Happy Tuesday! In a nearly hour-long speech at the United Nations General Assembly today, President Donald Trump criticized the international body for alleged failings high and low, touching on everything from a broken teleprompter to the…
Happy Monday and a happy Jewish new year to those who celebrate! The House and Senate are out this week ahead of a government funding deadline in eight days. Is a government shutdown inevitable at this point? Political betting markets have…
Good evening. We head into the weekend 11 days from a government shutdown deadline, and the odds of federal agencies being shuttered jumped today as the Senate rejected a pair of funding bills. Here's what you should know.
Good evening! As the uproar swirls over ABC's decision yesterday to pull Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said today that more changes may be coming to the media landscape. "I don't…
Good evening. A government shutdown at the end of the month is looking increasingly likely as Republicans barrel ahead with their plan for a seven-week stopgap spending bill, teeing up a House vote later this week - a vote that, if it…
Happy Tuesday! President Trump headed to London today, where he will be the first U.S. president to get a second state visit to the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, FBI Director Kash Patel sparred with senators as he was grilled on Capitol Hill,…
Happy Monday! With a shutdown deadline looming, a congressional game of chicken will commence this week, as Republicans look to vote on a “clean” bill that will fund the government into November. Also this week, the Fed is expected to cut…
TGIF! Officials today announced that they had a suspect in custody in the killing of Charlie Kirk. And President Trump announced the next city in his federal crackdown on crime: Memphis, Tennessee. "We're going to Memphis," Trump said in…
Good evening. The nation today marked the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and continued to process the implications of the shocking assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. President Trump said Thursday he will…
Good evening. The nation was shocked Tuesday by another incident of political violence. We've got some details on that and more on today's D.C. developments.
Good evening. We've got updates on some legal challenges to President Trump's power on tariffs and federal funding, plus the latest on this month's shutdown threat and details about today's massive jobs data shake-up. So let's get to it.
Happy Monday! Congress is facing a government funding deadline at the end of the month, and lawmakers have a lot of work to do ahead of a potential shutdown in October. More details on where things stand below, along with some news about…
Good evening. Friday brought another weak jobs report and new rebranding of the Department of Defense. We'll get you caught up heading into the weekend.
Happy Thursday! The NFL season is about to kick off, as the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles face the perpetually chaotic Dallas Cowboys. But that clash may seem tame compared to the action in the Senate Finance Committee…
Good evening. More than 1,000 current and former Department of Health and Human Services employees signed a letter today saying that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the nation's health and calling on him to resign. Kennedy…
Happy Tuesday! We're back, and so is Congress! After a lengthy summer recess, House and Senate lawmakers return to Washington, D.C., with just four weeks to go before a September 30 government funding deadline and no clear plan to avert a…
A relatively quiet Wednesday as summer winds down, but that was not the case on this date in 1883, when the Krakatoa volcano blew its top, sending a plume of ash 50 miles into the air in the largest explosion in recorded history. In a less…
The news keeps coming, even on a Tuesday at the end of August! President Donald Trump is keeping up a busy late-summer schedule, holding a three-hour-plus cabinet meeting while weighing in on issues as diverse as his effort to fire Federal…