Live updates: RFK Jr. back in hot seat; Trump to court young voters as GOP midterm fears grow

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday will testify once again before a House panel on the Trump administration’s health care agenda. It comes a day after he was grilled by lawmakers over vaccine changes and his “Make America Healthy Again” initiative. President Trump on Friday is set to speak at…

The Latest on the Redistricting Battles

Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in the Hillsboro Old Stone School in Hillsboro, Va., on Nov. 4, 2025 Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Despite the midterm season underway, the lines of congressional maps have not been finalized as redistricting battles continue nationwide. Since Texas’s opening salvo, lawmakers in both parties from Florida to

House passes short-term spy powers extension in late-night vote after deal falls apart

The House unanimously passed a short-term of the nation’s spy powers until in the wee hours Friday morning — pushing the deadline from April 20 to April 30 — after GOP rebels dramatically rejected a late-night, last-minute deal to extend for five years while adding some additional reforms and language intended to woo the holdouts….

GOP hard-liners threaten to tank FISA vote

House GOP hardliners are threatening to tank the FISA rule shortly on the House floor as Speaker Mike Johnson tries to force through a five year extension, according to four people granted anonymity to speak about plans not yet public. They’re livid over the “inexplicable 5 year extension, the fake warrant requirement, and the walk

Senate Votes to Repeal Biden-Era Mining Ban in Minnesota, Sending Bill to Trump

Crushed waste rock from processing taconite rises above a street lined with trees in Eveleth, Minn., on Oct. 2, 2018. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Senate narrowly voted on April 16 to overturn a 20-year mining ban imposed by the former Biden administration on a national forest in northeastern Minnesota. The measure, which

Republicans move forward on last-minute spy powers deal, teeing up late-night vote

House Republicans leaders are moving forward on a last-minute, late-night compromise with GOP rebels to extend the nation’s foreign spy powers for five years while adding in warrant language and enhanced criminal penalties for violations. Text of the provision was uploaded at about 10:30 p.m., about seven hours after a scheduled procedural vote and more than a…