Progressive champion Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is weighing in on New York City’s Democratic mayoral race, with a long-expected endorsement coming less than three weeks before the city’s June 24th primary. Ocasio-Cortez, the four-term lawmaker who represents a congressional district in the Bronx and Queens and New York…
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Another Crossing The Rubicon Moment In a new executive order, President Trump has unleashed his White House counsel and attorney general to conduct a wide-ranging investigation of his predecessor and…
FIRST ON FOX: A top NAACP official in Cleveland was captured on video explaining how her organization will be giving “justice” awards to school board members in the state who openly defy the Trump administration’s federal push to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in schools. “We have some school board…
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday sounded the alarm on alleged Transportation Security Administration (TSA) “corruption,” accusing a longtime Democratic senator of lobbying the Biden administration to have her husband removed from a watchlist despite him allegedly flying with a “known or suspected terrorist.” New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s…
The Trump presidency is mired in litigation, facing some 250 lawsuits over its hailstorm of executive orders, substantially more orders than had been filed at this point during his first term. The unprecedented flood of legal action has for the moment scotched some of Trump’s signature priorities, but courts have…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Wednesday described the House-passed GOP policy package as a “work in progress” but projected confidence that President Trump’s legislative agenda would make it through the Senate in some form. In an interview on right-leaning Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Kennedy addressed criticism from tech billionaire Elon…
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is testifying Thursday morning before the House Education and Workforce Committee on the department’s policy and priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. The hearing comes as the Labor Department’s fiscal 2026 budget request includes significant cuts to federal job programs — including Job Corps — and…
This article first appeared at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting…
Former president says investigation of decision making in office is designed to take focus off ‘disastrous legislation’ Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of “distraction” after he launched an investigation into the former Democratic president’s time in office, claiming Biden’s top aides had covered up his cognitive decline and taken decisions…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s nod comes after a heated debate in which Mamdani sparred with Andrew Cuomo Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed insurgent democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s closely watched mayoral race. In the heavily Democratic city, all eyes have been on the looming party primary for the…
There are all sorts of checks and balances baked into the Constitution. But one power sits above the law, untouched by Congress, immune to the courts and utterly unaccountable: the presidential pardon. It is the kind of absolute authority you’d expect in a monarchy, not a democracy. The Founding Fathers…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday endorsed socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race just days before early voting kicks off. “Assemblymember Mamdani has demonstrated a real ability on the ground to put together a coalition of working-class New Yorkers that is strongest to lead the…
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said late Wednesday that President Trump’s revived travel ban is meant to “distract” the nation from what he described as “super unpopular” aspects of the massive GOP policy package working its way through Congress. During an interview on MSNBC’s “The Briefing with Jen Psaki,” the Senate…
A trade court ruling is exposing the civil war on the right, as key legal establishment figures oppose the president Donald Trump’s trade war has become his quagmire: legal, economic and political. On 28 May, the court of international trade ruled his tariffs exceeded his constitutional authority. Point by point,…
Caracas describes US government as fascist, Somalia vows to address security and Iranian Americans express regret US politics live – latest updates Venezuela has hit back over the Trump administration’s travel ban by warning that the US itself is a dangerous place, while Somalia immediately pledged to work with Washington…
Frontrunners Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani sparred on stage as all candidates said they’d stand up to Trump In the first debate of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, nine candidates took the stage and fielded questions on housing, affordability, crime, policing, public safety, political regrets and how each…
Young voters are worried about their financial future and rising costs, advocacy organisation NextGen America says Young people in the US are looking for Democrats to embrace economic populism and authentic candidates willing to fight for them, says the new leader of a group dedicated to youth voter mobilisation. Victoria…
Child predators, gang members and human traffickers were among the 142 criminal illegals deported to Mexico by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officials in the Houston area in just the last two weeks. According to an ICE statement on Tuesday, the criminal immigrants were deported between May 19 and…
A federal judge in Washington state on Tuesday granted Denver and other local governments a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s threats to withhold federal funding for transportation programs. Denver and dozens of other plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in May, claiming that the Trump administration’s threats to withhold an estimated…
The nine candidates faced off on Wednesday in the first of two debates before a primary election later this month Nine Democratic candidates for New York City mayor faced off on Wednesday evening in the first of two debates ahead of this month’s primary election. Held without a live audience,…