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Air travel halt prompts calls for FAA communications upgrades
WASHINGTON — Transportation leaders in Congress said the Federal Aviation Administration’s Friday move to stop all U.S. flights from taking off highlights the need to pump more funding into modernizing the agency’s antiquated air traffic control communications systems.
The FAA on Friday afternoon issued a highly unusual nationwide ground ...Read more
Democrats press Trump administration for answers as nationwide ground stop grips US air travel
WASHINGTON — Democrats are demanding answers about Friday’s temporary ground stoppage on all flights in the United States and the apparent communications issue that affected air traffic control centers.
The ground stop crippled air travel and raised a variety of questions about the nation’s aging air traffic control systems.
In an ...Read more
Rep. Lauren Boebert loses to Democrat Eileen Laubacher in Colorado's 4th Congressional District
DENVER — Democrat Eileen Laubacher unseated U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District as final vote tallies updated Friday, 10 days after the polls closed.
The Associated Press called the race for Laubacher, a retired Naval rear admiral, at 12:53 p.m. in Colorado’s most right-leaning district. The vote showed ...Read more
Court to hear challenge to sealed warrant behind search of Ilhan Omar's home
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for next week regarding the effort by the Minnesota Star Tribune and other news media to compel the U.S. Department of Justice to unseal a warrant for a search conducted last month at the Washington, D.C., home of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
Homeland Security Investigations agents carried boxes of ...Read more
Trump's 'invasion' asylum ban to face justices
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a challenge to President Donald Trump’s claims that an “invasion” at the southern border can be used to deny asylum claims by refugees.
The Trump administration had asked the justices to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that held ...Read more
Bipartisan process for picking GAO chief breaks down
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders have skipped a bipartisan deliberative process for recommending the next comptroller general to head the Government Accountability Office, as lawmakers prepare to consider a nomination for the post from President Donald Trump.
Sources said Trump is planning to nominate Eric Ueland, who currently serves as ...Read more
Supreme Court agrees to rule on Trump's asylum ban at the southern border
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday it will rule on President Donald Trump’s ban on asylum claims at the southern border, testing a key part of his hard-line policy on immigration.
At issue is a clash between the promise of asylum for those fleeing persecution and the reality of a border overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands who...Read more
Rep. Lauren Boebert loses to Democrat Eileen Laubacher in Colorado's 4th Congressional District
DENVER — Democrat Eileen Laubacher unseated U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District as final vote tallies updated Friday, 10 days after the polls closed.
The Associated Press called the race for Laubacher, a retired Naval rear admiral, at 12:53 p.m. in Colorado’s most right-leaning district. The vote showed ...Read more
Supreme Court agrees to rule on Trump's asylum ban at the southern border
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday it will rule on President Donald Trump’s ban on asylum claims at the southern border, testing a key part of his hard-line policy on immigration.
At issue is a clash between the promise of asylum for those fleeing persecution and the reality of a border overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands who...Read more
Conservative firebrand Lauren Boebert ousted in Colorado
DENVER — Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken conservative and Second Amendment provocateur, lost her bid for a fourth term to Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired rear admiral in the Navy.
Laubacher was leading 48.8 percent to 47.9%, a margin of 3,441 votes, when The Associated Press called the race on Friday.
The red-hued 4th ...Read more
Rep. Lauren Boebert loses to Democrat Eileen Laubacher in Colorado's 4th Congressional District
DENVER — Democrat Eileen Laubacher unseated U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District as final vote-counting ended Friday, 10 days after the polls closed.
The Associated Press called the race for Laubacher, a retired Naval rear admiral, at 12:53 p.m. in Colorado’s most right-leaning district. The vote showed ...Read more
North Carolina voted out potentially 58 years of experience. What does that mean?
WASHINGTON — North Carolina voters decimated their current congressional delegation, electing at least seven new members to the next Congress, and potentially losing 58 years of collective experience.
“Congress runs on seniority, and we just lost a lot of seniority from the North Carolina congressional delegation,” said Chris Cooper, a ...Read more
Calls for Nvidia probes, new chip export limits intensify
WASHINGTON — The resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday did little to quell bipartisan demands from Congress for an accounting of potential national security fallout from his affair with an alleged Chinese spy and talk of adding tougher chip export controls to the annual defense authorization bill.
Huang admitted on Sunday to ...Read more
Miami man threatened to kill Rubio and Noem -- and FBI found disturbing notes
MIAMI — A Miami man who threatened to execute Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in a series of social media posts was sentenced to two years in federal prison after investigators discovered disturbing writings in his home, including a note about shooting Cubans in the United States.
“Both ...Read more
Legislative Branch bill would hold off on GAO cuts
WASHINGTON — With stopgap funding set to expire in less than a month, Senate Republican appropriators Thursday unveiled a roughly $5.3 billion draft fiscal 2027 Legislative Branch spending bill that would boost security funding and sidestep contentious debates over a key watchdog.
The proposal would provide $965 million for Capitol Police, a ...Read more
Republican gerrymandering worked pretty well in Texas and Florida, even if it backfired in North Carolina and Ohio
During the 2026 election cycle, Republicans enacted a series of gerrymanders – a form of partisan redistricting – in a handful of states to give them a disproportionate edge over Democrats in their congressional delegations. Democrats responded with a successful redistricting effort in California and an unsuccessful one in Virginia.
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South Florida man sentenced for online threat that Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem 'will be executed'
FORT LEADERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida resident has begun serving a two-year federal prison sentence for threatening posts he made online against Trump administration officials Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem earlier this year.
Jon Christopher Enriquez, 47, of Miami, pleaded guilty in August to three counts of transmitting threats through ...Read more
Former VP Mike Pence blames Trump, tariffs, for Dem's midterm 'blue wave'
Former Vice President Mike Pence is blaming President Donald Trump’s economic policies, foreign policy and the “perception of self-dealing and corruption” to blame for the nationwide success of Democrats in the midterm elections, saying the Republican Party has “lost our way.”
Pence made the comments in an exclusive one-on-one ...Read more
Ex-Nvidia CEO should testify before Congress, Rep. John Moolenaar says
WASHINGTON — A Michigan lawmaker who chairs a U.S. House select committee on U.S. competition with China is calling on former Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang to testify before Congress.
“We are in discussions, and we want this to happen, hopefully voluntarily. But it's important, whether it's voluntarily or subpoena, that this take place ...Read more
Donald Trump Jr. out as Kalshi adviser following midterms
Donald Trump Jr. is leaving his role as an adviser to Kalshi Inc., ending a role that has created political headaches for the prediction market platform.
The departure comes as Democrats take power in Congress with promises to scrutinize the Trump family’s business ties to prediction markets and the crypto industry.
Trump Jr. has been an ...Read more
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