Kaitlan Collins had one of the stranger nights of her career Friday, winning a major award and getting mocked by the president in the very same room. The CNN chief White House correspondent received the Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure award at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Fellow CNN anchor … Read more
A quiet court filing just confirmed one of the biggest political stories in Washington this year, and it barely made headlines when it first happened. Federal officials admitted this month that they terminated $7.5 billion in grants “based solely” on political criteria, according to court documents reviewed by The New York Times. Here’s exactly what … Read more
Donald Trump made history at Friday night’s dinner, becoming the first sitting president in years to actually show up for it. The event was originally supposed to happen back in April. A gunman rushed a security checkpoint that night, forcing the entire dinner to be evacuated and postponed. Friday’s rescheduled gathering opened with Trump directly … Read more
Congress just moved one big step closer to ending America’s twice yearly clock ritual for good. The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act Tuesday by a wide 308-117 margin, sending real momentum behind permanent daylight saving time. Here’s exactly what the bill does. It would lock the entire country onto the time currently observed from … Read more
Thursday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing started like any routine confirmation markup. It didn’t stay that way for long. The panel was set to vote on three Trump nominees: Christopher Phelan for the Council of Economic Advisers, John Crews for the National Credit Union Administration, and Jeffrey Ledbetter for HUD’s inspector general post. Then Sen. Elizabeth … Read more
The war between the United States and Iran just entered its 13th consecutive night of strikes, and there’s still no ceasefire in sight. US Central Command confirmed Thursday’s strikes targeted Iranian military assets, marking nearly two weeks of continuous nightly action. Iranian state media reported the attacks hit multiple cities, including Khorramabad, Jask, Ahvaz, and … Read more
Congress just delivered a split verdict on America’s Iran war, and neither chamber’s vote actually stops it. The Senate rejected a war powers resolution Thursday in a tight 47-49 vote, falling just two votes short of advancing. Hours earlier, the House had gone the opposite direction, passing its own resolution 214-208, formally rebuking Trump’s handling … Read more
Chief Justice John Roberts just reshaped how much control any president has over federal agencies, and he did it in two rulings issued on the very same day. The bigger decision, Trump v. Slaughter, came down June 29 by a 6-3 vote, with Roberts writing for the majority. Here’s the background driving this case. President … Read more
The National Defense Authorization Act just passed the House, but one buried provision is generating far more noise than the bill’s massive price tag. That provision is Section 219, formally called the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. Here’s what it actually does. Section 219 would permanently embed Israeli defense technology into America’s military supply … Read more
The US Secret Service just delivered a warning that’s impossible to ignore. The threat environment protecting America’s leaders has never been this dangerous. Director Sean Curran made that assessment Wednesday during a rare public briefing at Secret Service headquarters in Washington. The numbers behind his statement are staggering. Nearly 10,000 investigations have opened this year … Read more