Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is grappling with an attendance issue as lawmakers begin to prioritize the 2026 midterms, potentially complicating the passage of key measures in the months ahead.
The predicament was on full display this week: 22 Republicans did not vote for any bills on Tuesday, followed by seven on Wednesday and five on Thursday. By comparison, 21 Democrats did not vote for any bills on Tuesday, followed by six on Wednesday and nine on Thursday. |
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Student behavior in the classroom is not improving, and teachers want parents to do more.
An Education Week survey released this month found 64 percent of teachers reporting classroom behavior has gotten worse in the past year. Their No. 1 solution, coming from more than 60 educators, is smaller class sizes. |
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leading Senate conservative, is proposing to colleagues the idea of splitting off Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from the rest of funding for the Department of Homeland Security to end growing chaos at airports around the country. The proposal appeared to be gaining momentum within the Senate Republican conference on Saturday as GOP lawmakers grow increasingly pessimistic about reaching a deal with Democrats to reform federal immigration enforcement operations. |
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President Trump on Saturday threatened to "obliterate" Iran's power plants if it doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz within the next two days.
Trump's warning comes one day after he hinted that the U.S. was "winding down" its military operation in Iran, claiming the U.S. was "getting very close" to achieving its objective.
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) are locked into their Senate primary runoff fight as they court President Trump's coveted endorsement. |
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President Trump reacted to news of former special counsel Robert Mueller's death on Saturday by writing on Truth Social that he was "glad he's dead," reflecting his continued disdain for Mueller's probe into Russian interference and the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election. "Robert Mueller just died," he wrote. "Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!" |
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BY SOPHIE BRAMS AND RYAN MANCINI |
Former special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the Russian interference probe tied to the 2016 presidential election and President Trump's campaign, has died at the age of 81, according to a statement from his family. "With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away" on Friday night, his family said in a statement shared with The Associated Press on Saturday. "His family asks that their privacy be respected." |
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A jury on Friday found that Elon Musk misled Twitter's shareholders by driving down Twitter's stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition of the company in 2022. The San Francisco jury were asked if two tweets and comments made by Musk on a podcast showed that he deliberately defrauded the shareholders and drove down Twitter's stock price. They concluded that the tweets were false and misleading but did not hold him liable for the podcast comment. |
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Senate Democrats and Republicans appeared no closer to reaching a deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Saturday, following weeks of negotiations with the White House. President Trump's border czar Tom Homan has been meeting with centrist Democrats over the past few days to try to find a path forward on a DHS funding package. A meeting scheduled for Saturday evening between Homan and lawmakers was canceled that same afternoon. |
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OPINION | With $2 trillion annual budget deficits extending as far as the eye can see, rooting out unnecessary expenditures must be a top priority for both Congress and the administration. Unlike entitlements, defense, or key domestic programs, federal waste lacks explicit political support: it should thus be the easiest to cut. |
OPINION | Back in the day, I worked on our ballistic missile defense program and marveled at the ever-advancing technologies and various real-time threats they were meant to defeat. Today, I am shocked at the almost daily improvements in drone technology and the armadas they are producing — and wonder if the United States could be on the wrong end of "World War Drone." |
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A case about mail voting that will be the subject of oral arguments before the Supreme Court Monday in some ways boils down to a simple question. What is the definition of Election Day?
But the potential political consequences of the case, which was brought by allies of President Trump who want to bar states from counting mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day, are far more tangible. |
Minutes before an Iranian drone smashed into a fuel tank, sending a fiery explosion into the skies above Dubai International Airport, the wheels of an Emirates passenger plane en route to Beijing had just lifted from the runway.
The blast in the early hours of Monday morning forced two planes on approach to quickly divert and take up holding patterns. Twelve other flights had taken off in the 30 minutes before the attack. By midday, the airport was back up and running. |
A year ago, federal environmental regulators told West Virginia officials that their plan to clear sulfur and smog from skies over the state's national wilderness areas wasn't good enough because a dozen coal plants didn't analyze whether they needed better pollution controls. |
BY CASEY PARKS, CHRIS HACKER & DYLAN MORIARTY |
Zac Grant never let his truck run close to empty. Colorado's weather was too unpredictable for that, and lately, the cost of fuel had been, too. In the weeks since the United States had attacked Iran, the price for a gallon had shot up nearly 35 percent in Colorado, a hike that far outpaced the national average, and one the state hadn't seen in at least a quarter century. |
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