Three House committee chairs are asking a former Biden White House counsel to comply with their investigation into Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue, after the counsel in her private practice issued a blistering review of ActBlue’s process for screening out foreign contributions.

Ohio legislative Republicans have not committed to an override of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill requiring voter ID for absentee ballots, but they did offer strong criticism of their fellow GOP members.

In the fourth and final decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mullin v. Doe, a case concerning whether the Administration may terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations. 

The action thriller Citizen Vigilante, written and directed by Uwe Boll, was posted to X platform on Thursday. "We made the decision to have that movie available for the whole world to see on X," Boll said.

Six of the 10 candidates who have qualified for the primary election ballot to represent Tennessee's 9th Congressional District on Thursday appeared for a bipartisan candidate forum held by the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, and the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association, revealing dramatically different visions for how the candidates would represent rural constituents if elected. The first candidate to offer their vision to rural voters in the newly redrawn district was State Senator London Lamar (D-Nashville), who suggested she could use her legislative experience in the Tennessee General Assembly to bridge the gap between the district's rural, suburban, and urban areas.

Postmaster General David Steiner told senators during a hearing Wednesday that he plans to abide by the Trump administration's rule regarding not delivering mail-in ballots in states that decline to hand over sensitive data about voters to the federal government. The proposed rule faces court challenges and Steiner said he would follow any court ruling on the matter, but will follow the rule until an order blocks it. The proposed rule seeks to create lists of citizens in each state to help determine who is eligible to vote and calls on the Postal Service not to distribute mail ballots to those not on state lists.

Did Anthony Fauci manipulate the intelligence community (IC) investigation of the origin of COVID as outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claims? Gabbard recently released previously unseen documents and communications during the COVID pandemic between the IC and the key member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Anthony Fauci. She claims they show that Fauci and the IC coordinated the investigation of the origin of the COVID to suggest it was a natural occurrence rather than a laboratory leak. She further charges that the documents reveal Fauci’s direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments in an attempt to discourage the lab-leak hypothesis.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna’s proposed gas export ban will backfire, people familiar with natural gas policy warn. “As the Trump administration continues to betray Americans and extend the war with Iran, Congress needs to step in and put the interests of our hard-working constituents first,” Khanna stated in a press release last April. The Gasoline Export Ban Act of 2026 would freeze gas exports if the average price of gas in the U.S. is above $3.12 per gallon for 7 days, and lift the ban if it’s below that mark for 7 days.

The Trump administration will soon request $80 billion funding for the Iran war, Politico reported, citing "five people familiar with the matter." Administration officials reportedly told Republicans on Capitol Hill that the request would come this week. The news comes as Trump increasingly pressures the Senate to change its rules to pass key legislation.

CBS News   The Trump administration intends to ask Congress to allow E15, an ethanol-gas blend, to be sold at the pumps year-round, a U.S. official familiar with the matter told CBS News. The 15% ethanol blend is usually only available part of the year under a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency as temperatures rise to […]