, during which the risk of recession was barely mentioned and fears of an economic downturn had all but evaporated. “The economy is growing at a healthy, sustainable, solid, strong pace,” Powell said during...
Battery electric vehicles (BEV) will, on average, be less costly to produce than gas-powered cars by 2027, according to market research firm Gartner. Gartner predicted in their report, published Thursday, that production costs will decrease much faster than the cost of batteries, which account for about 30-40 percent of the EV’s purchase price, according to the Environmental...
Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso (Wyo.) says he has locked down enough votes to become the next Senate Republican whip in 2025. Barrasso, who was often mentioned as a potential candidate for Senate Republican leader, instead focused his efforts over the past week on rounding up enough support for the No. 2 elected member...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said he is postponing a markup for a contempt resolution of State Secretary Antony Blinken after he agreed to produce the subpoenaed documents on the U.S's exit from Afghanistan in 2021. “I had a good conversation with the secretary last night, and he agreed to produce the...
Drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim plans to cap the out-of-pocket costs for all its inhalers at $35 per month after coming under fire from Democratic lawmakers over pricing. The company announced Thursday that the program will start June 1. It’s aimed at patients with employer-sponsored insurance, and those who are underinsured and uninsured, meaning they likely have...
Former Vice President Mike Pence is hitting President Biden in an opinion piece ahead of Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address Thursday evening. In the op-ed published in The Washington Times, Pence wrote that after serving as vice president and a member of Congress, he was in attendance for three different presidents’ annual speeches,...
Haley's write-in campaign would likely be the decisive blow to Trump’s reelection prospects.
The GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday passed a bill that would block the Biden administration from implementing rules requiring minimum staffing levels for nursing homes. The bill would "prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing a proposed rule regarding minimum staffing for nursing facilities." It passed through the committee...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joked Thursday that the "Morning Joe" team did not need to hear from her, after host Joe Scarborough and others on the program heaped praise on President Biden. "Let’s go right to the White House. Joining us now, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre," co-host Willie Geist said, introducing...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) announced Thursday he’s endorsing former President Trump, one day after Nikki Haley dropped out of the race. “Voters in the Commonwealth and across the county have spoken loudly for Donald J. Trump and I endorse him for President of the United States,” Youngkin said in a statement posted on X, formerly...
Alberto Gonzales, who served as Attorney General in former President George W. Bush's administration, was on a plane as the "designated survivor" for the 2007 State of the Union address, a unique experience he discussed Thursday with NewsNation. Gonzales said he was approached by Bush’s chief of staff about a week before the speech about...
