House Republicans tried and failed Thursday evening to fast-track a measure to keep the government funded through a maneuver that required a two-thirds majority, pushing the government closer to a shutdown. House GOP leaders can still bring it up through regular channels by sending it through committee, and this would enable them to try again
Deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement soared to a 10-year high in fiscal year 2024 under the Biden administration, surpassing the Trump-era high recorded in 2019, according to a government report released Thursday. ICE deported more than 271,000 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2024, the highest tally recorded by the agency since fiscal year
‘There is a pardoning process in the state of New York,’ she said in a press conference. ‘It is lengthy. It requires a couple of elements. One is remorse.’ New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump would need to show remorse before she considered pardoning him on the criminal conviction
Other prosecutors unlikely to relitigate case that Trump’s attorney says ‘should have never been brought’ Fani Willis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis’s case against President-elect Donald Trump is “effectively dead,” according to legal experts, after a Georgia appeals court disqualified her from the investigation in a Thursday ruling. The court disqualified
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sounded off Thursday about Elon Musk’s influence over the spending drama on Capitol Hill.
Republicans and Democrats are concerned about Kennedy’s views on issues including vaccinations, pesticides, and abortion. WASHINGTON—Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President-elect Donald Trump’s intended nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has spent the week meeting with U.S. senators to seek their support for his confirmation. So far, across senators from
The House of Representatives is in chaos amid a last-minute bid to avert a Friday government shutdown.