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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…

A trio of Senate Democrats are warning the consumer credit reporting agency Equifax against price gouging for its services as a significant number of Medicaid beneficiaries are expected to go into the job market to find employment in order to keep receiving benefits under the new requirements passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act…

A woman accused in an alleged scheme to assassinate President Donald Trump made a court appearance in Jackson County, West Virginia Monday.

House Republicans could end the partial government shutdown on Tuesday, as the lower chamber gears up for votes on a five-bill minibus and a two-week continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A razor-thin margin and Democrats’ refusal to fast-track the funding package put House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his conference…

In recent days, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has continued poking at the U.S. president, calling Trump an “accomplice to genocide” in the Gaza Strip.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard participated in the FBI’s recent search of a Georgia election center at the request of President Trump, she told members of Congress in a Monday letter. Last week, Gabbard was captured on camera by a Reuters photographer near the election office in Fulton County, Ga., where she was seen…

The professor of history at New York University described the phenomenon as “autocratic backfire.”

“Otherwise, no one would have known where I was,” the former CNN anchor told Jimmy Kimmel.

The “Late Show” host said this moment probably led to a “tough announcement.”

The late night host made a backhanded promise to the president and the first lady. 

The “Daily Show” host said he was offended by an appearance in the newly released files. 

The former Trump White House press secretary’s secondhand anecdote raised eyebrows.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s comments on Fox News were slammed on social media. 

Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas), a former Harris County, Texas, attorney, was sworn in as a member of the House on Monday after winning the special election runoff for the late Rep. Sylvester Turner’s (D-Texas) seat last week. “It’s been more than 330 days since the people of the 18th Congressional District had representation, had a…

Right-wingers think musicians got too political at the award ceremony. But experts in political science and public humanities make this damning point.

Members of the Kennedy family say the president’s actions are meant to distract from his many other transgressions.   

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Monday said the process of funding the government will “be a clown circus for a few days” amid a partial government shutdown. “I think that by the end of the week, the House and the Senate will have passed 11 of the 12 appropriations bills. Now, it’ll be a bumpy…