Michigan Democrats are facing internal strife as the 2026 U.S. Senate primary looms, with the Israel-Hamas conflict threatening to deepen divisions within the party.
The Trump administration has lifted a month-long stop-work order on the $5 billion Empire Wind offshore wind project off New York’s coast, allowing construction to resume.
During a heated House Appropriations Committee hearing on May 14, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended significant departmental reforms and addressed concerns over his vaccine stances amid a national measles outbreak.
On May 8, 2025, First Lady Melania Trump hosted a ceremony in the East Room of the White House to unveil a new U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring former First Lady Barbara Bush.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on May 9, 2025, during a confrontation at the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark, New Jersey.
President Donald Trump’s upcoming Gulf tour has stirred tensions in Jerusalem, raising concerns that U.S. strategic priorities in the region may be shifting—despite warm rhetoric between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki denied witnessing any cognitive decline in former President Joe Biden during her time with the White House, insisting she “never saw that person—not a single time,” referring to Biden’s shaky debate performance in June 2024.
California State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas has introduced Senate Bill 560, proposing to decriminalize certain instances of welfare fraud involving amounts under $25,000.
White House border czar Tom Homan stated Monday that Joe Biden is the first president in U.S. history to intentionally leave the southern border unsecured.
