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Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was arrested and charged with assaulting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with vinegar during a town hall in her district last week, and a federal judge has ordered him to remain behind bars.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) will hold a public forum Tuesday on the Trump administration’s “violent tactics and disproportionate use of force” in its immigration enforcement operations. The forum comes as Democrats have pushed for reforms within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following two fatal shootings in Minneapolis at the…

An Epstein survivor said seeing her name unredacted in the documents broke her “trust in the Justice Department.”

It’s not just Bad Bunny performing on Sunday. Here’s what to know about the rest of the Super Bowl musical entertainment.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony Tuesday afternoon from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos on the streaming platform’s bid to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN, HBO and other top media brands. Netflix announced in December it had reached a $72 billion deal to acquire the company, which will grow to…

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) fired back at President Trump on Monday after he accused the GOP lawmaker’s wife of being a part of the “radical left” in a Truth Social post. “So now he’s attacking my wife who voted for him three times,” Massie wrote in a post on the social platform X.  “Maybe someone…

Columnist and author Michael Wolff on Sunday clapped back at President Trump’s threat of filing a lawsuit against him claiming Wolff and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein conspired to hurt him politically, prompting the writer to tell the president to “bring it on.” Wolff, in a video posted on Instagram, referred to when first lady…

Let’s just say that President John F. Kennedy’s niece thinks the center’s closure is more about Trump than the building needing a renovation.

The administration has repeatedly used claims of national security as a get-out-of-court-free card. This might be the most absurd of them all.

After President Trump slammed Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and his wife on Monday, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) criticized her former Republican colleagues for not standing by the Kentuckian. In a lengthy post on the social platform X, Greene wrote that Trump “should be more concerned with voters” instead of “super rich donors and…

The House is set to take up a floor vote on the five-bill minibus and stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Tuesday afternoon, after lawmakers cleared a key procedural vote despite reservations from some within the GOP caucus. Conservative members were not happy with the Senate breaking up the funding package and…

The State Department was sued Tuesday by would-be immigrants who argue the Trump administration ran afoul of the law when barring immigrant visas for 75 different countries.  The Monday suit targets a January decision by the Trump administration to pause processing for immigrant visas, arguing people from those countries may end up relying on welfare. …

The Pentagon says it is close to an agreement with Scouting America to keep providing financial support, but said the organization must show its commitment to implementing “common-sense, core value reforms.”  The Defense Department (DOD) said that it has been reviewing its partnership with Scouting America over the past several months, arguing that the organization…

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday touted a new $100 million effort to fight opioid addiction highlighting the country’s “fragmented” system for addressing substance abuse.  Kennedy said HHS will implement the Safety Through Recovery, Engagement, and Evidence-based Treatment and Supports (STREETS) Initiative in the upcoming weeks to…

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) will speak with reporters Tuesday afternoon as Democrats raise concerns about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s presence during the recent FBI raid on an election office in Fulton County, Ga. FBI agents were seen removing documents from the office that were tied to the 2020 presidential election. President Trump has…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday rejected President Trump’s call for Republicans in Washington to “nationalize” voting in the United States and “take over” the management of elections in 15 states. Thune said that while he strongly supports requiring voters to show identification to prove they are citizens, he does not support the…

This was always about politics, not the Constitution or the law more generally. 

President Trump slammed Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and his wife Monday, as the House prepares to vote on a key funding package that could reopen the government after a partial shutdown. “People are saying that Thomas Massie became a Liberal because his new wife, blessed be their marriage, is supposedly a Radical Left ‘flamethrower,’” Trump…

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday the Texas Democrat who won a state Senate seat over the weekend “looked like a Republican,” which he argued helped him successfully flip the district. “This is a state Senate race, and it’s a special election. Democrats always do well in a special election down here, but the…

Texas state Sen.-elect Taylor Rehmet (D) said President Trump was a nonfactor in his Tuesday election victory, when the candidate flipped the district from red to blue. “Well, I don‘t believe he was able to vote in this race. He doesn‘t live here in Senate District 9,” Rehmet said late Tuesday in an appearance on…

Trump encouraged the protests not only to continue but to escalate; his failure to deliver on his promise of support contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents.

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback said Monday he joined the dating app Tinder to meet young female voters in the state. Fishback, 31, wrote on the social platform X that he joined Tinder “to meet young female voters where they are, and share my plan to make it easier for them to get married,…

Rear Adm. David C. Barata will testify before a House Homeland Security panel Tuesday morning on the U.S. Coast Guard’s (USCG) moves to combat narcoterrorism, including the continued strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. The hearing comes a month after the capture and ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who…
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Monday that there is a chance anyone who attended parties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein could be prosecuted but noted that “it isn’t a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.” “Well, look, I’ll never say no, and we will always investigate any evidence of misconduct, but as you…

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republican leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as lawmakers are set to vote on legislation to end the partial government shutdown. The House Rules Committee on Monday night advanced the bill, teeing up what will be a tight vote on the House floor for GOP leaders. Minority Leader…