Washington — Independent Dan Osborn announced another bid to represent Nebraska in the Senate on Tuesday, challenging GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts after his loss in an unexpectedly competitive race against a Republican incumbent last year. “There’s nobody like us in the United States Senate,” Osborn said in a campaign video announcing the bid Tuesday, touting
The Trump administration is using the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to detain dozens of foreigners from 26 countries and six different continents, including detainees with serious criminal convictions, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. CBS News reported last week that, as part of an expansion of the Trump administration’s effort to turn
Washington — The IRS says pastors who endorse political candidates from the pulpit shouldn’t have to risk their churches losing their tax-exempt status. The move effectively calls for a carve-out for religious organizations from the rarely used IRS rule called the Johnson Amendment, put in place in 1954 and named after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson. In
Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate, is teaming up with Montana Republican Tim Sheehy, one of the upper chamber’s most conservative, to advance a new Pentagon policy that has earned support from top Trump administration officials. Warren and Sheehy are introducing legislation on Tuesday that would give
President Trump said Monday his administration will send more defensive weapons to Ukraine amid its war with Russia, days after pausing some weapons shipments. “We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves,” Mr. Trump told reporters during a White House event with Israeli Prime Minister
The Department of Veterans Affairs has dropped plans revealed in a memo earlier this year to lay off tens of thousands of personnel in August, a news release from the department indicated Monday. The VA announced it’s currently on pace to reduce its staff by about 30,000 employees by the end of this fiscal year,
President Trump on Monday said the U.S will impose 25% tariffs on goods from South Korea and Japan by Aug. 1, while also threatening to hit a dozen other nations with steep import duties by next month. Mr. Trump initially posted two nearly identical letters, addressed to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee