Author: Jack Birle

The Golden State is a Democratic Party stronghold, but Republicans feel optimistic about the future as they pick their new state party leader. California Republicans elected Corrin Rankin as the new state party chairwoman at their convention over the weekend, months after some down-ballot victories despite the state still heavily favoring Democrats. In remarks after…

Ex-independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called out several of her former Democratic colleagues over their apparent changing stances on eliminating the filibuster. In January 2022, Sinema and then-West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin were the two Democratic senators to prevent the filibuster from being axed, and both maintained their support for the Senate tactic for the…

A U.N. judge from Uganda was convicted by a British jury of forcing a woman to work as a slave. Lydia Mugambe, who was appointed as a U.N. judge of the mechanism in 2023, allegedly tricked another Ugandan woman to come to the United Kingdom and work for her as a maid and child care…

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) became the third Senate Democrat to publicly support advancing the House-passed stopgap funding bill as a government shutdown looms. The Senate will vote on cloture Friday for the spending bill to keep the government funded at current levels through the end of September, with $8 billion more in defense spending…

President Donald Trump is delivering remarks at the Justice Department. Trump’s remarks from the DOJ in Washington, D.C., are expected to begin at 3 p.m. TRUMP TO APPEAR AT DOJ HEADQUARTERS AMID MAJOR REFORMS UNDER BONDI The president’s speech comes as Attorney General Pam Bondi outlined several reforms to the Justice Department after Trump alleged…

Former Wyoming Republican senator Alan Simpson died on Friday at the age of 93 after decades of work in politics. Simpson died surrounded by friends and family after “struggling to recover from a broken hip in December,” according to a statement from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Simpson served in the Senate from…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he would support advancing the House-passed continuing resolution, but he also wants Washington, D.C.’s, local budget restored if cuts are made in the GOP stopgap. The stopgap spending bill passed in the House earlier this week would cut the local D.C. government’s 2025 budget by 16%. D.C. Mayor…

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the U.S. Postal Service signed an agreement with the General Services Administration and the Department of Government Efficiency aiming to improve the efficiency of the USPS. The USPS has undertaken a 10-year plan, titled Delivering for America, aimed at fixing the agency’s poor fiscal standing and operations and transforming it…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and House Democratic leadership are not changing their stance on the GOP-led stopgap funding bill, even after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) signaled his willingness to support it. The continuing resolution, which is expected to get a vote in the Senate on Friday, will need at least eight…

The House Oversight Committee is examining the military’s use of airspace near Washington following the deadly midair collision over the Potomac River in January, which is already under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. The Jan. 29 crash between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter killed all 67 people on board both…