Politics

A House Foreign Affairs committee hearing ended abruptly Tuesday after the committee chair, Republican Rep. Keith Self of Texas, misgendered Democrat Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware, who is transgender.

An existing power-sharing agreement reached last month will keep a Republican speaker in power in the state House.

A House hearing ended abruptly ended Tuesday after an exchange between a Republican and a Democratic committee member over the GOP chair’s misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, speaks after the House narrowly passed a funding bill, which will be sent to the Senate.

The Education Department on Tuesday announced a drastic reduction in its workforce, saying it’s preparing to cut about half of its staff.

House Republicans passed a six-month spending bill Tuesday that would avert a partial government shutdown and keep agencies funded through September. The legislation now heads to the Senate.

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it would immediately lift its suspension of military aid to Ukraine and its intelligence sharing with Kyiv.

Aileen Reneau, 30, had worked at the Federal Emergency Management Agency for less than a year, helping to train first responders at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, the only such facility in the country. She was also deployed to North Carolina for six weeks after Hurricane Helene. 

The U.S. stock market’s sell-off accelerated as worries built about pain for the economy because of tariffs and other policies by President Donald Trump.

Elon Musk and Sen. Mark Kelly sparred on social media Monday, with the tech billionaire calling the Arizona Democrat a “traitor” over a series of posts in support of Ukraine and its people, NBC News reported.

In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly focused on vitamin A, including from cod liver oil, and two non-standard medications as treatments for measles.

The show will be available on Prime Video for the first time, highlighting links between Trump’s time as a reality TV host and his presidential terms.

At 83 years old, Bernie Sanders has emerged as an unlikely leader of the Democratic resistance to Donald Trump.