2+ min ago  (1746+ words) President Donald Trump has rejected Iran's proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz, as the U. S. military prepares to launch another wave of attacks. Trump told Axios Wednesday that he would reject Iran's proposal to allow trade through the Strait of…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1745+ words) Senator Ted Cruz is defending late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, Disney, from the FCC." The Texas Republican blasted the agency's decision to demand an early review of Disney's broadcast licenses following a joke Kimmel told on…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago  (1772+ words) The crew of NASA's Artemis II visited the White House Wednesday to celebrate their successful mission around the moon, but they ended up roped into one of the president's diatribes against NATO. The astronauts were visibly uncomfortable flanking Donald Trump…...

3+ hour, 36+ min ago  (1719+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth went before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday to defend the mammoth $1. 5 trillion budget request submitted by the Department of Defense. But under questioning from Representative Adam Smith of Washington, the Christian nationalist and noted…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago  (1739+ words) Florida's House of Representatives approved a gerrymandered congressional map drawn by Republican Governor Ron De Santis's office'less than one hour after the Supreme Court decided to gut the Voting Rights Act. The legislature voted 8328 Wednesday morning to approve the new…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1742+ words) The Trump administration is failing to explain how the U. S. is coming out on top in the Iran war. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday to defend the DOD's latest budget requests, but he…...

5+ hour, 16+ min ago  (1820+ words) Justice Department attorneys are decamping from the Trump administration, leaving behind an enormous staffing void within the nation's top law enforcement agency. Thousands of experienced attorneys and staff have left the DOJ since Donald Trump returned to office, choosing a…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago  (1771+ words) Pam Bondi may think that being fired as attorney general gets her out of a congressional subpoena, but the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform disagrees. After missing her scheduled deposition April 14, Bondi will now testify before the committee…...

4+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1801+ words) On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 63 to render the Voting Rights Act obsolete. Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor all dissented. In a scathing 48-page opinion, Kagan, joined by her fellow liberal justices, warned the ruling "demolishes…...

5+ hour, 56+ min ago  (1815+ words) The Supreme Court just threw out Louisiana's redrawn congressional map in a huge blow to the Voting Rights Act, an essential pillar of the Civil Rights Movement. In a 63 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana's…...