Topline Bipartisan negotiators in Congress unveiled a $1.7 trillion government spending package early Tuesday morning that would fund the federal government for the rest of the current fiscal year and...
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Republican Rep.-Elect George Santos May Have Falsified His Employment, Educational, Philanthropic History, Report Finds
Topline Republican Rep.-Elect George Santos (N.Y.) may have fabricated nearly his entire resume, according to a New York Times investigation that found no records to support Santos’ claims about his e...
Senate Passes Stopgap Funding Bill, Averting Government Shutdown
Topline The Senate on Thursday passed a stopgap bill to fund the government for an additional week, staving off Friday’s looming government shutdown as lawmakers race to finalize a broader funding pac...
Biden Preparing For Record Levels Of Migrants At Southern Border—Here’s Why
Topline The Biden Administration is reportedly preparing for as many as 14,000 migrants to attempt unauthorized crossings of the southern border every day as soon as next week, when a controversial Co...
Key Republican presses Yellen to issue digital asset reporting rules
Rep. Patrick McHenry is urging the Treasury Department to issue clearer digital asset reporting rules as part of last year’s infrastructure bill and delay compliance requirements for the new rules. &...
Pro-fintech Republican McHenry officially named next House Financial Services chair
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., has been named the next chair of the House Financial Services Committee. The House Republican Steering Committee, which determines committee leadership positions, m...
Republican Infighting Complicates McCarthy’s Quest For House Speaker—Here’s What Could Actually Happen
Topline Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)’s once-firm prospects of claiming the gavel have fallen on shaky ground as the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, eyeing a power play under a slimmer-than-expected...
Some GOP Lawmakers Denounce Trump’s Call For ‘Termination’ Of Constitution
Topline Several Republican lawmakers criticized former President Donald Trump on Sunday for suggesting the U.S. should scrap parts of the Constitution and reinstate him as president, the latest round ...
Woman Claims He Attacked Her, Latest Story To Roil The Campaign
Topline Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is headed to a December 6 runoff election against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), after regular eruptions of negative stories about Walker’s past ...
SBF Hid Republican Donations So Media Wouldn’t ‘Freak the Fuck Out’
“I donated to both parties,” FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said in an interview with Tiffany Fong published Tuesday. “I donated about the same amount to both parties.&...
Insights on Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘dark’ Republican political donations
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) gave his first interview with “citizen journalist” Tiffany Fong post-collapse. The pair discussed multiple aspects of the FTX saga, including the “backdoor,” FTT...
Senate Passes Same-Sex Marriage Protection Bill In Bipartisan Vote
Topline The U.S. Senate passed a bill granting new federal protections for same-sex marriages Tuesday afternoon, sending the bill to the House after a 61-36 bipartisan vote, fulfilling a promise by De...
Pence And A Dozen GOP Senators Slam Trump Over Dinner With White Supremacist In Latest Republican Rift
Topline Former Vice President Mike Pence joined a large continent of high-profile Republicans on Monday calling out former President Donald Trump over his recent dinner with white supremacist Nick Fue...
Fauci to cooperate with House Republican into Covid origins
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus during the White House press briefing on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. Tom Williams...
Democrat Adam Frisch Concedes To Republican Lauren Boebert In Unexpectedly Close House Race
Topline After a surprisingly close race, Democratic House candidate Adam Frisch conceded to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a Trump ally who has been criticized for spreading baseless conspiracy theori...
Rep. Karen Bass Defeats Billionaire Rick Caruso
Topline Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) beat billionaire real estate tycoon Rick Caruso in Los Angeles’ mayoral election, staving off a surprisingly competitive challenge from a tough-on-crime former Repub...
Rick Scott To Challenge Mitch McConnell As Senate Republican Leader
Topline Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told fellow Republican senators Tuesday he will run against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in Wednesday’s election for GOP Senate leader, in the ...
Trump Attacks McConnell For Republican Midterm Losses In Latest Push For GOP Leader’s Ouster
Topline Former President Donald Trump assailed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell following Republicans’ failure to win control of the Senate, accusing McConnell in a series of Truth Social posts ...
Democrats Retain Senate As Nevada Re-Elects Cortez Masto
Topline Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto won the Nevada Senate race, keeping Democrats in control of the Senate with 50 seats (and Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote), and sending yet another...
Republican J.D. Vance Defeats Democrat Tim Ryan In Key Midterm Contest
Topline Republican J.D. Vance has won Ohio’s Senate race, edging out Rep. Tim Ryan (D), after a tight contest where Vance’s celebrity status and alignment with former President Donald Trump aided his ...
Arizona Vote-Counting Issues Lead To Baseless Fraud Claims—And Contradictory Advice—From GOP Leaders
Topline Some vote-counting machines in Arizona’s Maricopa County malfunctioned on Election Day, leading state Republican leaders to spread unsubstantiated claims of fraud and offer contradictory advic...
Crypto Has Prepared for Divided US Government, Republican Rise
“Split control of the federal government could bode well for future crypto policy and regulation,” said Kristin Smith, executive director of the Blockchain Association in Washington. “In the current C...
Some GOP Counties Want To Hand-Count All Ballots—But Judges Say That’s Illegal
Topline A judge on Monday blocked a rural Arizona county from moving forward with a plan by Republican officials to hand-count every ballot cast in Tuesday’s midterm, shutting down the latest attempt ...
Trump Stops Short Of Announcing 2024 Presidential Run At Pre-Midterm Rally—But Teases ‘Very Big Announcement’ Next Week
Topline Donald Trump did not announce plans to run for a second term as president during a rally in Ohio late Monday, despite speculation that his quest to return to the White House could kick off on ...
Musk Breaks ‘Politically Neutral’ Twitter Promise After Endorsing Republicans In Midterms
Topline Elon Musk pleaded on Twitter Monday for voters to back Republican candidates a day before midterm elections, the strongest indicator yet of how the world’s wealthiest man will use his newly ac...
FTX’s SBF has made donations to Republican and Democrat parties
According to reports of campaign donations, FTX Trading Ltd. has emerged as the third-largest source of funding for Democratic candidates, behind the megadonor George Soros and the cardboard box produ...
Republican Wave Promises Shift In America’s Energy Policy
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell R-KY speaks to the media after a Republican policy luncheon … [+] at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/A...
Over 50% of Democrat and Republican voters agree crypto is ‘the future of finance’
The digital currency asset manager, Grayscale Investments, announced on November 1 the findings of a new national survey to investigate how Americans view the current state of the economy and cryptocu...
A 2nd Woman Claims He Paid For Abortion, Latest Story To Roil The Campaign
Topline Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker remains close in the polls with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) despite regular eruptions of negative stories about Walker’s past that began almost...