879 articles in the Politics & Elections category.
By Tommy Flynn
House Speaker Mike Johnson spent Sunday explaining a midterm promise the president made last week without clearing it through the people who write spending bills. At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, President Donald Trump told the hall he would “issue a dividend to...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said Sunday he will review a request from Sept. 11 families to declassify remaining records that they say may tie hijackers or facilitators to Saudi officials, telling reporters on the Shannon Airport tarmac that he “could be” open to a release after he returns...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump closed a two-day Ireland trip Sunday at his Doonbeg course by announcing he will take U.S. tariffs off Irish whiskey, telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop striking Russian diesel infrastructure, and saying the United States must stay ahead of...
By Tommy Flynn
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Thursday that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother to bring him into the United States and that “something’s going to happen,” describing the matter as an ongoing federal investigation that could reach her naturalization if...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the Department of Homeland Security broke the law when it directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce by half and took personnel authority away from FEMA’s own leadership. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, a...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department sent letters to at least 30 chief election officials last week instructing them not to destroy 2024 federal-election records after the 22-month retention period in the Civil Rights Act of 1960 expired Sept. 5. The letters, dated Sept. 4, state that those...
By Tommy Flynn
The White House Government Transparency Task Force on Wednesday released fully unredacted handwritten notes taken by FBI agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka during their Jan. 24, 2017, interview of then-national security adviser Michael Flynn, alongside the bureau’s typed FD-302...
By Tommy Flynn
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., appeared by pre-recorded video Wednesday night at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, introducing fellow Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and saying he would work with McCormick and President Donald Trump to “defend the steel way of...
By Tommy Flynn
Wednesday at American Airlines Center was the first night of the Republican Party’s first midterm convention. Programming ran from mid-afternoon until about 10 p.m. There was no platform to adopt and no nominee to confirm. The hall was a turnout rally for November, built around...
By Tommy Flynn
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld an injunction that bars the Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a mass-request procedure adopted last year. The court said...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department is back at the Supreme Court asking the justices to lift a Boston judge’s block on a Postal Service rule that would tighten how states send and return federal mail ballots. In a separate case Tuesday, Justice Brett Kavanaugh refused to revive Missouri’s...
By Tommy Flynn
Republicans open a first-of-its-kind midterm convention Wednesday at American Airlines Center in Dallas, with President Donald Trump scheduled to deliver the opening-night keynote and speak again Thursday. Vice President JD Vance is slated for the Thursday keynote. The two-day...