879 articles in the Politics & Elections category.
By Tommy Flynn
Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a House-passed ban on members of Congress trading stocks, in a 53–47 vote that fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance. The vote was on party lines. The measure is the Stop Insider Trading Act. The House had approved the bill with the...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal grand jury in Minnesota has indicted 10 lawful permanent residents for illegal voting or false claims of citizenship when they registered, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Wednesday with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Minnesota U.S. Attorney...
By Tommy Flynn
Former special counsel Jack Smith spent nearly four hours Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee defending the two federal cases he brought against Donald Trump and answering Republican questions about how his office collected phone records, text messages, donor checks,...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the new America.gov portal removes the main argument opponents have used against the SAVE America Act — that proof of citizenship and photo identification are too hard for ordinary Americans to obtain. “Nobody can any longer complain...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump unveiled on Tuesday and signed an executive order directing federal agencies to fold public-facing services into a single conversational portal. The site went live the same day at America.gov. Trump spoke at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, then...
By Tommy Flynn
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives now holds about 1.41 billion out-of-business dealer records on American gun buyers at the National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia, according to figures cited by members of Congress and Gun Owners of America....
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump is telling Republican voters to treat the Nov. 3 midterms as if his name were on the ticket, warning that a Democratic win would reopen the border and bring a new surge in crime. “Pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot,” he told a Myrtle Beach crowd while...
By Tommy Flynn
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a Sept. 22 memorandum directing U.S. Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, and other Pentagon intelligence agencies to identify, disrupt, and neutralize foreign interference in the November midterms. The one-page order was made public...
By Tommy Flynn
The Department of Education on Monday formally rescinded the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulation and restored the first Trump administration’s 2020 rule in the Code of Federal Regulations. Secretary Linda McMahon said the action “clears the Biden Administration’s...
By Tommy Flynn
University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape said a new Chicago Project on Security and Threats survey finds 25% of American adults — about 65 million people — support using violence to prevent President Trump from serving as president. Among self-identified Democrats,...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump notified House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday that he is rescinding $810 million in already appropriated but unspent money at seven agencies, five days before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. The letter cited the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of...
By Tommy Flynn
The White House left CNN off Air Force One for President Trump’s Saturday trip to Knoxville, Tennessee, according to Friday night guidance to the press corps. The network had been slated to fly as the rotating television pooler for a University of Tennessee–University of Texas...