Democrats face dwindling options to move forward with redistricting after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a major victory this week allowing them to use a redrawn map in Texas next year.
While Virginia Democrats are signaling they'll move forward with redrawing their congressional lines, Democrats in other states have expressed opposition, posing a challenge for those in the party who want to net as many additional seats as possible before the midterms.
The disagreements underscore the challenges the party faces in responding to Republicans, who are trying to move forward with new maps in other states like Indiana and Florida. |
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Afghans and those who have spent years trying to help them since the fallout of the U.S. withdrawal from the country are reeling after a series of punitive actions taken by President Trump in the wake of a deadly shooting against National Guardsmen.
The killing of 20-year old National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom allegedly by an Afghan evacuee was the catalyst for a number of far-reaching immigration moves that will impact migrants from all 19 countries listed on Trump's travel ban.
But among the pauses on many forms of immigration is an order to halt processing of any visas for Afghanistan, all but closing the door to the thousands of allies who helped the U.S. with efforts during its 20-year war. |
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President Trump on Saturday awarded medals to the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, while hailing the renovations underway at the famed Washington arts destination months after he announced an overhaul of the center and named himself its board chair.
"We are making something really special," Trump said in the Oval Office, according to a pool report. "It's been mistreated, a little bit like the White House has been mistreated to be honest with you, and we are bringing it back to a level that I don't think any place in the country will see." Trump presented medals to what he described as "perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class of Kennedy Center Honorees ever assembled." The Honors recipients are English actor Michael Crawford, disco singer Gloria Gaynor, actor Sylvester Stallone, country singer George Strait and members of the rock band KISS. |
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is facing a challenging political future as he finds himself at the epicenter of a growing fraud scandal in his home state.
The controversy, which focuses on hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly stolen from a federally funded nutrition program, has led to more than 50 convictions. The New York Times gave the story national attention last week, highlighting statements from federal prosecutors that as much as $1 billion in taxpayer money may have been stolen in separate plots. It has even Walz's longtime allies wondering if the governor should walk away from a reelection bid for a third term as governor. |
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday took the podium at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum to attack post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy, declaring a new military focus on the Western Hemisphere while lambasting the decisions of former administrations.
Over roughly 40 minutes, Hegseth touched on a myriad of topics, including repeated demands that allies fend for themselves, better defense of American borders, a recharge of the U.S. defense industrial base and the ongoing boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea. But more notably, the speech appeared to offer a softer stance on China's military and all but ignored Russia. |
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President Trump on Saturday took another swing at talks around rising prices and cost of living concerns, largely casting the blame for the "affordability crisis" on his predecessor.
The president specifically took aim at analysis from stockbroker Peter Schiff, who appeared on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" recently, calling the guest a "Trump hating loser who has already proven to be wrong." "Either the show made a mistake, or it is heading in a different direction," Trump wrote Saturday morning on Truth Social. "He thinks prices are going up when, in fact, they are coming substantially down. Gasoline hit $1.99 a gallon yesterday, in certain states, and is down BIG since [former President] Biden." |
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The National Park Service in 2026 will offer free admission to U.S. residents on June 14 — or Flag Day, which also happens to be President Trump's birthday.
But the Interior Department, which oversees the park service, also quietly removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth — June 19 — from its list of free admission days. Both holidays, two of the nation's most prominent days for commemorating civil rights, were on the 2025 list, but not Flag Day, according to The Associated Press. "The raw & rank racism here stinks to high heaven," Harvard Kennedy School professor Cornell William Brooks, a former president of the NAACP, wrote on the social platform X about the new policy. |
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Federal authorities announced Thursday that an arrest had been made in the nearly five-year-long investigation of pipe bombs planted outside of the Democratic and Republican national committee officers the evening before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Brian Cole Jr., 30, was arrested at his home in Woodbridge, Va., and charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials. The first count carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and the second carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. Cole did not enter a plea during his first court appearance on Friday. Prosecutor Charles Jones said the government will prioritize certain discovery, which includes a four-hour long custodial interview with the suspect. |
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) took his criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a step further Friday, claiming the Pentagon chief's recent decisions have "ruined his credibility."
"I've been on the record already," he told Politico's Dasha Burns, who also hosts "Ceasefire" on C-SPAN. "After Signalgate, I think I've seen enough. What I really wanted to see was someone take responsibility — own to a mistake." "And then when he blamed the media or the, you know, the journalist for the story, it just — it ruined his credibility," he added. |
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OPINION | Growing numbers of Americans are realizing President Trump is a raging bull in a china shop, recklessly destroying the effectiveness of federal agencies, making America less affordable, increasing unemployment, endangering our health and corrupting our justice system.
A November Associated Press poll found only 33 percent of U.S. adults approve of Trump's management of government, down from 43 percent in March. While other polls show Trump with an approval ratings in the 40s, none show he gets the approval of most Americans. |
OPINION | I've spent a great deal of time in Venezuela and Mexico, for both personal and professional reasons. At the peak of that time, my Spanish was more than passable. As the years have gone by, sadly, I am losing the language. Knowing that, I try to engage with Spanish speakers here in the U.S. as often as possible.
Recently, while visiting a friend in Florida, I took a break to walk around their gated community. As I did, I came across what turned out to be a family from Mexico: a mother, father and their 16-year-old daughter. |
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In the weeks after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastrous.
Mr. Biden had pledged to treat unauthorized immigrants more humanely than President Donald J. Trump, who generated widespread backlash by separating migrant children from their parents.
But Mr. Biden was now president-elect, and his positions threatened to drastically increase border crossings, experts advising his transition team warned in a Zoom briefing in the final weeks of 2020, according to people with direct knowledge of that briefing. That jump, they said, could provoke a political crisis. |
BY SABRINA SIDDIQUI, LAURA KUSISTO AND LINDSAY WISE |
As congressional Republicans weighed how to approach the fight over extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, powerful antiabortion groups saw an opportunity.
Led by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, antiabortion activists began to pressure Republicans during the fall government shutdown to further restrict abortion coverage from insurance plans made cheaper by ACA subsidies at the heart of the dispute.
The activists' warning was simple: Extending subsidies without such limits was a line Republicans must not cross to keep social conservative support in next year's midterm elections.
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A new Russian military unit that replaced the Wagner mercenary group is carrying out abuses including rapes and beheadings as it teams up with Mali 's military to hunt down extremists, dozens of civilians who fled the fighting have told The Associated Press.
The Africa Corps is using the same tactics as Wagner, the refugees said, in accounts not reported by international media until now. Two refugees showed videos of villages burned by the "white men." Two others said they found bodies of loved ones with liver and kidneys missing, an abuse the AP previously reported around Wagner. |
If you rolled past Bedrosian Park after the final bell rang at Waukegan High School on any given weekday this fall, you were likely to find Diego Rosales and his mop of unruly black hair, basketball in hand, permanently grinning and playing down to the level of local middle-schoolers. Until Oct. 6, when Rosales watched two dark SUVs come to an abrupt stop while he waited for the bus to school.
Rosales brought his eyeglasses to his nose just in time to see three White men in green fatigues, cloth masks and body armor emerging from the vehicles with pistols on their hips. They stared and then rushed toward him. |
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