|
The measure had no path forward in the Senate, where Democrats are all but certain to block it and Republicans have said they will not try to skirt filibuster rules to ram it through.
|
RELATED ARTICLES | | |
|
The hearing comes two days after the officials declined to answer questions from House members about the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
|
|
Senator John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro do not get along. The bad blood goes back years.
|
|
A crypto-backed super PAC plans to spend $1.5 million against Mr. Green, a member of the House Financial Services Committee who has expressed concerns about cryptocurrency.
|
RELATED ARTICLES | | |
|
As we continue to look at Wednesday's contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, we speak with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint, who walked out after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused her of supporting antisemitism. Balint, who is Jewish and whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, had just asked Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein — a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing.
"It was just heartbreaking to watch the attorney general act in this way, especially when survivors have waited, over the course of decades, for justice," Balint tells Democracy Now!
|
|
(Second column, 2nd story, link)
Related stories:
Troubling lack of coordination...
Party balloon mistaken for cartel drone?
Two Navy Ships Collide in Waters Near South America...
Drudge Report Feed needs your support! Become a Patron
|
|
Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation.
|
|
(Second column, 2nd story, link)
Related stories:
Pentagon-FAA dispute over lasers led to airspace closure...
Two Navy Ships Collide in Waters Near South America...
|
|
Immigration enforcement agencies have received tens of millions in funding for body camera programs, which the Trump administration proposed cutting — until recently.
|
|
A handful of House Republicans bucked leadership to oppose the administration's tariff policy, but GOP senators still fear speaking out on Epstein connections.
|
|
Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.
|
|
The program was meant to help hospitals provide for poor patients by offering drug savings. But critics say a Texas company has turned it into a big business, driving up costs for patients and insurers.
|
|
Leqaa Kordia, 33, of New Jersey, was hospitalized after hitting her head at a Texas detention center, her lawyer said. She was initially arrested during a 2024 protest at Columbia University.
|
|
President Donald Trump held a lengthy meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday at the White House, where the two leaders discussed ongoing nuclear talks with Iran. Trump has said he wants to reach a deal with Iran about the country's nuclear program, which Tehran insists is only for peaceful civilian purposes but which the U.S. and Israel claim is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran after the Iranian government crushed a wave of anti-government protests, killing thousands of people. The Pentagon is also reportedly preparing to move a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, raising pressure on Iran's leadership.
"What Netanyahu is seeking to do with this visit is to inject poison pills into the negotiations in order to ensure that they fail, and thereby set the stage for a new armed conflict with Iran," says Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani.
|
|
Her appearance comes as the department is under scrutiny over its handling of the Epstein files, its approach toward the shootings in Minneapolis and its move to prosecute six Democratic lawmakers.
|
|
Six Republicans joined nearly all Democrats to end the national emergency President Donald Trump had declared to impose tariffs on imports from Canada.
|
RELATED ARTICLES | | |
|
But Tehran remains adamant that its missile arsenal is nonnegotiable.
|
|
J.P. Cooney served as a top deputy to special counsel Jack Smith in two criminal prosecutions of Trump.
|
RELATED ARTICLES | | |
|
People familiar with the episode said the use of the technology was not coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials targeted what they thought was a drug cartel drone, but turned out to be a party balloon, they said.
|
|
Can Democrats win back working-class voters? These candidates are trying.
|
|
The attorney general lobbed insults when lawmakers questioned her decisions and portrayed the Justice Department as unfairly maligned by Democrats and Trump critics.
|
|
(First column, 16th story, link)
Related stories:
IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS...
Homeland Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms...
She bounced a $25 check in 2014. ICE tried to deport her...
|
|
A judge ruled that the Trump administration's plan to send the men to the nation's harshest prison rendered their attempts to challenge the transfer a "sham" process.
|
|
Even as he reversed course on excluding Democrats, the president repeatedly attacked a Republican governor who had planned to oversee the meeting.
|
RELATED ARTICLES | | |
|
(First column, 6th story, link)
Related stories:
Massie Accuses Bondi of 'Criminal Negligence'...
Hearing Goes Nuclear When Dem Leader Demands She Pipe Down...
Accuses Jewish member of anti-Semitism...
Refuses to apologize to victims: 'You washed-up LOSER'...
Trump Nemesis Drops New Info on Lutnick...
Queen loaned Andrew $16 MILLION to pay off Virginia Giuffre...
|
|
But Tehran remains adamant that its missile arsenal is nonnegotiable.
|
|
Mr. Netanyahu moved up a visit to Washington to discuss Mr. Trump's continuing negotiations over Iran's nuclear and weapons program, which Israel considers an existential threat.
|
|
Lawmakers say the Trump administration's secrecy around the funds parked in an overseas bank could lead to corruption, and that the arrangement skirts congressional oversight and the law.
|
RELATED ARTICLES | | |
|
We continue our conversation with Texas Congressmember Al Green as he plans to reintroduce impeachment proceedings against President Trump over "infusing his hate into policy." Green currently represents Texas's 9th Congressional District, which was recently redistricted by the Texas state Legislature in favor of Republican voters. He says his seat, which he has held for over two decades, was targeted for redistricting in part because of his opposition to Trump. Green is now running for reelection in Texas's neighboring 18th Congressional District.
|
|
The hearing comes more than two months after the Trump administration began its aggressive immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
|
|
We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has become the epicenter of the government's immigration crackdown in the city. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled and had a brain injury, but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation. "I was taken out of that place unconscious," says Rahman, who describes lasting injuries and trauma from her detention. Rahman was not charged with any crime. "What I saw in that detention center was truly horrific."
We also speak with attorney Alexa Van Brunt, director of the Illinois office of the MacArthur Justice Center, who says victims of ICE violence like Rahman can sue the federal government for violating their rights, "but they cannot sue the officers in their individual capacity."
|
|
Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to accountability measures to rein in personnel from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies.
|
|
