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Education Secretary Linda McMahon will testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday morning on the department’s fiscal 2026 budget. The hearing comes as the Trump administration has made moves to dismantle the Education Department…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is testifying Wednesday morning before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the State Department’s 2026 posture. Rubio, who defended the Trump administration’s foreign policy at a Senate hearing Tuesday, has…
The Chicago Sun-Times apologized on Tuesday publishing an artificial intelligence-generated summer reading recommendation list that included books that do not exist. The AI list was published online and in print over the weekend, with readers…
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) doubled down Tuesday on blaming progressive politics for the escape of 10 New Orleans jail inmates. Half of the escapees remained at large as of Wednesday morning after a fifth…
President Trump has spent every day since “Liberation Day” trapped in an endless economic nightmare of his own creation. The fallout from his disastrous tariff policy sent the nation’s GDP tumbling 0.3 percent, and sent…
House Democrats plan to unveil legislation Wednesday protecting the ability of transgender people to serve openly in the military as President Trump’s administration works to remove them. The “Fit to Serve Act” would prohibit the…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is slated to meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage the fraught relationship between the two countries. Ramaphosa pushed for the meeting…
In the middle of the night on April 14 — the second day of Passover — anti-Israel activists vandalized the sign marking Northwestern’s Kresge Centennial Hall, writing “Death to Israel” in red and calling for an “Intifada.”…
A key committee meeting on the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” is dragging into the daylight on Wednesday, as Democrats needle Republicans on the contents of the sprawling package and GOP lawmakers wait to review leadership’s…
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) took to social media Tuesday to ask for political contributions after President Trump labeled him a “grandstander” for opposing the GOP’s tax-and-spending megabill — which the lawmaker argued will add to…
The House Rules Committee started debating the “big, beautiful bill” at 1 a.m. Wednesday and is still going, seeking consensus from the Republican factions that want their conditions met. President Trump’s attendance Tuesday morning seems…
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a resolution this week calling for the return of abducted Ukrainian children from Russia before any peace agreement is finalized over ending the war against Ukraine. While the resolution…
Rep. Gerry Connolly, a fiery Virginia Democrat with decades of experience on Capitol Hill, passed away on Wednesday morning after a short battle with cancer, his family announced. Connolly, 75, was a familiar figure around…
Lee Zeldin, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is slated to go before a Senate panel today to try and defend the indefensible: taking the nation’s environmental guardian off the beat. That’s what the…
When Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced his plan to reorganize the State Department, he said the department was plagued by ineffective and inefficient diplomacy and soaring costs, and that he intended to target programs…
More than 1.1 million Americans died from COVID-19 — a figure higher than any war in U.S. history. Millions of families were denied the final moments with loved ones, watching parents, spouses and children slip…
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The House Rules Committee came together early Wednesday to consider the GOP-led “big, beautiful” spending bill filled with President Trump’s legislative priorities. There have been two major hurdles to advancing the legislation: the State and…
The song and dance surrounding the so-called Russia-Ukraine negotiations in Istanbul produced nothing substantive — as could easily have been predicted. It was arguably a waste of time and resources. But the charade did have…