SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As then-Gov. Kristi Noem crisscrossed the country — stumping for President Donald Trump and boosting her political profile beyond her home state — she refused to reveal what her extensive travel was costing taxpayers. In the weeks since Noem became Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, that mystery has been solved: South […]

At least five states have active measles outbreaks as of Friday, and Texas’ is the largest with 400 cases. Already, the U.S. has more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said. Other states with outbreaks — defined as three or more cases — […]

CNN  —  A close call between a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and a US Air Force T-38 jet, often used by the military for training, sounded alarms in the cockpit of the passenger plane Friday. Delta 2983 was departing Reagan Airport around 3:15 p.m. and heading […]

While the Trump administration is optimistic about the country’s growth prospects—Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick going so far as to say Americans should “absolutely not” prepare for a recession—economists are voicing gloomy forecasts. Moody’s Chief Economist Mark Zandi on Thursday compared the current levels of uncertainty to those seen during 9/11 and the 2008 financial crash, […]

That escalated quickly: Katrina Armstrong is out as president of Columbia University just seven months into the job, the school announced Friday night. Her replacement is Claire Shipman, the Columbia board member and longtime ABC journo who is married to former Obama press secretary Jay Carney. “The news comes just weeks into Columbia’s standoff with […]

Shipman, a former ABC and CNN journalist, has close ties to Biden and Obama through husband Jay Carney Katrina Armstrong (Columbia) and Claire Shipman (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong stepped down on Friday amid the Ivy League school’s protracted battle with the Trump administration, Columbia announced in a statement. Her replacement, […]

Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network has received millions of dollars from prominent labor unions whose bosses frequently appear on the controversial activist’s MSNBC show, often without any disclosure about their lucrative financial ties. In the past year alone, Sharpton, who hosts PoliticsNation on the weekends, has interviewed the presidents of five unions that have […]

‘My background is rooted in agriculture, small business and helping women entrepreneurs,’ Cooke says Wisconsin House candidate Rebecca Cooke (X) A Democrat running for Congress in Wisconsin, Rebecca Cooke, prides herself on lacking “a career background in politics.” But the twice-failed candidate served on a key panel for a D.C.-based dark money group disguised as […]

The news that senior members of the Trump administration’s foreign policy team inadvertently invited a critical journalist onto a group chat that discussed the Yemen bombing campaign has roiled Washington. After two months of disruption, the Beltway is settling into its first classic scandal of this presidential term. But while Americans argue about classification standards […]

President Trump took aim at collective bargaining for federal employees in certain agencies with an executive order he signed Thursday. The order, which was taken to “enhance the national security” of the U.S., applies to numerous agencies and their subdivisions, including the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Health and Human Services, Commerce, Veterans Affairs and […]