Republican Rep. Thomas Massie moved Tuesday to force a House vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, filing eight articles that accuse one of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet officials of violating federal war powers law over the Iran war and abusing the Pentagon’s authority in several other military operations.Massie introduced... Read More »
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into Donald Trump Jr.’s relationship with a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin after reporting found he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the president’s son’s wedding celebrations in the Bahamas.Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee’s ranking Democrat,... Read More »
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Monday from imposing new limits on how long foreign students, exchange visitors and journalists can remain in the United States, stopping the immigration rule one day before it was scheduled to take effect.U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Massachusetts postponed the... Read More »
President Donald Trump’s push to impose new nationwide mail-in ballot rules before the 2026 midterms suffered two setbacks in less than 24 hours, with a second federal judge blocking the U.S. Postal Service plan Sunday and the Supreme Court rejecting the administration’s emergency bid to revive it Monday.The Supreme Court... Read More »
Sen. Mitch McConnell returned to the U.S. Senate on Monday after a 92-day absence, casting his first floor vote since June after missing 60 votes and spending much of the summer recovering from a fall that left him hospitalized.The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican arrived in a wheelchair on September 14 and... Read More »
Longtime Republican voters in Texas’ Big Bend region say President Donald Trump’s border wall push could drive them to vote Democratic in November, as federal officials seek access to private ranches and warn landowners that property could be acquired through eminent domain.Some residents who have traditionally backed Republicans told MS... Read More »
Seven women who say they survived Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have sued celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai, claiming his salons helped Epstein make women look younger and style them to fit his preferences as part of the grooming that preceded his alleged abuse.Kersti Ferguson, Audra Christiansen and five women identified as Jane... Read More »
The Kennedy Center could close its main building as early as Tuesday as leaders warn the Washington performing arts institution is nearing bankruptcy and say deteriorating conditions have made the property unsafe for continued occupancy.A 57-page packet prepared ahead of a Sept. 15 meeting of the center's board of trustees... Read More »
U.S. authorities flew an American diplomat out of Britain after child sexual abuse images were reportedly found during a search of his London home, removing him before British police could question him about suspected offenses in the UK.The unnamed man was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in London and had... Read More »
Virginia Rep. Suhas Subramanyam has introduced a federal data center plan that would require utilities to recover the full cost of certain grid upgrades from qualifying large electricity users and put federal highway funding at risk for states that fail to implement the new standard.Subramanyam, a Democrat whose district includes... Read More »
An 86-year-old former United Farm Workers organizer has sued the estate of Cesar Chavez and two organizations tied to the late labor leader, accusing Chavez of raping her at a California farmworker compound in 1973 and alleging people within the movement helped conceal his abuse of women.The complaint, filed Sept.... Read More »
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is suing Netflix for billions of dollars, accusing the streaming giant of secretly tracking children and families for years before using subscriber data to fuel an advertising business it had publicly resisted.The 66-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit... Read More »
The Trump administration is moving to change who counts in the 2030 census, proposing to exclude millions of noncitizens from the population totals used to divide House seats among the states. The shift could cost states with large immigrant populations representation in Congress and Electoral College votes.Under a Census Bureau... Read More »
European criminal investigations sparked by the Jeffrey Epstein files are expanding, but authorities in several countries say key evidence remains in the hands of the U.S. Department of Justice months after they formally asked for help.Poland has been waiting since April for unredacted Epstein records. Latvia says several requests have... Read More »
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copying hundreds of thousands of articles without permission to train AI systems and asking a federal court to destroy models and training datasets that incorporate their journalism.The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed September 4 in the U.S.... Read More »
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