The end of the current government shutdown is in sight on its fourth day after Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., managed to corral nearly all of his House GOP lawmakers to advance the legislation. The Senate’s federal funding deal survived an important hurdle late Tuesday morning, clearing a House-wide “rule vote” to allow for lawmakers to … Read more
House Republicans voted Tuesday to advance a government funding package to end the brief shutdown that began Saturday, putting it on track to pass the full chamber.
The total national death toll from Winter Storm Fern has risen to 85 as additional storms are expected to make landfall in the U.S. over the coming weeks. Mississippi took one of the hardest hits from the storm, with 23 killed in the Magnolia State, and tens of thousands still without power. Despite the storm … Read more
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be deposed by the House Oversight Committee at the end of this month. Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced Hillary Clinton will sit for a closed-door transcribed interview on Feb. 26, and Bill Clinton will appear on Feb. 27 under the same terms. … Read more
Scheduling and financial impasses at Vancouver’s World Cup stadium are leading down a road the league hasn’t traveled in over a decade On the surface, Vancouver Whitecaps CEO Axel Schuster’s press conference last week would have felt familiar to almost any North American sports fan. Once again, a team was agitating for more money or … Read more
A top Pennsylvania Democrat unloaded on antisemitic protesters who flooded Philadelphia’s iconic Rittenhouse Square over the weekend, saying that as an American Muslim he felt compelled to speak out. A group calling themselves the Philly Palestine Coalition amassed in the leafy square, spreading slogans like “Abu Obeida Lives” — in reference to the deceased Hamas … Read more
A Texas Democrat running for Senate is facing backlash over his comments about his former opponent. Morgan Thompson, a political influencer who posts on TikTok under the username @morga_tt, claimed that state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat, referred to former Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, as a “mediocre Black man.” Thompson, who is Black, said the … Read more
Roughly 15,000 Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio, were on the verge of being deported Tuesday as their Temporary Protective Status (TPS) was set to expire. A federal judge has now temporarily blocked the expiration, setting up a legal showdown with the Trump administration and thrusting the small city — which became the epicenter of the … Read more
A Republican candidate for governor in Florida announced on Monday that he launched a Tinder account so that he can campaign to young female voters in the Sunshine State. James Fishback, a 31-year-old investment firm CEO, shared his latest campaign move on X. “I’ve joined @Tinder to meet young female voters where they are, and … Read more
A look at the agency’s astonishing record of defying court orders, and what the judiciary might do to respond.
