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President Donald Trump proclaimed the first ever Gulf of America Day from Air Force One on Sunday while en route…
David Asher, a long-time U.S. advisor on national security, appeared on Canada’s state-funded CBC news on Sunday to defend Trump’s…
On Thursday morning, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled to hear from U.S. President…
California Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman protested the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, claiming it violates the separation between church and state.…
The Trump Administration’s rapid moves to impose fiscal restraint on the sprawling federal bureaucracy will hit at least one governmental…
By choosing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as its first target for demolition, Elon Musk’s DOGE made a…
As Elon Musk moves to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agency’s support for the discovery of novel…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Wednesday joined with the attorneys general of 14 other states in issuing a statement…
More than 20,000 federal employees have announced their resignations in response to President Donald Trump’s severance offer, which would allow…
Standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday evening that America take over…
The Senate confirmed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in a…
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele extended an offer to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Monday meeting that…
A federal jury in late January indicted three people for their alleged involvement in a massive 400-acre illegal marijuana cultivation…
The Senate, in a bipartisan fashion, voted Monday evening to confirm fracking executive Chris Wright as secretary of Energy. Senators voted 59…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke on Monday morning and forged a temporary agreement to delay…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) on Monday published a thread on X outlining what steps Congress, federal courts and the…
American airstrikes targeted leaders of the Islamic State, or ISIS, in Somalia on Saturday and killed senior leaders of the…
A medical ambulance plane carrying a young child and her mother crashed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday night in a neighborhood…
Scores of green beanies lined the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday. The forest green hats with…
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) launched an investigation on Tuesday into the Denver, Colorado Public Schools District for converting…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered on Tuesday to give all federal employees nearly eight months of…
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced former U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) to 11 years in prison on Wednesday…
An American Airlines flight out of Wichita, Kansas crashed in the Washington D.C. area Wednesday night near the Reagan National…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memorandum freezing some federal grant spending that could have…
A week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations, cartel terrorists opened fire…
Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, faces a series of challenges to her…
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) put forward a bill last week that would prevent states from using either federal or state…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt of New Hampshire held the Trump Administration’s first official press briefing Tuesday afternoon. At…
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a statement from Colombian President Gustavo Petro in response to President Trump’s…
The United States Supreme Court is set to consider the constitutionality of the nation’s first religious charter school. Originating in…
The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s Secretary of Defense in a vote held late Friday night. With three…
President Donald Trump terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail provided by the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, a source…
President Donald Trump issued a full pardon on Thursday for 23 pro-life activists who were incarcerated after the Biden Administration…
President Donald Trump froze the ability of unelected bureaucrats at federal agencies to impose rules that affect the whole nation…
The U.S. State Department, under Trump’s chosen Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced its new “One Flag” policy, preventing federal…
Weeks after former President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of all but three federal death row inmates, President Donald Trump…
An illegal Haitian migrant openly praised former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden as Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins was one of just two Republicans to join Democrats on Thursday in voting against…
A sanctuary city mayor, who once suggested he’d use his police force to stop deportation officers and be willing to…
Republican lawmakers urged the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday to take “decisive action” against a Chinese military company that has…
President Donald Trump is working to make America beautiful again with a day-one executive order requiring new federal buildings to…
President Donald Trump was lectured about showing ‘mercy’ to illegal immigrants and transgender children during a sermon from a left-wing…
President Donald Trump signed a wide array of executive orders related to immigration policy and the southern border on his…
No member of Maine’s congressional delegation has been a supporter of President Donald Trump, with the only Republican, Sen. Susan…
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted Monday along party lines to send President Donald Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, Pete…
China on Sunday revealed a national action plan to strengthen its education system by 2035 and bolster the country’s “international…
The nine former members of the January 6 Select Committee appeared to accept preemptive pardons issued by former President Biden…
Donald J. Trump, once a twice-impeached political pariah navigating the stormy seas of legal battles, made history Monday by becoming…
At his final pre-inauguration rally on Sunday night, President Trump promised to order the military to begin construction on a…
President Donald Trump is expected to issue hundreds of Executive Orders on his first day in office, including several orders…
Just hours before leaving office, President Joe Biden issued presidential pardons for retired Gen. Mark A. Milley, former Chairman of…
State-sponsored Chinese hackers breached U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s computer, accessing thousands of unclassified documents in December, anonymous sources told…
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) is once again throwing his weight behind a Republican-led effort to bar Congress members from trading…
President Joe Biden released a statement Friday declaring that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) “has become part of our Constitution.”…
With three recent votes, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-CD1) has taken extreme positions on immigration and transgender ideology, including opposing…
Democratic Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared Golden has reintroduced his proposed bill that would implement a universal 10 percent…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced that they have authorized the marketing of a wide array…
After more than a year of war, Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal in which Hamas will return…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a plan on Tuesday to create a new External Revenue Service (ERS) to collect revenue from…
The Department of Defense (DOD) under President Joe Biden spent more in September than in any previous month since 2008,…
A blowtorch-wielding man subdued by Los Angeles residents in a viral online video is living in the United States unlawfully…
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, a decorated combat veteran and former Fox News host, faced…
A Republican Member of Congress wants to get rid of the Income Tax and move the United States to a…
A federal court in Kentucky has blocked the Biden Administration’s effort to redefine the term “sex” in Title IX to…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday morning in the case concerning a potential ban of the popular,…
Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill Thursday to allow concealed carry license holders to carry their guns in…
A universal basic income study published in November found that paying low-income Americans an average of $492 a month led…
President Joe Biden confirmed in an interview with USA Today that he is considering preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci…
King Frederik X of Denmark tweaked his country’s royal coat of arms to enlarge symbols of Greenland and the Faroe…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a new plan during a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Tuesday to rename the Gulf of Mexico…
President Joe Biden (D) signed the Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA) — authored by Sens. Susan Collins (R) and Sherrod…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized new regulations on Tuesday, prohibiting credit reporting agencies and lenders from considering medical…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a $20 billion foreign investment in new data centers Tuesday. The pronouncement came during Trump’s pre-inauguration press…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to resign from office Monday in the wake of a public dispute…
Pope Francis on Monday appointed a new cardinal with a liberal track record to head the archdiocese of Washington, D.C.…
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has officially been reelected as Speaker of the House, allowing lawmakers to move forward with their…
First lady Jill Biden collected tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders throughout 2023, according to documents…
A costly dockworkers’ strike could ignite just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, presenting the Republican’s administration with a…
President Joe Biden selected 20 Americans to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal on Wednesday, including former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney,…
The FBI issued an update Thursday on the terrorist attack that took place in the early hours of the day…
New York is poised to fine energy companies billions of dollars in the name of fighting climate change under a…
After taking heavy losses from Israeli forces, Hamas is now picking fights with the Palestinian Authority (PA) as its manpower…
President-elect Donald Trump (R) has endorsed Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to again serve as Speaker of the House for the…
Many of Maine’s elected officials have issued statements following the death of former President Jimmy Carter at the age of…
Senator Rand Paul released his annual Festivus Report highlighting the most egregious examples of government waste on Friday, as Elon…
A little-known environmental provision in the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has no impact on military operations,…
U.S. Congresswoman from Texas, Rep. Kay Granger (R), has been living in an assisted living facility that provides dementia care,…
The federal government under President Joe Biden has engaged in broad efforts to censor Americans’ speech and manipulate information relevant…
President-elect Donald Trump threatened in a Truth Social post Friday to impose tariffs on the European Union (EU) unless the…
Despite having one more month left in office, President Joe Biden has been radio silent as Congress scrambles to put…
President Joe Biden wasted no time leveraging a tragic Monday shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin,…
The U.S. House failed to pass a temporary continuing resolution (CR) funding bill on Thursday, bringing the government closer to…
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa introduced legislation Thursday that would send nearly a third of the federal employees out…
H5N1 bird flu has been making headlines sporadically throughout 2024, fueling fears of another, deadlier, COVID-style pandemic. On Thursday, the…
Retailer T.J. Maxx and automaker Kia are listed as co-sponsors of a program that distributes LGBTQ-themed books to K-12 schools…
The United States Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on January 10 in TikTok’s challenge to a federal…
United States Congressional leaders released another short-term funding agreement Tuesday night that, if passed, would keep the government open through…
The Fulshear, Texas, police department arrested Venezuelan national Pedro Luis Parra Pulgar, 46, after he allegedly tried to murder his…
Then-national climate adviser Gina McCarthy appears to have met directly with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in…