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Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Shares in Donald Trump’s social media company sank in morning trading on Wednesday, a day after the company filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could allow the president’s [Read More…]
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ arrives as he gambles big on risky tariff policy
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday will unveil in the White House Rose Garden what are expected to be broad-based “reciprocal tariffs” on imports as part of his “America First” agenda. It’s a [Read More…]
Mayor Eric Adams’ case dismissed with prejudice despite Trump admin’s request to allow for later prosecution
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday dismissed corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams, but not in the way the Trump administration wanted. Judge Dale Ho dismissed the case with [Read More…]
Trump Media filing opens door for president to sell $2B in stock
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s social media company on Monday filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could allow the president’s trust to sell more than $2 billion of shares. Trump Media and [Read More…]
Democrat Kamlager-Dove takes aim at DOGE ahead of potential State Department cuts
Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn (WASHINGTON) — As Democrats continue to express frustrations over Elon Musk’s outsized role in reshaping the federal bureaucracy, a new effort on Capitol Hill takes aim at the Department of [Read More…]
Elizabeth Warren launches campaign to investigate Department of Education closure: ‘I will fight it with everything I’ve got’
Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is launching a “Save Our Schools” campaign on Wednesday against President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s attempt to dismantle the Department of [Read More…]
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ arrives as he gambles big on risky tariff policy
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday will unveil in the White House Rose Garden what are expected to be broad-based “reciprocal tariffs” on imports as part of his “America First” agenda. [Read More…]
Over 1,900 researchers describe ‘assault’ on science by White House: ‘We see real danger’
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to President Donald Trump’s administration, calling for a stop to its “assault” on science. The letter was signed [Read More…]
Cory Booker broke a record with his 25-hour Senate floor speech. How did he prepare to do it?
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After creating history by smashing the record for the longest Senate speech in history, Sen. Cory Booker told reporters as he walked off the floor that he was achy and [Read More…]
Civil rights groups sue Trump over executive order requiring citizenship proof in registering to vote
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Civil rights groups, including the NAACP, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s effort to overhaul the election system. The executive order, which Trump signed on March [Read More…]
Mass layoffs begin at HHS, some employees turned away after showing up to work
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services began to receive notices of mass layoffs on Tuesday, days after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 people [Read More…]
‘Made up emergency’: Democrats try to block Trump tariffs on Canada
Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on the Senate to keep the United States’ tariffs on Canada in place — hours before Democrats in the upper chamber could [Read More…]
Melania Trump honors women who bring ‘progress for all of humanity’
Pool via ABC News (WASHINGTON) — First lady Melania Trump honored women from around the world during an award ceremony at the State Department, calling the eight honorees’ love “a powerful catalyst” for their work [Read More…]
Rule to block Rep. Luna’s plan for proxy voting for new parents fails in House
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House voted on Tuesday to reject a rule that would have blocked Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s bipartisan discharge petition to allow proxy voting for new [Read More…]
Mass layoffs begin at HHS with far-reaching impacts on public health
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services began to receive notices of mass layoffs on Tuesday, days after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 people [Read More…]
Trump nominee to be top general denies wearing MAGA hat
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied on Tuesday that he has ever worn a [Read More…]
Booker stages Senate filibuster to protest ‘crisis’ he says Trump and Musk created
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday morning was still speaking on the Senate floor, staging a filibuster he started at 7 p.m. Monday night, in what he called [Read More…]
Democrats renew push to expand IVF access for military service members
Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional Democrats are renewing their push to expand in vitro fertilization access for military service members by introducing legislation that would require the Department of Defense’s health care program to [Read More…]
GOP eyes its House majority in special elections in Florida to replace Waltz, Gaetz
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, FL) — A pair of special elections in Florida for the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to fill vacancies left by former Republican Reps. Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz has [Read More…]
Wisconsin Supreme Court election that broke spending records could serve as litmus test for Trump, Musk
Scott Olson/Getty Images (MADISON, WI) — Voters head to the polls on Tuesday in Wisconsin for a hot-button race that could offer a barometer on how Americans are feeling at this point in President Donald [Read More…]