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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
