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…
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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 …
The Supreme Court’s conservative super majority on Thursday sided with the Trump administration in a 6-3 ruling, and in a sharp dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor described the consequences of turning away asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.Following the ruling in Markwayne Mullin, Secretary of …
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out the majority following a 7-2 Supreme Court ruling that sided with pesticide manufacturers and determined the EPA is the arbiter — not state courts — to decide on cancer warnings on labels.The ruling in Monsanto v. Durnell reversed the Missouri Court of Appeal…
CNN’s Harry Enten shrieked in mock terror at President Donald Trump’s abrupt about-face on signing a bipartisan affordable-housing bill to knuckle down on his bill to impose new restrictions on voting.The 80-year-old president caught lawmakers and staffers off guard by announcing just over an hour b…
The National Park Service refused to corroborate President Donald Trump’s claim of a 350-foot Reflecting Pool “gash” in a sworn court declaration filed this week.Frank Lands, the NPS’s deputy director for operations, submitted the two-page declaration in an ongoing federal lawsuit in the U.S. Distri…