WASHINGTON — Free-speech and tech groups are beseeching the Supreme Court to invalidate a law that would effectively ban TikTok after the court appeared inclined to uphold the law during oral arguments.

“A TikTok ban would hurt American businesses and consumers more than TikTok itself ever has,” said Ash Johnson, senior policy manager at ...Read more

Biden surrogates insist that the massive spending bills which triggered the inflation that helped bring down Democrats in November will pay large dividends in coming years. As President Joe Biden shuffles off the stage this month, it’s worth taking a closer look at this claim.

The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (in progressive-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House has passed a bill that would prohibit federal funding from flowing to schools unless they ban transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports.

Two Democrats, Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, voted with Republicans in favor of the legislation.

“As a grandfather to six wonderful, capable ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Just before Christmas, Congress approved billions of dollars in relief funds to help victims of devastating wildfires in Maui and Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the Southeast.

Congress was acting a year and a half after the Hawaii disaster, and two months after Western North Carolina and other areas were devastated.

Now ...Read more

A heated meeting of the House Oversight Committee erupted into chaos on Tuesday when South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace challenged Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett to a fight on the House floor.

Rep. Mace took offense to Crockett calling her “child” while criticizing her anti-trans messaging.

“Somebody’s campaign coffers really are ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto reintroduced legislation aiming to combat and prevent wildfires Tuesday as a series of catastrophic wildfires continued to burn in Southern California.

The Western Wildfire Support Act — introduced alongside Republican Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy — would authorize funding for firefighting equipment, creating new...Read more

U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., on Tuesday announced his intention to file a bill that would strip the California Coastal Commission of its authority to review certain activities relating to national security, critical infrastructure or with a high economic impact.

This comes months after the commission voted to bar SpaceX — the private ...Read more

As her father prepares to take up the presidency for a second time next week, Ivanka Trump revealed that she “hates politics” and has no intention of returning to work at the White House.

The 43-year-old former presidential adviser shared the multiple reasons she decided to sit this term out while appearing on Tuesday’s episode of the “...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security says it is continuing to accept requests for asylum-seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and is authorizing travel for certain nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela seeking to lawfully enter the United States through a humanitarian parole program beyond Jan. 20, when President-elect Donald ...Read more

TikTok remains on schedule to be banned in the U.S. beginning Sunday, one day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

In high-pressure hearings last Friday, the Supreme Court appeared likely to rule in favor of the ban.

But even if the ban does go into effect, TikTok will not disappear from users’ phones. In fact, it will remain ...Read more

There’s less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term, and congressional Republicans are already working to preserve one of his signature policies.

The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday held a hearing on the future of Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul, as witnesses described what the cuts mean for American ...Read more

The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General’s Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control is determining whether President-elect Donald Trump is qualified to hold an interest in the liquor licenses at his New Jersey golf courses after he received a zero-punishment sentencing in his New York hush-money trial last Friday.

Since Trump’s felony ...Read more

This isn’t Melania Trump’s first rodeo.

The soon-to-be first lady (for the second time) sat down with "Fox & Friends" on Monday to reveal the game plan after husband Donald Trump takes office.

Apparently, she won’t be a full-time Washington, D.C., resident, preferring to split her time among three cities on an as-needed basis.

So expect...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate could vote Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, a Republican-led bill that mandates federal detention for immigrants who are charged with minor crimes and grants broad enforcement powers to states.

It passed the House earlier this month as the first bill taken up by the new, Republican-controlled Congress and moved forward ...Read more

Michelle Obama’s office released a statement Tuesday, saying that the former first lady will not accompany her husband to Donald Trump’s inauguration next Monday. It will be the second time in two weeks that she has missed a gathering of U.S. leaders and their spouses, after she also didn’t attend the Jan. 9 funeral of former President ...Read more

Today, the United States is navigating an increasingly unsettled world. The positions advising the president on national security are as important as ever. One such position, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is key to providing the president and Cabinet with timely intelligence and analysis.

So, what is the job of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order that opens federal land for private development of infrastructure and the energy supply needed to create advanced artificial intelligence models in the United States.

The order, which mentions “clean power” a dozen times, dovetails with other Biden administration ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When President-elect Donald Trump ends his inaugural address next week, a group of police and EMTs who responded to the assassination attempt on his life in Butler will lead a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.

The July assassination attempt at the Butler Farm Show Grounds — just days before the Republican National Convention �...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate GOP leaders’ push to split up President-elect Donald Trump’s fiscal priorities into two filibuster-proof budget packages has a bigger tactical disadvantage for House Republicans than commonly understood: They’d likely have to vote on two budget resolutions, never an easy task even with bigger majorities.

A budget ...Read more