The House is rushing to repeal a new law that lets senators sue the federal government for $500,000 if investigators secretly obtain their phone records, with a two-thirds vote expected under suspension Wednesday. The measure, slipped into last week’s shutdown-ending funding package, is retroactive to 2022 and could open suits...
Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democratic activist and former presidential candidate, jumped into California’s governor’s race Wednesday, centering his bid on affordability and a tougher line on corporations. He stoked speculation last month by putting $12 million behind Proposition 50, which passed and lets Democrats redraw the state’s congressional map. Steyer...
President Trump defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office when pressed about Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 killing, while the crown prince expressed regret. The visit produced deals for U.S. tank and F-35 sales and a Saudi pledge to invest $1 trillion, with many texts still unreleased. Congress...
New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Jessica Tisch will remain police commissioner, ending weeks of speculation and signaling continuity as crime falls and the department faces pressing challenges. In an email to officers, Tisch said she was asked to serve and agreed, calling the job "the greatest privilege of my...
Brussels has unveiled a package that loosens parts of the GDPR and delays elements of the AI Act, aiming to cut red tape and jolt growth. The plan would ease sharing of anonymized and pseudonymized data, permit AI training on personal data under GDPR safeguards, extend grace periods for high...
A government watchdog says most corporations donating to President Trump’s planned $300 million White House ballroom are represented by three lobbying firms, whose partners dined with the president and tech and crypto executives at a donor event in the East Room. Public Citizen and CBS News identify Ballard Partners, Miller...
President Trump said the U.S. military is attacking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific in response to fentanyl deaths, asserting the vessels come from Venezuela. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the mission as protecting the homeland from drugs. Since the antidrug campaign began in September, the military has destroyed...
James B. Comey’s lawyers will ask a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., to dismiss charges that he lied to and obstructed Congress, arguing the Justice Department bowed to President Trump’s push for political revenge. Led by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, they plan to recount how Mr. Trump, in an angry social...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday rejected U.S. military strikes on cartels, a day after President Donald Trump said he would do whatever we have to do to stop drugs. Her remarks followed a flap at Playa Bagdad, where men arrived by boat and posted Defense Department restricted area signs...
Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana cast the only no vote on a House bill to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, defying Speaker Mike Johnson’s expectation of unanimous Republican support. A senior Oversight Committee member and chair of its federal law enforcement panel, Higgins has backed the...
