President Trump lashed out at air traffic controllers who called out during the government shutdown, warning of docking pay and no severance, while praising those who stayed on duty as 'GREAT PATRIOTS' and proposing $10,000 bonuses. The union said controllers have worked unpaid for over 40 days amid a preexisting...
President Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion over a documentary his lawyer says used 'malicious, disparaging' edits to his Jan. 6, 2021 speech. A letter by attorney Alejandro Brito demanded a full retraction, an apology and compensation, setting a Friday 5 p.m. deadline before filing suit. The...
Democrats erupted after party leaders agreed to reopen the government without securing an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, focusing their anger on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Although Schumer opposed the deal, progressives like Reps. Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan, as well as Senate hopefuls Zach Wahls and...
Eight Senate caucus members who joined Republicans to pass a stopgap funding bill won’t face voters next year. The Senate approved the measure 60–40, reopening the government through January 30 with back pay for furloughed workers but without reversing Medicaid cuts or extending ACA subsidies. GOP leader John Thune pledged...
The Trump administration said Monday it will return to the Supreme Court to stop full funding for SNAP, hours after an appeals court refused to block a lower court’s order to pay benefits in full to about 42 million recipients. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the emergency request would...
Stefany Shaheen, running for a New Hampshire House seat on a health care platform, split with her mother, senator Jeanne Shaheen, over a deal to end the government shutdown that lacked an extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits. The younger Shaheen said their approaches differ and insisted, “Otherwise, no...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named 74-year-old budget veteran Dean Fuleihan his first deputy mayor, the incoming administration’s first major hire as it eyes more than $10 billion in socialist proposals amid a nearly $5 billion gap. Fuleihan, a former de Blasio first deputy and budget director who advised Mamdani, won praise...
House Speaker Mike Johnson urged members to return to Washington so the House can vote quickly on a Senate deal to end the longest U.S. government shutdown in history, which began Oct. 1. A day after senators narrowly advanced the first stage, he said votes are expected this week and...
The Supreme Court declined to hear former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’s appeal, leaving intact its 2015 ruling recognizing a constitutional right to same sex marriage after fears the conservative court might revisit it. The justices offered no explanation. Davis, who refused to issue licenses after Obergefell v. Hodges, faces about...
Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for one billion dollars, deepening a crisis at the broadcaster a day after Director General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness resigned amid scrutiny of its impartiality. A legal letter set a Friday deadline for retractions over coverage of Trump’s Jan. 6...
