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Two experts have raised concerns about the relationship between President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. According to The Hill's David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler, Congress has shifted its approach to governing under unified party control."Past presidents have treated unified government — that is, one-party control of the White House and Congress — as an opportunity to enact bold legislative agendas," the experts wrote. "Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal reshaped banking protections and labor law and started Social Security. Lyndon Johnson's

Chief Justice John Roberts made a rare public appearance last year to defend his Supreme Court colleagues from criticism that they were overturning decades-old precedent, according to CNN reporter John Fritze.Roberts has sought to rebut accusations that the court is partisan, pointing to its record since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. However, Fritze examined Roberts' claims against the court's actions.The court has overruled Humphrey's Executor, which protected federal employees from being fired by the president without cause; aspects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which addressed discriminatory gerrymandering; and Chevron v. Natural Res

The Trump administration has called on TV network ABC to “take a stand” after a joke from its late night comedy host Jimmy Kimmel offended the US president and first lady.Two days before the White House Correpondents’ dinner on April 25, Kimmel broadcast what he said was a “roast” of the Trump administration. Roasts are typically quite savage comedic attacks which have become a traditional part of the dinner. Trump, who was famously the target of jokes from former president, Barack Obama, at a dinner in 2

I’m not going to dwell on this week’s outrages by Trump and his regime — his Supreme Court appointees gutting the Voting Rights Act, his bizarre claim that his war doesn’t require congressional approval because it’s “terminated,” his murders of additional sailors he suspects of smuggling drugs, his ongoing ICE raids, his continuing efforts to use the Justice Department to punish perceived enemies, his renewed attempts to silence comedians such as Jimmy Kimmel, his giant self-aggrandizing triumphal arch (what triumph?) and grotesque ballroom, his never-ending corruption and lies.Yet in the midst of this cataclysm, the backlash against Trump is growing. Your work has been critical — your demonstration

During President Donald Trump’s first term, he bemoaned the failure of his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to protect him from the Justice Department’s investigation of Russia’s efforts to elect Trump in 2016.“Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Trump erupted, referring to his notorious former fixer who had also been Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s hatchet man during the 1950s Senate hearings into communist activity. Trump later fired Sessions. For a time, Attorney General William Barr was the answer. But the two men parted ways after Barr told him repeatedly that no evidence supported Trump’s obsessive claims that voter fraud had cost him the 2020 election.In Trump’s second term, it appeared that

I just opened an online image so beautiful it stopped my thoughts, cut them off midstream so efficiently I forgot where they were going.The image, captured in this glorious video from Renee Volpe, shows a bird constructing its home from young leaves she sews together with leaf thread. She suspends her architectural marvel from an attached leaf (almond tree?), a condo perched between branches, shielded from rain and

An anonymous U.S. defense official revealed the branches of the U.S. military learned of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany “in real time,” without prior knowledge of the intended move, the AP reported Saturday.Trump on Wednesday announced via a Truth Social post that his administration was “studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany.”The announcement followed an assessment by German Chancellor

President Donald Trump is in a rock and hard place with a valuable Florida constituency, reports Politico.Miami’s Cuban American community is keeping the heat on Trump to oust the regime in Cuba, but Republicans appear terrified of another war on the heels of a hotly unpopular attack on Iran, which has ballooned inflation and gas prices in time for the midterms.“Cuban opposition activists, especially in South Florida, h

President Donald Trump rarely faces dissent from his Republican Party members in the House and Senate — but this is an election year, and Trump’s polls are doing big damage to his GOP buddies.U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) is one such Republican who does not represent a "safe" seat in a bruising 2026 midterm. Bacon holds a highly competitive swing seat in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes the urban area of Omaha. He managed to nab a narrow 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent victory in 2024 largely thanks to suburban support.

Atlantic reporter Neil Flanagan says there are many reasons to consider President Donald Trump’s gold-dripping ballroom design a visual affront, but the offense goes much further than overwrought tacky displays of taxpayer-funded wealth.“Foregrounding the infrastructure that keeps the presidency safe undermines the democratic symbolism of the White House,” said Flanagan. “