Climate protesters tackled on field, arrested at Congressional Baseball Game
(The Hill) - Eight climate protesters were arrested at Wednesday's Congressional Baseball Game after running onto the field. The protesters were tackled by U.S. Capitol Police and were charged with...
View ArticleSupreme Court upholds access to mifepristone abortion pill in unanimous decision
The Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision Thursday that a group of anti-abortion doctors does not have any legal basis to challenge access to mifepristone, one of the two common drugs used in...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules man can’t trademark ‘Trump too small’
A California attorney’s bid to trademark “Trump too small” ended Thursday when the Supreme Court tossed his free speech challenge to his rejected application. Steve Elster, the attorney, had hoped to...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules for Starbucks in union case over terminated employees
The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed a lower court's ruling ordering Starbucks to reinstate seven Memphis-based employees terminated amid a unionization drive. The decision makes it more difficult to...
View ArticleTrump jokes Greene should be nice to Speaker Johnson
Former President Trump joked that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) should be nice to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) during a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting Thursday, a sign that the...
View ArticleWisconsin Republicans rush to Trump's defense after Milwaukee quip
Wisconsin Republicans rushed to former President Trump’s defense Thursday after it was reported that the presumptive GOP nominee criticized Milwaukee during a closed-door conference meeting. Punchbowl...
View ArticleMcConnell shakes Trump’s hand at 'positive' meeting
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Thursday spoke and shook hands with former President Trump during a meeting at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the first time the two...
View ArticleSenate Republicans block legislation to codify IVF access
Legislation to establish a national right to in vitro fertilization (IVF) was blocked by Senate Republicans on Thursday, amid a push by Democrats to put the GOP on defense over reproductive rights...
View ArticleBiden rules out commuting son Hunter's sentence
President Biden on Thursday ruled out the possibility of commuting the sentence of his son Hunter Biden after a jury delivered a guilty verdict this week on three charges related to the purchase of a...
View ArticleClarence Thomas fails to disclose 3 Harlan Crow trips, Senate records show
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose three trips that were paid for by GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow, according to information obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee and released...
View ArticleTrump boosts Johnson in ‘pep rally’ with House GOP
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) stock appears to have risen after former President Trump’s “pep rally” meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill. Johnson has come under fire from hard-line...
View ArticleTrump backs Larry Hogan in Maryland Senate race
Former President Trump has thrown his support behind Republican Larry Hogan in Maryland's Senate race, even after the former governor drew the ire of Trump allies for urging voters to respect the...
View ArticleHouse GOP adds culture war amendments to annual defense bill
House Republicans added a host of culture war amendments to the annual defense bill on Thursday, complicating the traditionally bipartisan measure's path to final passage later this year. Among the...
View ArticleMajority of Republicans vote down Greene's anti-Ukraine aid proposal
A majority of Republicans joined with Democrats on Thursday to vote down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) amendment to the annual Defense bill that called for preventing any funds in the...
View ArticleBiden: Recent acts of antisemitism in New York 'abhorrent'
President Biden on Friday condemned a recent spate of antisemitic acts in New York, including vandalism and a demonstration outside an exhibit honoring the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on...
View ArticleAlito: Congress can act on bump stocks after Supreme Court lifts Trump-era ban
Justice Samuel Alito on Friday asserted that Congress could amend the law to successfully ban bump stocks in an opinion concurring with the Supreme Court's decision Friday to invalidate a Trump-era...
View ArticleSupreme Court invalidates Trump-era bump stock ban
The Supreme Court invalidated the Trump-era ban on bump stocks along ideological lines on Friday, ending the nationwide ban on the devices, which convert semi-automatic weapons to fire hundreds of...
View ArticleBiden campaign launches Milwaukee merchandise, homepage takeover after Trump...
The Biden campaign is taking over the homepage of a local newspaper in Milwaukee on Friday, seizing on comments from former President Trump a day earlier in which he criticized the city. The Biden...
View ArticleSupreme Court bump stock decision hurls gun rights back into spotlight
The Supreme Court’s decision invalidating the nationwide bump stock ban ignited a firestorm among Democrats and gun control groups that have long maligned the device used to perpetrate the nation’s...
View ArticleHulk Hogan won't rule out future in politics: 'I’ll rule with an iron fist'
(The Hill) – Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan said he'd be willing to step into the political ring if necessary, when asked during a Fox News interview Friday. “We need somebody in there that’s got some...
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