Rep. Tom Kean Jr. misses nearly 50 House votes as month-long absence raises questions

Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey has not cast a single vote on the House floor since March 5, missing nearly 50 roll calls while colleagues say their calls and texts went unanswered for weeks. His team has offered only a vague reference to unspecified health issues, and until House Speaker Mike Johnson […]

Democrats face scrutiny over heated rhetoric after third assassination attempt on Trump at WHCD shooting

A 31-year-old man barged into the Washington Hilton on Saturday night during the White House Correspondents' Dinner, reportedly intending to kill President Trump and other administration officials, and within hours, the same Democratic leaders who have spent years labeling the president a fascist and an existential threat were posting somber calls for calm. The accused […]

DOJ demands preservation group drop White House ballroom lawsuit after WHCA dinner shooting

The Department of Justice gave the National Trust for Historic Preservation a blunt ultimatum on Sunday: drop your lawsuit against the White House ballroom project by Monday morning, or the government will move to dissolve the court injunction itself. The demand came less than 24 hours after a gunman exchanged fire with law enforcement at […]

Ilhan Omar's massive financial disclosure gap draws deeper scrutiny of husband's business dealings

Rep. Ilhan Omar's household wealth went from as much as $30 million on paper to under $95,000, and her office calls it an accounting mistake. The Minnesota Democrat amended her congressional financial disclosure after the original filing placed her and husband Tim Mynett's combined assets between $6 million and $30 million. The revised figure: somewhere […]

Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid inspector general probe into misconduct allegations

Lori Chavez-DeRemer stepped down as Labor Secretary on Monday, becoming the third cabinet-level departure from the Trump administration this year as an inspector general investigation into a widening set of misconduct allegations continued to unfold around her and her husband. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung confirmed the resignation, saying Chavez-DeRemer would be "leaving the […]

Federal appeals court erases $8.2 million defamation award for Roy Moore, citing lack of actual malice

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday overturned the $8.2 million damages award that former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore had won against the Senate Majority PAC, ruling that Moore failed to prove the Democratic-aligned group acted with actual malice when it aired attack ads during his 2017 […]

Trump orders Reflecting Pool restoration, scraps $301 million plan for $1.5 million fix

President Donald Trump announced a fast-track project to restore the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, calling the iconic landmark "filthy" and "disgusting" after years of neglect, and rejecting a previous plan that would have cost taxpayers two hundred times more. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on April 23 that contractors […]

Baltimore mayor defends $52,000 in taxpayer-funded skybox spending, calls press scrutiny 'ridiculous'

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott spent more than $52,000 in public money on food, drinks, and skybox access at Baltimore Orioles and Baltimore Ravens games, and when a local reporter pressed him on it, he dismissed the questions as "ridiculous reporting" and accused the line of inquiry of carrying a "racist slant." A City of Baltimore […]

Baltimore mayor defends $52,000 in taxpayer-funded skybox spending, calls press scrutiny 'ridiculous'

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott spent more than $52,000 in public money on food, drinks, and skybox access at Baltimore Orioles and Baltimore Ravens games, and when a local reporter pressed him on it, he dismissed the questions as "ridiculous reporting" and accused the line of inquiry of carrying a "racist slant." A City of Baltimore […]

Trump orders Reflecting Pool restoration, scraps $301 million plan for $1.5 million fix

President Donald Trump announced a fast-track project to restore the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, calling the iconic landmark "filthy" and "disgusting" after years of neglect, and rejecting a previous plan that would have cost taxpayers two hundred times more. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on April 23 that contractors […]
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