Things got testy at a hearing on the 2020 census, which Republicans say was flawed. Republicans sparred with Democrats during a Capitol Hill hearing Dec. 5 over significant miscounts in the 2020 Census. Republicans said those miscounts benefited blue states, and they renewed calls to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted in the future. Thursday’s
At the start of the new Congress, Republicans can’t afford to lose a single House vote. Just one resignation or defection could cost them the majority. WASHINGTON—The final federal contest of the 2024 election was the race in California’s 13th District in the San Francisco Bay Area for a seat in the U.S. House of
Ocasio-Cortez said she wants the committee to not only focus on oversight of the executive branch. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) announced on Dec. 6 that she is running to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, being the second one to throw her hat in the ring to succeed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
‘My mom always said you get more bees with honey than you do with vinegar,’ new Board of Supervisors chair Kathryn Barger told The Epoch Times. LOS ANGELES—As California lawmakers in Sacramento held an emergency session to “Trump-proof” their state against a perceived threat to “California values”—namely with a proposed $25 million litigation fund to
Prosecutors hope jurors will vote to convict Penny on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide Daniel Penny (Alex Kent/Getty Images) The judge overseeing the murder case against Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran accused of wrongfully killing a homeless man on a New York City subway, on Friday afternoon dropped the second-degree manslaughter charge against
Washington — The family of Austin Tice, the freelance journalist who was kidnapped in Syria more than 12 years ago, said they have been told that he is alive and well, and they’re frustrated with the U.S. government’s inability to bring him home. “We have from a significant source that has already been vetted all
Stephen Miller says the president-elect will order federal workers ’to get back into the office … or find another line of work.’ President-elect Donald Trump will order federal workers who have been working at home to return to the office, said his top adviser, Stephen Miller, in a recent interview. “When Donald Trump is inaugurated