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Senator Cory Booker gave a marathon all-night speech on the Senate floor that stretched into early Tuesday, in an effort to put a spotlight on what he called the Trump administration’s “recklessness.” Mr. Booker, the New Jersey Democrat, began speaking on Monday evening and said he planned to continue for as long as he was…
Harvard was also the place where Schumer first saw left-wing antisemitism in action — using the cloak of anti-Zionism, as it often does today. At a 1970 campus speech by the Israeli foreign minister, Abba Eban, students in the gallery unfurled a banner that read, Fight Zionist Imperialism. Schumer’s book recalls Eban’s reply: “I am…
The Senate is voting to advance a Republican-written stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown at midnight, with enough Democrats joining Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, in voting with Republicans to push it past any filibuster by his own party. Republicans needed eight Democrats to join them in voting to…
The Republican-led Congress isn’t just watching the Trump administration gobble up its constitutional powers. It is enthusiastically turning them over to the White House. G.O.P. lawmakers are doing so this week by embracing a stopgap spending bill that gives the administration wide discretion over how federal dollars are distributed, in effect handing off the legislative…
Pete Buttigieg, the former transportation secretary, is expected to announce that he will not run for Michigan’s open Senate seat, according to four people briefed on his deliberations, a decision that opens the door to a 2028 presidential bid. Mr. Buttigieg’s decision to skip the 2026 race to succeed Senator Gary Peters, a retiring Democrat,…
By Catherine Morrison The Canadian Press Posted March 7, 2025 6:39 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size With just days to go until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves federal politics, his office says five new appointments have now filled all the vacancies in the 105-seat Senate. The Prime Minister’s…
Democrats on Monday blocked a Republican-written bill aimed at barring transgender women and girls from school sports teams designated for female students, thwarting consideration in the Senate of the G.O.P.’s latest move to use transgender people as leverage at the dawn of President Trump’s second term. With Democrats opposed, the measure stalled on a party-line…
In 2018, Democrats won back the House, flipping 41 seats including in conservative-leaning places like the suburbs of Utah and Oklahoma by focusing narrowly on a single issue: Republican efforts to overturn a popular health care program, the Affordable Care Act. Now, as Republicans push a budget resolution through Congress that will almost certainly require…
The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, told bureau officials on Friday that he wanted to send 1,000 agents from the Washington area to field offices across the country, with another 500 support staff members reassigned to the bureau’s sprawling campus in Alabama, people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Patel, newly sworn in as director after…
The Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed Kash Patel as the next director of the F.B.I., installing a hard-line critic of the bureau whose unwavering loyalty to President Trump has raised questions over the independence of the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. The 51-to-49 vote, with two Republican defections, means that Mr. Patel will now…
