Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) on Thursday objected to a Democratic resolution demanding the Department of Justice release all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego (D) went to the Senate floor Thursday at lunchtime to demand for the second time in eight days that Attorney General Pam Bondi release…
A bipartisan Senate appropriations bill seeks to prevent the Trump administration from cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) scientific research office. Text of the appropriations bill, which advanced 26-2 on Thursday, was not immediately available. However, a summary posted online states that the bill “requires EPA to maintain its Office of Research and Development to ensure cutting-edge…
Former federal prosecutor Nick Akerman called the U.S. government’s decision to interview Ghislaine Maxwell “extremely unusual” and suggested that the move was an attempt to secure a pardon for Maxwell in exchange for her saying that Donald Trump was not involved in the Epstein sex trafficking case.
Renowned artist Amy Sherald pulled her September show, “American Sublime,” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington due to concerns over what she described as the museum’s “culture of censorship.” Sherald said Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III urged her to replace one of her painting’s dedicated to trans visibility, titled “Trans Forming Liberty,”…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday condemned the Justice Department’s meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “Sending Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to interview Ghislaine Maxwell while she’s in prison, a woman who’s been convicted of abusing people, to offer some kind of corrupt deal…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pushed back on President Trump’s cost estimate of renovations at the central bank’s headquarters during a tour of the site on Thursday. “It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion. Went up a little bit, or a lot,” Trump said, asserting the cost of the renovation had increased from the previously…
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said President Trump should task someone with going over “every single angle” of the controversy surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I think in the end, the president will have to appoint somebody to go through every single angle,” Gingrich, a Trump ally, said during his Wednesday appearance on the…
The DOJ has filed a lawsuit against New York City, Mayor Eric Adams, and other city leaders to challenge laws that protect undocumented migrants, citing city ordinances that block local authorities from working with federal immigration officials.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France will recognize Palestinian statehood, a largely symbolic move but one that puts a leading, global nation at odds with Israel’s push for countries to hold off on recognizing Palestinian statehood until a resolution of the decades-old conflict. Macron, in a statement on the social platform X, said the move is…
President Trump on Thursday said there was “no tension” with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell during a visit to the central bank’s headquarters when asked about the energy of their meeting. “There was no tension. I think he had more tension with my great senator to the right. He’s a pretty tough cookie,” Trump added,…
