A $2.2 billion solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, built with massive federal backing during the Obama administration, continues to burn through taxpayer and ratepayer money more than a decade after it opened, even as both the Trump and Biden administrations, the plant's own…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on May 1 that sharply escalates U.S. economic pressure on the Cuban government, authorizing the Treasury Department to freeze the assets of Cuban officials and their adult family members, bar them from entering the United States, and punish…
Republican governors in Alabama and Tennessee called their state legislatures back for special sessions next week, moving within days of a Supreme Court decision that narrowed the reach of the Voting Rights Act and opened the door for states to redraw congressional maps ahead of…
President Donald Trump told CBS News correspondent Norah O'Donnell that he may have complicated the Secret Service's effort to get him out of the Washington Hilton Hotel on Saturday night, saying he paused to assess the situation after shots rang out at the White House…
President Donald Trump singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar at a rally in The Villages, Florida, calling the Minnesota Democrat a symbol of the kind of corruption his administration says it is rooting out of federal benefit programs, and mocking the idea that a lawmaker from…
Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia have revived a separate investigation into whether former FBI Director James Comey leaked classified information, a move that could result in the Trump Justice Department's third indictment of Comey since last fall, Breitbart reported, citing Bloomberg Law.…
At least a half-dozen House Republicans told reporters they would vote against a bipartisan Senate bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, then reversed themselves Thursday and voted yes, sending the legislation to President Donald Trump's desk. Trump signed it that afternoon,…
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday struck down the Trump administration's freeze on immigration applications for citizens of countries covered by the president's travel ban, granting an injunction and declaring the policy unlawful. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, an appointee of former President Biden,…
The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to let food stamp recipients buy rotisserie chickens with their benefits. The final count was 384-35. Among the 35 who voted no: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and two other New York Democrats, as Gothamist reported. The bill in…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul are demanding answers after reports that the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good during a January operation in Minneapolis has been reinstated and quietly transferred to another state. The Democratic outcry, framed around accountability, doubles…
George Clooney used a Hollywood awards ceremony this week to deliver a politically charged speech against President Donald Trump and his administration, then closed his remarks by calling on Americans to "truly make America great again," borrowing the president's own signature phrase in the process.…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday blocked the online sale and mail delivery of the abortion drug mifepristone, temporarily restoring in-person screening requirements the FDA stripped away in 2023, a ruling that could reshape abortion access across all 50 states.…
Turning Point USA hit back Friday at Vivian Kubrick, the daughter of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, after she took to X to disparage Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk, calling a pre-recorded video address by the grieving CEO "ghastly" and "inauthentic."…
The House on Thursday approved legislation to restore funding to most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending a record 76-day partial shutdown that left tens of thousands of federal employees working without guaranteed paychecks. The catch: the bill specifically zeroes out money for Immigration…
