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…
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 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…
President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to serve as the next surgeon general of the United States, moving within minutes of announcing he was withdrawing the stalled nomination of Dr. Casey Means, his second pick for the post and a favorite…
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.…
The House Ethics Committee has launched an investigation into Rep. Chuck Edwards, the Republican congressman representing Western North Carolina, over allegations of sexual harassment, according to a report citing multiple news outlets. Axios first reported the probe on Thursday, and CNN followed with additional details,…
Barry Christian, a 54-year-old Republican running for the Oklahoma State Senate, was found dead inside his truck in a remote wildlife area two days after he was reported missing, and authorities say the circumstances of his death remain unknown. Beckham County deputies discovered Christian's 2024…
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.…
Barry Christian, a 54-year-old Republican running for the Oklahoma State Senate, was found dead inside his pickup truck in a remote wildlife area two days after he was reported missing, and investigators still have no public explanation for how he died. Beckham County deputies discovered…
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…
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,…
President Trump told a reporter Friday that he would consider appointing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to a cabinet position next year, a striking signal of reconciliation between two Republicans who traded sharp blows during the 2024 presidential primary. The New York Post reported that Trump,…
An Arkansas judge ordered Hunter Biden to turn over his tax records and sit for a deposition in a reopened child support battle with Lunden Roberts, the mother of his 7-year-old daughter Navy Joan, a ruling that could force the 56-year-old former first son to…
A note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein weeks before his August 2019 death has sat locked in a New York courthouse vault for nearly seven years, sealed as part of his former cellmate's criminal case and never reviewed by the investigators who scrutinized how the…
