Mayorkas slams Texas Gov. Abbott for saying Biden should use executive authority on border

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pushed back Sunday on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent remarks that President Joe Biden should use more executive authority to take action on the southern…

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House Dem: Speaker needs to deliver ‘inevitable’ to ‘flammable right wing’ on government funding

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that the “flammable right wing” of the GOP won’t get what it wants in government funding negotiations this week as another government shutdown deadline…

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Ukraine’s troops are rationing ammunition. Yet House Republicans plan to take weeks to mull more aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian drones fly without ammunition. Russian artillery unleash deadly volleys from safe positions beyond the range of Kyiv's troops. Shortages of ammo and supplies are resulting in…

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Trump calls GOP candidate with a history of offensive remarks ‘Martin Luther King on steroids’

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump likened North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to Martin Luther King Jr. in an endorsement Saturday, despite the gubernatorial candidate’s long history of…

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Elizabeth Warren’s GOP Challenger Has a History of Incredibly Blunt Anti-Trump Tweets

John Deaton, the Republican cryptocurrency booster who just launched a longshot 2024 challenge against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), has a resume loaded with potential campaign-killers. Deaton has been public about…

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Supreme Court justice slams MO court, says it shows ‘danger’ of same-sex marriage decision

A Missouri prison worker’s legal fight against on-the-job discrimination this week provided U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito — one of the court’s most conservative members — an opportunity to…

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Republicans Delete Reference To FBI Informant From Impeachment Interview Request Letter

On Tuesday, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) included the paragraph about the informant in an interview request letter to former…

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