‘We have no real chance to make a law,’ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters. Senate Republicans are on track to halt a bipartisan border deal ahead of a key vote. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced the inevitable on Feb. 6: The bipartisan border and immigration agreement is dead in the Senate.
With Donald Trump’s 2024 primaries sweep making a rematch with the incumbent President Joe Biden more inevitable in the November elections, Wall Street and China analysts are already assessing the former president’s potential return to the White House and charting their probable reactions. A few investors have started playing the odds to see who will
California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) on Tuesday said he is sending 120 state law enforcement officers to help manage Oakland’s surging crime problems, as the city’s top two progressive leaders face potential recalls over the crisis and state voter worries over crime ding the governor’s own approval ratings. “What’s happening in this beautiful city and
A former White House official defied a subpoena. A top former government official has defied a subpoena from the U.S. House of Representatives, potentially setting up contempt proceedings. Andrew Slavitt, who served in 2021 as a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, refused to appear on Jan. 31 pursuant to the subpoena, according to letters
Several migrants accused of beating NYPD officers in Times Square and later fleeing the city have been apprehended in Arizona by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE officials arrested the migrants Monday evening at a Greyhound bus station in Phoenix but have not yet released their identities, according to Fox News. Videos emerged last week showing
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson confirmed Tuesday that he will be interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin. He will be the first Western journalist to do so since the start of Moscow’s invasion into Ukraine nearly three years ago. In a statement posted to social media, Carlson said he will interview Putin “because it’s our
The Senate border deal is on life support due to rising resistance from both Senate and House Republicans. President Joe Biden has accused former President Donald Trump of exacerbating the current border crisis by opposing the latest Senate border deal. “Now, all indications are that this bill won’t even move forward to the Senate floor.