A drone view of a California High-Speed Rail Bridge where it crosses over Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif., on June 8, 2025. Fred Greaves/Reuters A federal judge in California on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the rescission of more than $4 billion in federal funding for the state’s high-speed
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with top business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, on Dec.10, 2025. Alex Wong/Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump hosted business leaders for a roundtable discussion at the White House on Dec. 10 about facilitating technology innovation. “Our administration is committed to
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). WASHINGTON—The Senate is poised for a Dec. 11 vote on competing measures to resolve the standoff over extending the expiring subsidies for Obamacare. Both are likely to fall along party lines, and to fail to reach the 60-vote threshold required to advance
(Left) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). (Right) Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). WASHINGTON—The Senate on Dec. 11 rejected a pair of competing health care measures aimed at addressing expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Both procedural votes ran largely along party lines, with neither proposal gaining the 60 votes needed to advance in the
Saritha Komatireddy believes in longshots, she told the Washington Free Beacon. Komatireddy, a 41-year-old mother of four and former federal prosecutor, announced her candidacy for New York attorney general last week as a Republican in a state former vice president Kamala Harris won by double digits in the 2024 presidential election. Less than a quarter
Maryland governor Wes Moore, now considered a serious prospect for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, got his big break in 2006. Fresh off a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, President George W. Bush awarded Moore, then 27, a White House fellowship, a prestigious, year-long internship during which he served as a special assistant to then-secretary of
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has been frustrated by a Senate tradition that has negatively affected his appointments for U.S. attorney positions. The “blue slip” is a tradition in the upper chamber where home state senators of U.S. attorney and district court nominees either approve or disapprove of that person. Both state senators must return their blue