Politics

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said her city needs to "add hundreds more police" as the Trump administration’s federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department is winding down. Bowser made the admission Wednesday while announcing "a new labor agreement between the District of Columbia and the DC Fraternal Order of the Police" aimed at bolstering officer retention and recruitment.  "Since I have been mayor, in the last ten years, it has been […]

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is expanding the number of schools that can participate in a fast-tracked air traffic control training program, as the administration seeks more ways to address the nationwide air traffic controller shortage amid recent control tower mishaps and crashes. While the Federal Aviation Administration is suffering a shortage of roughly 3,000 air traffic controllers in the U.S., the Trump administration has added schools to a program that […]

President Donald Trump’s United States Attorney General Pam Bondi is moving to block a controversial Illinois law recently signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker extending student financial aid, including in-state tuition rates and scholarships, to illegal immigrants.  In a Tuesday statement, the Justice Department announced it had filed a complaint in the Southern District of Illinois against the state, Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, also a Democrat, as well as the […]

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., allowed a Biden-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to keep her job, at least for now, as part of a lawsuit centered on President Donald Trump’s authority to remove members of independent agencies without cause.In a 2-1 order, a three-judge panel agreed with a lower court that Trump unlawfully fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and that her firing was squarely […]

The House Oversight Committee released a tranche of thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's case on Tuesday night.The surprise file dump came ahead of an expected House-wide vote to formalize the committee's Epstein inquiry on Wednesday afternoon.That vote, while largely symbolic, would also direct the House Oversight Committee to release the Epstein files sent by the Department of Justice (DOJ).Nearly 34,000 pages are being released that include the DOJ's […]

The Senate teed up a colossal package to authorize funding for the Pentagon on Tuesday, marking the first legislation to hit the floor since lawmakers returned from August recess.Lawmakers advanced the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on a largely bipartisan 84 to 14 vote, setting up the bill for debate before a later vote to advance it from the Senate.This year’s version of the bill isn’t as […]

Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson on Monday announced her bid for the U.S. Senate, in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Joni Ernst."I am running for the United States Senate," Hinson said in an appearance on a popular afternoon talk radio program in Iowa.Hinson – a former TV news anchor who is in her third term representing Iowa's 2nd Congressional District, which covers the northeastern portion of the state – […]

A legal fight over public school bathrooms and transgender students is now in the hands of the Supreme Court, where South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson believes it will be a "death knell" for what he calls the "radical, hard-left agenda."South Carolina asked the Supreme Court to pause a federal appeals court order granting one transgender high school student access to boys’ bathrooms, a move the state says clashes with […]

A federal district court wrongfully blocked President Donald Trump's administration from temporarily withholding billions of dollars in climate grants, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.The District Court for Washington, D.C. granted an injunction blocking the Trump administration from withholding $16 billion in climate grants. Tuesday's ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court finds that the lower court overstepped its authority in doing so, and that Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was […]