Cory Booker, a senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, didn’t take bathroom breaks or wander far from his desk during his record-breaking speech. Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech Senator Cory Booker delivered the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history, breaking the record set by segregationist Sen. Thurmond in 1957. Sen. Cory … Read more
Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow warns DNC about Project 2025 Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow brought a giant copy of Project 2025 to warn the 2024 National Democratic Convention about the Republican policy agenda. Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Gary Peters. McMorrow … Read more
Some US businesses ‘very concerned’ as Trump tariffs set for April 2 Businesses are readying for President Donald Trump’s import tariffs coming in April with mixed reactions from different industries. President Donald Trump will unveil his global tariffs plan today at a 4 p.m. event in the White House Rose Garden − shortly after the … Read more
Ex-NFL kicker Jay Feely considering running for US Congress
Good morning!🙋🏼♀️ I’m Nicole Fallert. I want to sit in peace with these elephants. Take a glimpse at Wednesday’s news: President Trump decides size of tariffs President Donald Trump plans to launch sweeping reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday. Though details surrounding Trump’s economic policy remain unclear, Trump has promoted his Wednesday announcement as “the big one,” calling the … Read more
Alvaro Murillo | Reuters SAN JOSE, April 1 (Reuters) – Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.” Arias, 84, … Read more
Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali | Reuters WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reinforced U.S. military capability in the Middle East with more warplanes, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, amid a more than two-week-old U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen and mounting tensions with Iran. The Pentagon’s brief statement did not … Read more
James Mackenzie | Reuters JERUSALEM, April 2 (Reuters) – Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population. Israeli leaders have been encouraged by signs of protest in Gaza against … Read more
In every corner of the FDA, and at sister health agencies like the CDC, support staff, specialists, and scientists were hit with DOGE pink slips. ‘We’re going to consolidate:’ RFK, Jr. on HHS layoffs 10,000 job cuts expected at HHS as part of major restructuring. Fox – 5 NY Top officials at the FDA were … Read more
