House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was rushing to the White House to “unsnarl the knot” on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump canceled signing a bipartisan housing bill and signaled it was “leverage” to pressure Republicans to pass his elections legislation, according to The Washington…
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Elon Musk told voters they had a random shot at $1 million. Now a judge has ordered him to answer for it under oath.U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower in Austin ordered Musk to sit for a deposition — sworn, on-the-record questioning by opposing lawyers — in a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona …
President Trump claimed a “fantastic” turnout at the kickoff rally for the Great American State Fair on the National Mall Wednesday night, a figure that sharply diverges from independent estimates of the crowd size.A widely shared video clip shows a steady stream of people walking away from the stag…
Disgusting, vile, repugnant, supremacists.I can think of more attributes along these lines to describe the six conservative justices, who handed down three rulings today that, taken together, reveal the naked, ugly face of what this court has become – disgusting, vile, repugnant supremacists. All we…
President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Italy has angered residents of his host country with plans to bring his $450 million superyacht to Venice during one of the city’s most significant annual festivals, in a trip he has branded “coastal diplomacy.”Billionaire Tilman Fertitta, a hospitality mogul w…
In her dissent from one of the Thursday Supreme Court decisions on immigrant rights, Justice Elena Kagan made sure Donald Trump’s litany of racist remarks would be a forever part of the court’s historical record.The liberal justice used her dissent in a case where the conservative majority gave the …
MAGA followers rebuffed Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Thursday after he spoke out against the Trump administration following a Supreme Court ruling that ended temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians.Lawler wrote in a post on X that he thinks the situation in Haiti is a “humanitarian and pol…
House Republican leaders scrapped Friday’s scheduled votes as an internal party standoff threatened to derail the chamber’s legislative agenda, according to a notice sent to members Thursday.The impasse stemmed from GOP hard-liners blocking action over the stalled SAVE America Act, an elections bill…
A decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor to take 12 minutes of the court’s time on Thursday to read her dissent in a 6-3 ruling that makes it significantly harder for asylum seekers who traveled through Mexico and South America to enter the US provoked Justice Sam Alito to take an unseemly potshot at h…
WASHINGTON — Work in the U.S. House of Representatives has, once again, been ground to a halt by the far right wing of the Republican Party, as the Freedom Caucus joined President Donald Trump’s demand that no legislation moves until Senate Republicans pass his sweeping election reform measure, the …