Controllers, techs with perfect shutdown attendance getting $10,000 bonuses

Only 776 air traffic controllers and technicians who had perfect attendance during the government shutdown will receive $10,000 bonuses while nearly 20,000 other workers will be left out, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday. A number of controllers started calling out of work as the shutdown dragged on longer than a month and they dealt

Here’s what’s in Trump administration’s proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan

Trump administration officials have proposed a 28-point peace plan designed to end the Russia-Ukraine war — a framework that would require Ukraine to give up its eastern Donbas region and Crimea, and swear off NATO membership, according to a draft shared publicly by a Ukrainian opposition politician and confirmed by a White House official. The

What Trump and Mamdani have said about each other

Washington — President Trump has called Zohran Mamdani “my little communist mayor.” Mamdani has vowed to “Trump-proof” New York City. Today, after months of heated rhetoric on both sides, the president and the mayor-elect of the nation’s biggest city will meet for the first time at the White House. Mamadani, a democratic socialist, doesn’t have

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to run for California governor in 2026

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who has been a leading critic of the Trump administration, announced on Thursday that he will run for governor of California in the 2026 election. He made the announcement on his official campaign website, which went live Thursday night ahead of a scheduled appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Swalwell got a

Maryland mother deported to Vietnam months after being detained by ICE

A Maryland mother was deported to Vietnam, her attorney confirmed Wednesday, after she was detained and released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier in the year.  Melissa Tran was initially taken into ICE custody in May and was ordered to be released in October by a judge who found the government was unnecessarily holding

Trump accuses 6 Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behavior”

Washington — Top Democrats in Congress called for President Trump to be “condemned forcefully” after he said on social media that Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military to disobey illegal orders should be arrested and face trial for “seditious behavior.”  The president said in a later post, “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” He