Washington — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are looking to limit President Trump’s ability to order U.S. strikes on Iran amid its ongoing war with Israel, emphasizing that only Congress has the power to declare war under the Constitution. “This is not our war,” GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky said in a
Washington — Annual financial disclosures for members of the Supreme Court were released to the public Tuesday, detailing the gifts and incomes the justices received in 2024, as well as any positions held outside of the court. Reports for eight of the nine sitting members of the high court were due on May 15. Justice
President Trump said early Tuesday morning that he wants “a real end” to Iran’s nuclear problem, with Tehran “giving up entirely” its enrichment activities. He said he was not just working toward a ceasefire to end the war between Iran and Israel, which has claimed at least two dozen lives in Israel and hundreds in
Fifty-five attorneys general around the country have now signed on to a $7.4 billion settlement with drugmaker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, over the opioid crisis, officials said. Fifteen states initially agreed to the settlement in January. Since then, an additional 34 states, five territories and Washington, D.C., joined the settlement, according
Former Sen. Bob Menendez reported to prison Tuesday morning to begin serving an 11-year sentence following his conviction on federal bribery charges. Menendez surrendered to the Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, in Minersville, Pennsylvania, about three hours away from his home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The facility houses approximately 1,200 inmates and has both a
Washington — A federal judge struck down sweeping Trump administration orders that resulted in the cancellation of hundreds of National Institutes of Health research grants because they were linked to topics like diversity, gender identity and vaccine hesitancy. “The ideologically motivated directives to terminate grants alleged to constitute DEI, ‘gender ideology,’ or other forbidden topics
Virginia Democrats on Tuesday are voting for their nominees for lieutenant governor and attorney general, rounding out the statewide ticket and setting the stage for a bellwether election later this year. Most of the nominees slated to be at the top of the November ticket have already been picked, and Republicans aren’t having a statewide