US politics

US politics

A former girlfriend of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has accused him of offering a $5,000 hush money payment, the accusation dropping just days before Massie's May 19 primary in Kentucky. Axios' Marc Caputo and Kate Santaliz spoke with Cynthia West's about her new accusations against Massie, which the congressman's campaign dismissed as a last-minute dirty trick in the campaign.

The viral footage showed McConnell attempting to conclude a Senate hearing, thanking those who'd attended, before a staffer approached him, placing a hand on his shoulder and quietly informing him: Baldwin, Shaheen, and Kennedy still have questions. McConnell then shifted course, telling the room: Yeah, obviously there's not a whole lot of time for a second round, so we'll get through everybody and Senator Murkowski, I'd appreciate your taking over.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche warned reporters to expect subpoenas on Tuesday, one day after The Wall Street Journal reported that it had been subpoenaed in connection with criminal investigations launched by the Department of Justice. President [Donald] Trump privately complained to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about media leaks in the wake of the Iran war last month, according to administration officials familiar with the matter, prompting an aggressive push at the Justice Department to pursue those investigations, reported the Journal.

A super PAC dedicated to reelecting Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine recently put nearly $2 million behind television and YouTube ads attacking likely Democratic candidate Graham Platner. The spots, which began airing more than a month before the June 9 Democratic primary, focus exclusively on decade-old personal social-media posts and a tattoo Platner got as a young man and has since covered up. There is no discussion of policy, voting records, or Platner's platform as a Marine veteran running as a working-class populist. Instead, the ads-focused on the theme "Who Is The Real Graham Platner?"-center entirely on personal attacks, financed largely by out-of-state billionaires and Republican-aligned "dark money" groups seeking to preserve Collins's seat and the GOP Senate majority.

The War Powers Resolution is pretty clear here. It requires the president to terminate hostilities within 60 days absent congressional authorization. I think it's important that we in Congress actually assert our own role and responsibility to this. That 60-day clock expired April 28th, and then on the 1st, the administration sent letters to congressional leaders asserting that the hostilities have ended.

As Hegseth gave his opening statement, a woman suddenly stood up behind him and began shouting. The nearest security guard quickly approached her as she continued shouting. In response, Hegseth simply stopped reading his statement and continued looking forward. He did not turn around to see the commotion. The woman was then escorted out of the chamber.

The Trump administration is seeking to use eminent domain to take about 14 acres of land from the Catholic Church in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. Officials suggest that just compensation for the land is $183,071, according to the legal complaint.

Somebody told me there was something floating around on the internet about me accusing President Obama of stealing $120 million or something. I didn't say that. I don't know the basis of it, added the Louisiana Republican, who is a close ally of Trump.

“Well, first of all, this is a temporary energy shock,” Hassett insisted. “And that’s very clearly in the data. And so, the history of this is that people at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere tend to peer through energy shocks and use core CPI to forecast the future, not the energy shock data.”

Well, in the first place, the number of things the Trump administration is doing on health care is astonishing. And, in fact, it's so much, nobody can cover it. And so across the board, they're doing things from helping have children at a young age to dealing with diabetes, to progress on Alzheimer's, to working on cost. It's really quite astonishing. And that part of it was terrific, Gingrich said, reacting to Trump launching moms.gov, a new maternal healthcare initiative aimed at supporting expecting mothers.

You literally are taking Memphis, that is a city with Black voters, and you split it in three, stretching three thousand miles, Allison said. Whose the current Democrat congressman, or is it a Black congressman? Jennings asked. Allison who worked in the Obama-Biden Administration and later served as the National Coalitions Director for the Biden-Harris campaign in 2020 responded, just because Black people are allowed to like people that don't look like them.

The declines show up across every major region, suggesting a systemic, nationwide trend. The quarterly reports collected by the Major Cities Chiefs Association have been a good measure of trends that are reflected in the annual FBI crime data released in the fall. By the numbers: Homicides dropped 17.7%. Robberies fell 20.4%. Rapes declined 7.2%. Aggravated assaults decreased 4.8%.