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President Trump’s approval rating is slipping, with more than one-third of Americans saying they disapprove of how the president is handling his job, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. The poll, released Thursday, found that Trump’s approval rating fell 3 percentage points from last fall and now stands at 37 percent. Trump’s support…

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) slammed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for delays in providing disaster recovery aid to his state while speaking on the Senate floor Thursday. “The data clearly shows that something is seriously wrong here,” Tillis said, pointing to a chart showing the federal government’s responses to hurricanes Helene, Matthew and Florence. “Under…

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) called Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s involvement in a recent FBI search in Fulton County, Ga., “extremely unusual.” Gabbard was captured on camera by Reuters photographer Elijah Nouvelage talking on the phone next to a vehicle filled with packed boxes. Castro, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on…

Senior administration officials had quickly seized on Saturday’s fatal shooting in Minnesota as an opportunity to blame the victim.

President Trump will sign an executive order Thursday that aims to coordinate a federal plan to combat drug addiction and substance abuse. The “White House Great American Recovery Initiative” will advise federal agencies to issue grants in support of addiction recovery and education, according to the fact sheet obtained by CBS News. The panel will…

The president’s latest attempt to sidestep the international organization has inadvertently led to major world powers recommitting their support for the U.N.

The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced part of a key cryptocurrency bill Thursday without Democratic support. The panel voted 12-11 along party lines to advance its portion of the market structure legislation, which aims to clearly divide oversight of crypto markets between two financial regulators. The vote marks a major step forward for the bill in…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed charges against the man who attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) at a recent press conference, The Associated Press reported.  Anthony Kazmierczak, a 55-year-old man, has been charged with forcibly assaulting, opposing, impeding and intimidating Omar after he sprayed the Minnesota congresswoman with a mixture of water and apple…

Several companies have pledged to match the federal government’s $1,000 deposits in the “Trump Accounts” for the children of employees.  The Treasury Department is contributing $1,000 to the accounts of children born between Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2028. Employers of the child or their parent can contribute up to $2,500 per year to…

“Definitely took a few seconds for my brain to lock onto what exactly I was looking at here,” one social media user admitted.

President Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday praised their conversation over the phone, with both referring to it as “productive” as the administration looks to extend its reach across Latin America. “We had a productive and cordial conversation with the President of the United States, Donald Trump,” Sheinbaum said according to a translated…

Commercial air space over Venezuela is set to reopen soon, allowing U.S. citizens to travel to the South American nation, President Trump announced Wednesday. “I just spoke to the President of Venezuela, informed her that we’re going to be opening up all commercial airspace over Venezuela,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. “American…

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) criticized Vice President Vance Thursday morning, calling comments he made about the other senator from Illinois, Tammy Duckworth (D), “low.” “I have learned over many years in office that politics ain’t beanbag. But JD Vance’s attack and insult of my colleague, Tammy Duckworth, is low and beneath the dignity of a…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that House Democrats are poised to launch impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem if President Trump doesn’t remove her from power “immediately.” “She’s got to go — we are dead serious,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “She needs to be put on ice permanently.”…
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“No knight in shining armor is coming to save democracy. We’re the ones who will have to save our democracy and our rights,” Clinton wrote in her annual letter to the philanthropic community.

“Georgia’s a blueprint,” said Kristin Nabers of the left-leaning group All Voting Is Local.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) will give remarks Thursday at the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., as his home state reels in the wake of two fatal shootings at the hands of immigration enforcement officials. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who has defended the officers and agents involved in…

Fulton County, Ga., Chair Robb Pitts on Thursday said county election officials have nothing to hide after the FBI retrieved boxes of 2020 election data, including ballots, during the execution of a search warrant. “We in Fulton County have nothing, nothing, nothing to hide,” Pitts said at a press conference in Atlanta. “And finally, and…
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“We need real change,” the two-time national champion coach wrote.

President Trump revealed Thursday that he will be announcing his pick to chair the Federal Reserve “sometime next week.”   “We are going to be announcing the head of the Fed, who that will be,” Trump said at his monthly Cabinet meeting at the White House. “It will be a person that will, I think, do…

Iran is preparing live fire drills in the Strait of Hormuz following tensions ratcheting up between Tehran and the U.S., according to Iranian state media. In a post Thursday on social platform X, Iranian state television’s English-language arm Press TV said that naval forces with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “will carry out live-fire exercises…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acted unlawfully when she lifted deportation protections for Venezuela and Haiti, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled late Wednesday. A concurring opinion noted that both Noem and President Trump repeatedly made statements that “were overtly founded on racist stereotyping based on country of origin,” agreeing…

A top aide for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) dismissed a Wednesday report that the senator was upset with the White House over not getting a chance to take a photo with Nicki Minaj. Macarena Martinez, Cruz’s communications director, posted a photo on social platform X of Cruz, White House adviser Alex Bruesewitz and Minaj. Politico’s…

Trump said, “American citizens will be very shortly able to go to Venezuela, and they’ll be safe there.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said Wednesday that President Trump compared his federal immigration crackdown in the North Star State to the U.S. military operation in Venezuela that ousted President Nicolás Maduro. “He told me that he doesn’t understand what’s wrong with Minnesota,” Walz told MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff, recalling his call with Trump on Monday….