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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are expected to meet with President Donald Trump on Tuesday. At Trump’s invitation, Netanyahu flew to Washington on Monday for Sen. Lindsey Graham’s funeral service, according to his office. Zelensky also plans to attend the service, CNBC reported. During their visits, both leaders will meet []...Click to read more
Utah Sen. Mike Lee is pressuring the Republican leadership to cancel or delay the upcoming August recess until the SAVE America Act is passed. The measure would require voters to prove their U.S. citizenship and provide a valid photo ID when registering, and it would restrict voting by mail. In a post on X, Lee []...Click to read more
New Yorkers will get access to sharply discounted items at the city’s future municipally-owned grocery stores, under a new initiative unveiled Monday by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani announced that the city is issuing a request for proposals from private operators to manage the day-to-day operations of five planned government grocery stores. He []...Click to read more
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to uphold an executive order placing restrictions on mail-in voting. A federal judge in Massachusetts issued an order on June 25 blocking the Trump administration from implementing mail-in ballot restrictions nationwide. Trump’s order would direct the Department of Homeland Security to compile “state citizenship lists.” []...Click to read more
ActBlue is facing scrutiny after a report last week raised questions about thousands of political donations made in the name of an 88-year-old Michigan woman. The story caught national attention after Michigan Enjoyer reporter Charlie LeDuff posted a video interviewing Elizabeth Waffle of Milan, Michigan. “I doubt it,” Waffle said when asked by LeDuff if []...Click to read more
First lady Melania Trump is kicking off this year’s White House Christmas season by opening applications for volunteers and performers, continuing the tradition of giving Americans the chance to help decorate the executive mansion and entertain visitors during the holidays. With Christmas less than five months away, President Donald Trump and the first lady have []...Click to read more
Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn said Monday he will oppose Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general unless the Trump administration rewrites a settlement agreement the president reached with the IRS – a stance that could derail the nomination ahead of a closely watched Senate Judiciary Committee vote scheduled for Thursday. Cornyn’s opposition, if it holds, []...Click to read more
During John Fetterman’s successful bid for U.S. Senate in 2022, he was a vocal critic of the upper chamber’s 60-vote threshold to advance legislation and called for the elimination of the filibuster. On Monday, he shifted gears, saying that he was “horribly wrong” for this position. “Halfway through my first term, I now recognize how []...Click to read more
The audio recordings of former President Joe Biden’s 2017 interview with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer were released Monday after the former president dropped his legal attempt to block it last week. A divided federal court last week denied Biden’s request for an injunction to block the release in a 2-1 split. The court’s majority determined Biden []...Click to read more
Just a few weeks before the first day of class, Howard University retracted the admission of 502 incoming freshmen, whom it says failed to pay tuition on time. Now, New York is opening up its public university system to affected students and offering 800 credits to offset non-refundable deposit costs. The would-be incoming Howard students []...Click to read more
