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Lawmakers from both major parties introduced and advanced multiple AI-related bills this week focused on child safety, transparency and workforce cybersecurity training. A Senate proposal would require chatbot firms to offer family accounts enabling parental oversight, while House legislators unveiled a separate measure to support AI research, stan…
The White House has rescinded President Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Socha, a hospitality executive with Delaware North, to head the National Park Service (NPS). The administration offered no explanation for the move. The withdrawal occurs as the agency remains under acting management and amid broader disputes over interpretive signage and ex…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said past statements expressing what it calls extremist views by green card and naturalization applicants will prompt closer review by immigration officers. The guidance, which cites examples including criticism of Israel and participation in pro-Palestinian protests, has drawn criticism from civil liberties…
Saturday’s shooting at a Washington black-tie event attended by President Donald Trump and numerous senior officials did not produce fatalities, but it renewed questions about who would assume presidential authority if the president or other senior leaders were killed or incapacitated. U.S. law establishes a sequence of successors that reaches from…
April 27 - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proposed a new congressional map intended to turn four Democratic-held U.S. House seats to Republican control in November. He has summoned lawmakers for a special session beginning Tuesday to consider the plan, which would raise Republican representation from 20 to a likely 24 of the state’s 28 seats, and is…
The U.S. Supreme Court formally reinstated a Republican-drawn Texas congressional map that a lower court had blocked as likely racially discriminatory. The decision, reflecting the court's 6-3 conservative majority, revives an August 2025 plan that could flip as many as five Democratic-held U.S. House seats to Republican control and comes as both p…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal from Florida parents who sought to sue a public school district over a policy that withholds changes to a student's name or pronouns from parents unless the child consents. A lower court had dismissed the suit, and the high court's decision leaves that dismissal intact as similar challe…
Wolfe Research says President Trump has moved toward a 'wait it out' posture with Iran, favoring a blockade over direct military action. The research house warns that if the blockade does not compel a quick Iranian capitulation, closures in the Strait of Hormuz could extend for weeks or months and reassert pressure on equity markets.
The U.S. Justice Department has directed the Bureau of Prisons to revise federal execution protocols to include firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation. The guidance, contained in a 52-page report, is presented as a response to difficulties obtaining drugs used for lethal injections and follows a push by the administration to resume capit…
An internal Pentagon email lays out punitive policy options for allies considered unhelpful to U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from NATO and revisiting U.S. diplomatic stances on territories such as the Falkland Islands. The memo, prepared by senior policy adviser Elbridge Colby, frames access, basing and overflight…
President Donald Trump welcomed winners of his second annual meme-coin contest to Mar-a-Lago on April 25, offering a private audience and VIP reception to top purchasers of the $TRUMP token. The event came as the coin has lost more than 95% of its peak value and as Democratic leaders press for investigations into the Trump family's expanding crypto…
U.S. law enforcement is reviewing protections for the president and other officials after a California man allegedly opened fire near the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton. Federal agents intercepted the suspect before he reached the ballroom basement where President Trump was due to speak, but audible gunfire …
President Donald Trump addressed reporters shortly after an apparent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, casting the incident as proof of his political influence and of the need for a new secure White House ballroom. The event, which sent roughly 2,600 attendees scattering as the Secret Service evacuated the…
President Donald Trump told Fox News he has been in routine contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and expressed optimism about resolving the nearly three-year-old war in Ukraine. He declined to specify details of a recent call with Putin but said conversations with both leaders have been 'good.' T…
A man opened fire at a security checkpoint outside the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, wounding a Secret Service agent’s protective vest but not the officer, and prompting the rapid evacuation of President Donald Trump and others from the ballroom. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said investigators …
A faction of House Democrats has pushed for a commission to assess presidential fitness under the 25th Amendment after President Trump’s recent rhetoric and actions, but many party strategists and incumbents caution that focusing on removal or impeachment risks undermining Democrats’ midterm pitch centered on affordability and the economy.
A Reuters/Ipsos national poll conducted April 15-20 finds 64% of U.S. adults oppose abolishing birthright citizenship while 32% favor it, as the Supreme Court prepares to issue rulings this term on immigration policy, transgender participation in women’s sports, and mail-in ballot counting. The survey highlights deep partisan cleavages on these iss…
A gunman armed with multiple weapons shot a Secret Service agent outside the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, which President Donald Trump headlined. The incident, occurring just floors away from a ballroom packed with roughly 2,600 guests and a concentration of cabinet members, lawmakers and celebrities,…
Law enforcement officials have identified the individual arrested following gunfire at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents' Dinner as Cole Tomas Allen, a Torrance, California resident. Publicly available social media and professional profiles portray him as a Caltech alumnus with engineering and computer science degrees, who…
A single gunman rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, prompting agents to escort President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet from the venue. The suspect was subdued and taken into custody after law enforcement exchanged gunfire and tackled him; officials say the …
Republican operatives are adjusting their midterm strategy to extract the voter-mobilizing benefits of Donald Trump’s appeal while avoiding framing congressional contests as a direct referendum on his presidency. The shift follows rising gasoline costs, low presidential approval ratings and the continued Iran war, which together have prompted campa…
President Donald Trump will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner on Saturday, marking the first time he has appeared at the black-tie event while in office. His participation, after boycotts in his first term and in 2025, has produced intense debate inside Washington’s newsrooms and among press freedom groups. Critics po…
President Donald Trump will welcome winners of his second annual meme coin contest to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, this Saturday, offering top $TRUMP token holders access to a day-long conference and a VIP reception despite the token having collapsed from its peak. The event comes amid increased scrutiny of the Trump family's crypto activitie…
The Department of Justice is expected to terminate its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as soon as Friday, according to reports citing officials familiar with the matter. Senior DOJ officials have notified senators, including Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, that the inquiry into alleged cost overruns at the Fed's Washing…
The U.S. State Department announced on April 24 that Tommy Pigott has been appointed as its new spokesperson. Pigott, who joined the department and the Trump administration in January 2025, had been serving as principal deputy spokesperson. The post became vacant after Tammy Bruce was appointed U.S. deputy representative to the United Nations. The …
