The bid sets up challenge against a Democratic incumbent in a largely rural district that favored President Donald Trump in each of his 3 elections. Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced on Monday he’s running to represent the state’s 2nd congressional district in an effort to unseat a Democrat incumbent in the GOP stronghold. LePage,
A Columbia student activist and green card holder who was detained when he went for a citizenship interview last month said President Trump “will not silence me,” in an interview with CBS News from Vermont on Monday. Mohsen Mahdawi’s comments marked his first network interview since a judge ordered his release last week — a
Hegseth has issued a memorandum ordering a reduction in the number of general and flag officers by 20 percent. WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on May 5 ordered a 20 percent reduction in the number of four-star generals and flag officers in the U.S. military, as well as reductions to the number of officers elsewhere.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a scathing letter to Harvard President Alan Garber, slamming the school and saying they will not get future federal grants.
The National Endowment for the Arts, the nation’s largest funder of arts and arts education, has begun sending grant terminations to arts organizations. President Trump’s proposed budget, released last week, calls for shutting down the agency, which was founded in 1965. Mr. Trump’s budget proposals in his first term had called to shut down the
The bill aims to bring predictability to the stablecoin market with a regulatory system, but Democrats said they want more security-related reforms. WASHINGTON—A group of nine Senate Democrats announced May 3 that they will not support a bill designed to regulate stablecoins in the cryptocurrency industry. Stablecoins are digital assets whose value is fixed in
The Trump administration’s plan to trim the IRS workforce has resulted in almost one-third of its tax auditors leaving the agency through March, according to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department’s watchdog. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has sought to trim the federal workforce through a combination of layoffs and so-called