Politics

(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that a new court ruling in Arizona upholding a near-total ban on abortion in the state, based on a 19th-century law, had gone too far and “needs to be straightened out.” It was the latest example of how the 2024 candidate is now trying to balance […]

(WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign says it has ended its contract with a consultant who was seen on video encouraging people to vote for him in order to get “rid of Biden” even if that means electing former President Donald Trump. Campaign manager Amaryllis Fox announced the decision in a post […]

(WASHINGTON) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday addressed a joint meeting of Congress, where he praised U.S. leadership on the world stage as “indispensable.” Kishida is in Washington this week as the U.S. looks to strengthen relationships with allies in the Indo-Pacific amid the mutual threat from China, North Korea and Russia. During […]

(WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that the DHS has a “perennially insufficient budget” and pushed for each agency to receive needed funds, including efforts to secure the southern border, he testified before two different congressional committees on Wednesday. Mayorkas, who the House voted to impeach in February over his handling of the […]

(WASHINGTON) — A key procedural vote on a bill to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed on the House floor on Wednesday, another sign of Republican infighting under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership. Nineteen Republicans broke ranks with party leadership and voted against the measure, despite urging from Johnson that the legislation reformed the FISA […]

(WASHINGTON) — Less than a year after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a public health advisory calling attention to a crisis of loneliness, isolation and lack of connection across the country, Rep. Jamaal Bowman says he was spurred on to call for more funding for the next generation of mental health providers — particularly […]

(WASHINGTON) — Even as U.S. officials applaud Israel’s initial steps to address dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza, the Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are still openly at odds over Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah — a military operation American diplomats and experts say would have devastating consequences for civilians sheltering in the […]

(WASHINGTON) — Arizona Republicans on Wednesday blocked efforts to move forward on a bill to repeal a near-total abortion ban in the state that dates to 1864, which the Arizona Supreme Court ruled this week is enforceable. Despite many members in their own party calling for an end to the law, GOP leaders in the […]

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifying during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the “Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment” in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Mar. 11, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) FBI Director Christopher Wray is set to warn Congress on Thursday of his concerns over potential bad actors […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Thursday announced they are closing what is often known as the “gun show loophole,” by tightening up the definition of what it means to be “engaged in the business” of selling firearms. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has just implemented a change in the federal register […]