Politics

Congress has officially passed President Donald Trump’s "one big, beautiful bill" on Thursday afternoon after back-to-back sleepless sessions for both the House and Senate.The massive agenda bill now goes to Trump’s desk to be signed into law just in time for Republicans’ self-imposed Fourth of July deadline.The bill – which advances Trump’s policies on tax, the border, defense, energy and the national debt – narrowly passed the House of Representatives […]

President Donald Trump is set to deliver a patriotic speech in Iowa to kick off not only the 4th of July weekend, but also a year of celebrations focused on the U.S.' 250 years of independence. America250, a bipartisan commission of private citizens and lawmakers planning celebrations surrounding the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, announced in June that Trump was slated to travel to the Iowa […]

The Senate’s version of the "one big, beautiful bill" includes a tiny, 1% tax on international cash transfers — called a remittance tax — which, according to experts, will have a major impact on immigrants working in the U.S.A remittance is a money transfer to another country outside the U.S., which is a common practice among immigrant workers who send part of their wages back to family in their native […]

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court on Wednesday, seeking to overturn lower court rulings that blocked the administration from firing three Biden-appointed regulators.The emergency appeal asks the High Court to allow the Trump administration to fire three members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), a five-member independent regulatory board that sets standards and oversees safety for thousands of consumer products. The […]

A Biden-appointed federal judge on Tuesday stepped in to halt the Trump administration's efforts to dramatically reorganize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after 19 Democratic attorneys general sued to stop the reforms. HHS announced in March it would be laying off around 20,000 full-time agency employees, while also reducing the number of regional offices across the country and consolidating several HHS divisions. A fact sheet from HHS about […]

Former President George W. Bush joined up with former President Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono to comfort United States Agency for International Development employees Monday, while also taking shots at President Donald Trump and his administration for shuttering the agency plagued by accusations of fraud and abuse. "Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy," Obama said in a video that was shown to departing USAID employees Monday, according […]

MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton has called on Andrew Cuomo to drop out of the New York City mayoral race, urging the former governor to consider what would be in the best interest of New York City residents."I think Andrew Cuomo should look at what is best for the city and let them have a one-on-one race," Sharpton said on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ on Wednesday.SCANDAL-PLAGUED FORMER GOV ANDREW CUOMO AIMS […]

Former CIA Director John Brennan, who served under former President Barack Obama, pushed for the so-called "Steele dossier," which featured salacious material and unfounded allegations about President Donald Trump's connections to Russia, to be included in an assessment evaluating Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to a review declassified Wednesday. The CIA, FBI and National Security Agency's Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) evaluating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election diverted […]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court's newly elected liberal majority on Wednesday voted to strike down a near-total state abortion ban, voting 4-3 to overturn the stringent, 176-year-old law. The decision reflected a deeply partisan split, with all four liberal justices voting to invalidate the 1849 abortion law and the three conservative justices dissenting.It also crystallized the impact of the state's Supreme Court election earlier this year that raked in millions of dollars in […]