Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) sharply questioned Education Secretary Linda McMahon during a Wednesday House hearing about the department’s actions against diversity, equity and inclusion, alleging the federal agency is “taking its lead from Jim Crow.” …
A top House Democrat is needling Republicans who helped pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through the lower chamber last month, but have since voiced regrets upon learning of certain provisions they didn’t know were…
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President Trump on Wednesday said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the aftermath of a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bombers and amid a stalled push for an end to the war in…
Slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk was a political appointee for the city of San Francisco, where he enacted policy geared towards improving conditions for LGBTQ community members and working mothers. Early life Harvey was…
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is warning that the House-passed budget reconciliation bill will cause energy prices to increase by 10 percent because it will “kill” clean energy programs around the country, increasing the…
As an immigrant from Quito, Ecuador, my dream as a child was to study abroad — a dream that came true in 1999, when I came to Nashville, Tennessee, as a high school exchange student.…
(WJW) – A Texas woman has died after contracting a rare infection from a brain-eating amoeba while using tap water to clear out her sinuses at an RV campground, according to a recent report. The…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that President Trump is “not delighted” with Elon Musk’s shift to oppose the megabill of the president’s tax cut and spending priorities, saying that the billionaire tech mogul had…
Nearly 11 million people would lose health insurance under the House Republican tax bill, mostly due to cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The…
Democrats aren’t engaged enough online in non-election years, and Republicans’ digital advantage gave the right a leg up in 2024, new research shows. A report from Tech for Campaigns, a pro-Democrat nonprofit focused on commercial…
The Trump administration is acting to keep international students from enrolling at Harvard. In addition, it is targeting all visa holders at the university, with the possibility that many must return to their home countries. So…
Tip screens are everywhere now, and many consumers are fed up. According to a new Bankrate survey, 41 percent of Americans say tipping culture has gotten out of control — up 6 percentage points from…
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a Wednesday interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s behavior is growing increasingly “desperate” as his war against Ukraine continues three years after Russia’s attempted takeover of its…
(NEXSTAR/KTLA) – English pop singer Jessie J, known for songs including “Price Tag” and “Bang Bang,” has been diagnosed with breast cancer, she revealed in a video post to her 13.9 million Instagram followers on…
The 2016 Paris Climate Accord is more than a bad deal — it is a globalist straitjacket that President Trump has rightly called a “rip-off.” But even though Trump has pulled America out of it…
The governing coalition in the Netherlands collapsed Tuesday after Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders withdrew his populist Party for Freedom (PVV)’s ministers — escalating an ongoing dispute over the country’s immigration and asylum policies. “I…
President Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller defended the House-approved GOP spending bill in a series of posts online Tuesday. The affectionately labeled “big, beautiful bill” has faced a chorus of criticism from Democrats…
(WJW) – A public health alert has been issued for organic ground beef products that reportedly could be contaminated with E. coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced. The…
The top two congressional Republicans rebutted Elon Musk’s criticism of their “big, beautiful bill” Wednesday as the tech mogul and former Trump administration cost-cutter continued attacking the GOP legislation overnight. Speaker Mike Johnson spent several…