Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with Democrats throughout a House hearing on Wednesday, with tensions flaring over the Iran war, the Pentagon’s whopping $1.5 trillion budget request and his ouster of top military officials.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), a former Air Force officer and member of the Armed Services Committee, pressed Hegseth on his firing of Gen. Randy George, the widely respected Army chief of staff.
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The Supreme Court declared Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional racial gerrymander on Wednesday, a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that weakens a central provision of the Voting Rights Act.
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New York City Zohran Mamdani (D) said Wednesday he would ask King Charles III to return the Koh-i-noor diamond if given the opportunity.
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The Supreme Court’s liberal justices called their colleagues’ decision clawing back race-based redistricting on Wednesday a “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act. Read more. |
Voters in Virginia last week approved a new, Democratic-friendly congressional map that could tip the fight for House control in the midterms, but Florida is on track to parry with a GOP-favored map that could offset those gains.
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) does not seem fond of the State Department’s plan to include President Trump’s likeness in new passport designs to commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence.
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President Trump said Wednesday that in order to end a blockade he imposed in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran would have to “cry uncle” and “give up” though the Iranians have given no indication they intend to do so anytime soon.
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A six-figure income used to be shorthand for “rich.” Now, it’s barely enough to get by in many parts of the country.
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