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Former President Joe Biden on Friday accused President Donald Trump of attempting to "erase the truth" and squandering the United States’ role as the leader of the world."It's not just my record Trump's trying to erase," Biden told South Carolina Democrats, while talking about the president's efforts to get rid of the Affordable Care Act."He's trying to erase fairness, equity, history, the truth," he continued, citing incidents in which information […]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accused Everett, Washington, Mayor Cassie Franklin of escalating tensions with federal authorities after she issued a directive limiting immigration enforcement in the city.Franklin issued a mayoral directive this week establishing citywide protocols for staff, including law enforcement, that restrict federal immigration agents from entering non-public areas of city buildings without a judicial warrant."We’ve heard directly from residents who are afraid to leave their houses […]

President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of putting Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on the Supreme Court, joking he is the only nominee who would receive "100% of the Democrat vote, 100% of the Republican vote" because lawmakers would want to "get him out" of Congress.Trump made the comments after Cruz and other lawmakers traveled with the president to make remarks on energy in Corpus Christi, Texas."We have a […]

A Democratic Washington state lawmaker has apologized after admitting he showed up to a committee hearing after drinking alcohol and making somewhat slurred remarks during the proceeding.  Democratic state Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, the state House majority leader, said it was a "serious mistake for many reasons" when he appeared at a House Appropriations Committee meeting Wednesday where he discussed the operating budget. "I made a poor choice last night by drinking […]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday said he was ordering the "complete and immediate cancellation" of all Department of War attendants at universities like Princeton, Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brown and Yale, starting with the 2026-27 academic year.Hegseth added that the ban would also include "many others," claiming the higher education system has been "poisoned from within from a class of so-called elite universities who’ve abused […]