Washington — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker delivered a marathon speech on the Senate floor overnight, continuing into the morning on Tuesday in a protest of the Trump administration’s policies. Booker, a 55-year-old who first came to the Senate in 2013 and is now the fourth-ranking Democrat, began speaking around 7 p.m. on Monday and said
Residents of the Badger State will have their last chance Tuesday to vote in an unusually high-stakes race for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. The election, which is officially nonpartisan, pits Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, who is backed by the Democratic Party, against Republican-endorsed Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel in what has been
Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices come just days after President Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout the
Washington —Special elections will be held Tuesday in two safe Republican Florida congressional districts that have attracted serious fundraising from Democrats and increased attention since President Trump withdrew Rep. Elise Stefanik’s name from consideration for U.N. ambassador. The race to replace former Rep. Mike Waltz, who resigned from his seat in Florida’s 6th Congressional District
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, is set to testify to Congress on Tuesday about thousands of newly released government documents surrounding the killing. Scholars say the files that President Donald Trump ordered to be released showed nothing undercutting
Nearly all employees at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an agency created by Congress to support American museums and libraries, were put on administrative leave Monday, according to a Trump administration official. An IMLS employee and a union representing them said all employees were put on leave, but an administration official said 12
A federal judge in California on Monday agreed to delay the Trump administration’s move to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program that currently shields roughly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants from deportation. Under a decision announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in February, these migrants were slated to lose their government-issued work permits and