California lawmakers on Tuesday rejected Republican-sponsored bills to limit trans high school athletes participation in girls’ and women’s sports, the latest clash in a high-octane debate that continues to divide the nation. Despite hours of passionate testimony, the outcome was never really in question in a California Legislature where Democrats hold a supermajority and Republicans … Read more
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79. This story from 2014 looks at the likelihood of President Obama appointing any more justices during his remaining years in office. The window for President Obama to add another liberal justice to the Supreme Court probably closed last week when Republicans took control … Read more
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-N. Y.), who is scheduled for sentencing this month on his extortion conviction in the Wedtech case, announced Tuesday that he will resign from his House seat effective Sunday. Garcia, 56, and his 48-year-old wife, Jane Lee Garcia, were convicted in October of extorting $178,500 in cash, loans and jewelry from the … Read more
Even before President Bush signs into law the first federal ban on an abortion procedure in 30 years, social conservatives are moving on several other legislative and political fronts in their decades-long campaign to establish what they call the unborn’s right to life. Their agenda for the next year: pass more bills to protect fetuses, … Read more
Amber Ruffin was scheduled to perform at the 2025 White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner on April 26. Until she wasn’t. (Richard Shotwell / Invision / Associated Press) Amber Ruffin isn’t going to perform for the White House Correspondents’ Assn.’s dinner later this month after the group’s board decided unanimously to un-invite her as its featured … Read more
Retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, President Trump’s nominee to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrives for his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) President Trump’s nominee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, told … Read more
Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson, makes a court appearance Feb. 21 in New York. (Curtis Means / Associated Press) U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi said Tuesday she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside … Read more
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions on tariffs while meeting with reporters at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday exercised his power of the gavel — and tried to bring it down with an unusually … Read more
Prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S. to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador last month. (El Salvador presidential press office / AP) President Trump ‘s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison but is arguing against returning him to federal custody … Read more
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) was still speaking Tuesday morning on the Senate floor. (Senate Television / AP) New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker was holding the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and well into Tuesday morning in a feat of endurance to show Democrats’ frustration with President Trump’s sweeping actions. … Read more
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