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Officials in President Donald Trump's administration are under fire for failing to adhere to generally accepted safety standards for sensitive information. The Washington Post broke the story on Tuesday that aides of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz have been using commercial email to share information that could pose a risk to the U.S. if revealed to adversaries.The Post revealed members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council — particularly White House national security adviser Michael Waltz — conduct

The first special elections for the U.S. House of Representatives of 2025 are underway in Florida. And even though the congressional districts up for grabs are regarded as Republican strongholds, the GOP is nervous about holding onto them.President Donald Trump has dedicated time to promoting Republican candidates for Florida's 1st and 6th Congressional Districts on his Truth Social account, letting Florida voters know about Tuesday's special election to fill the seats vacated by former Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) The former was appointed to head the Department of Justice (though he removed himself from consideration after roughly a week) and the latter now serves as Trump's national security advisor.But

Once again, my state's GOP hierarchy is leading the nation in creative ways to increase corporate power over people's rights. This time, lawmakers are rushing to protect corrupt executives from legal challenges by their own shareholders! Their law would ban rank-and-file owners of corporate giants from suing their CEOs and other top officials for financial malfeasance. In particular, it's a heavy-handed attempt to prohibit shareholders from suing bosses who lavish shareholder funds on extravagant pay and luxury perks for themselves. But leave it to Lone Star Republicans to make a bad law worse. Indeed, they say they only want to bar suits by "pesky" small investors -- people who own less than 3% of a corporation's stock. But that's a flimflam, since almost no one owns more than 3% of any big corporation. An

Speaker Mike Johnson is facing bipartisan criticism—and public ridicule—after abruptly shutting down the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon for the rest of the week. The move came after a Republican proposal with bipartisan support, which would allow members with newborns to vote remotely, disrupted his legislative agenda. Johnson, who often portrays himself as a devoted family man, opposed a rule change to accommodate new parents.Democrats voted for the rule change unanimously, and nine Republicans joined them. Johnson effectively poisoned the rules package to block remote voting, or proxy voting, and sent members home.“House is now paralyzed,”

Doctors are reeling at mass firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this morning, even as the nation prepares for its worst measles outbreak in recent history.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the Trump administration began sending out termination notices through emails at dawn, hitting whole branches of the agency, targeting doctors and scientists among other employees. WIRED reports the effects rippled across the CDC as workers in the

As the Trump administration’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., presses forward with a mass firing in a sweeping effort to downsize the agency tasked with safeguarding the nation’s well-being—including removing top leaders from key programs, including from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a Republican Senator who cast the pivotal vote that enabled the controversial anti-vaccine activist to take the helm of the massive public health agency is facing s

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, like trade adviser Peter Navarro, is vocal cheerleader for President Donald Trump's tariff proposals. And Lutnick has a strong rapport with the president.But according to Politico's Dasha Burns, Lutnick is by no means universally loved within the Trump administration. And some White House insiders believe that Lutnick may become the fall guy on tariffs.In an article published on

House Republicans on Tuesday tried and failed to block a bipartisan initiative by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), which aimed to allow new mothers in Congress to vote by proxy. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the House Rules Committee set the stage for deliberating a bill known as the SAVE ACT

Reacting to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s announcement she has instructed prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thomspon last year, CNN correspondent Kara Scannel said the big question is if the jury will deliver a verdict of death, as the death penalty is “rare” in the United States. The reporter suggested the jury may rebuff the attorney general’s move. Scannel noted that there was a case in New York, in the same courthouse, where a man who was accused of running down a pedestrian in a U-haul truck was convicted. “That case went

While Democratic lawmakers have been outspoken in their opposition to the steep new tariffs President Donald Trump is pushing, many of their GOP counterparts are reluctant to openly criticize Trump — even if they are privately worried about the effect tariffs could have.According to the Associated Press (AP), Senate Democrats may put Senate Republicans in a difficult position by forcing an "uncomfortable vote" to "nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the levies on Canada."Trump is pushing a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods imported into the U.S., and Canadian officials are responding with a 25 percent tariff on U.S. imports into Canada.READ MORE: