Washington — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is delivering a record-breaking marathon speech on the Senate floor, which started Monday evening and has continued into the evening Tuesday, in a protest of the Trump administration’s policies. The speech now marks the longest on Senate record, surpassing Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 24 hour and 18 minute address in 1957.
Top federal health leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were effectively ousted Tuesday from their posts, with many reassigned to positions at the Indian Health Service, or IHS, as part of a sweeping restructuring ordered by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senior leaders at multiple agencies were removed, multiple health officials said,
Democrats countered during an April 1 hearing that Trump is threatening the judiciary’s independence and separation of powers. Republican members of Congress have been pushing for legislation that would prevent federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions—a form of court intervention that has drawn increased scrutiny in recent years. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who chairs the
The eruption of anti-Hamas protests across the Gaza Strip last week was a win for Israel, which has called for a popular revolt against the Palestinian terrorist group. Israel’s renewed military campaign in Gaza appears to have triggered the protests by weakening Hamas’s control of the strip and its credibility with the population, according to
Ossoff yet to address fellow Georgia Democrat’s rent-free lifestyle ahead of tough reelection campaign Georgia Democratic senatirs Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff / Getty Images Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) says securing access to affordable housing for public servants is “a matter of fairness.” But the vulnerable swing state Democrat won’t speak on the fairness
Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., multiple officials said. The process of fulfilling FOIA requests from reporters, advocacy groups
The Trump administration admitted in a court filing Monday that an “administrative error” and an “oversight” resulted in a Salvadoran man’s deportation and imprisonment in a supermax prison in El Salvador, despite a legal order prohibiting his removal there. Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office director Robert Cerna said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was