Paris Hilton-Championed Youth Treatment Bill Passes House

The ‘Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act’ will now head to President Biden’s desk. Paris Hilton is making strides for youth welfare on Capitol Hill, as the House passed the “Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act” with overwhelming bipartisan support on Dec. 18. The measure passed by a vote of 373–33 after unanimously clearing the Senate last

House GOP’s new funding bill to avoid shutdown fails in fast-track vote

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 ICE jumped to 10-year high in 2024, surpassing Trump-era peak

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

New York Governor Says Trump Needs to Show Remorse Before Considering Pardon

‘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

‘Effectively Dead’: Fani Willis’s Case Against Trump Is Toast After Appeals Court Ruling, Lawyers Say

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