President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee Pentagon spending was confronted over the $3.2 billion in defense contracts tied to his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump since he took office.Acting Pentagon Comptroller Jules W. Hurst III faced the confrontation Tuesday at his Senate Armed Services Commi…
The Supreme Court’s just-completed term was so extreme that even its apparent wins for democracy can’t redeem it, according to civil rights litigator Sherrilyn Ifill, because the real story is how the justices reached the outcomesthe outcomes.Speaking on Slate’s Amicus podcast during the show’s annu…
ICE has suspended traffic stops after two recent fatal shootings in a “huge reversal” of its previous policy, CNN immigration correspondent Priscilla Alvarez reported Tuesday. The move comes after ICE fatally shot two men this week in Biddeford, Maine, and last week in Houston, Texas, both during ve…
A Republican lawmaker apparently frustrated over getting left out was ready to get even, according to reports.Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN) was defiant during the House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday and said “she was the whipping NO on the budget resolution,” reported Jake Sherman, founder of …
A decision by Donald Trump to use a Thursday night address to the nation to relitigate the results of the 2020 election, where he lost, was greeted with amusement and disbelief on MS NOW on Tuesday morning.After the president teased his plan to address the nation on social media, it was reported tha…
Critics zeroed in on photos of tire tracks scarring the floor of the newly drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where the presidential motorcade drove weeks earlier.President Donald Trump drained the pool Monday, insisting vandals had left a 300-yard gash in its lining. But reporters and on-the…
While the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spent his final days aggressively pushing for the United States to impose stricter sanctions on Russia, President Donald Trump has instead said passing a cryptocurrency bill would be the best way to “honor” Graham’s legacy, making even a staunch Trump ally w…
House Republicans are in yet another internal civil war, this time over a plan to hand over $70 billion to the Department of Defense without paying for it in cuts elsewhere.According to Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News, this proposal would potentially “avoid a war with the moderates,” many of whom are…
President Donald Trump’s permanent nominee to head up the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is facing a new problem.According to HuffPost, Jay Clayton, who currently heads up the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, is now coming under fire for his role in the …
The White House released its long-delayed counterterrorism strategy in May, identifying “violent left-wing extremists” as a major terror threat, following a directive from President Donald Trump last September ordering the FBI to investigate antifascists based on a wildly varied set of characteristi…