The Department of Justice is preparing to flood polling sites across America with up to 1,000 federal election monitors this November, potentially the largest such deployment in the agency's history.
Less than two weeks before the 25th anniversary of September 11, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick handed foreign ministers something money can't buy: small squares of steel melted down from the World Trade Center, each one a piece of the building where his brother Gary died alongside 657 of his colleagues.
A record-breaking 43-day shutdown orchestrated by congressional Democrats last year still fresh in memory, Republican lawmakers moved decisively this week to take the threat of another government closure off the table before November's midterm elections.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has single-handedly torpedoed at least four separate Democratic war powers resolutions since February, voting with Republicans to block his own party's attempts to restrict President Trump's military operations in Iran.
A former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Black, has filed a lawsuit against the House Oversight Committee after refusing to appear for a sworn deposition.
