Cornyn presses FBI to help Texas bring back Democrats who left state
Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) is pressing the FBI to intervene to help the GOP bring back the state House Democrats after they left on Sunday to stop Republicans from adva...
Pentagon keeps a lid on Golden Dome
A sprawling missile defense conference kicks off Tuesday in Alabama, but no one on stage can mention the Pentagon’s most ambitious missile defense project.Defense Secre...
Trump administration to reinstall Confederate statue toppled in Black Lives Matter protests
A statue of a general in the Confederate army that was toppled and set on fire during social justice protests in 2020 in Washington DC will be reinstated, the National...
The FDA is targeting orange juice. Here’s why, and what the science says.
Orange juice, known for its tangy, sweet taste, could be made with slightly less sugary oranges under a regulation proposed Tuesday by the Trump administration.While th...
Opinion | Trump started a redistricting war. Only Congress can stop it.
A sudden war over redistricting has broken out in Texas and looks to spread across the country, with California, New York and elsewhere considering tit-for-tat Democrat...
‘Can’t have it both ways’: ‘The Weeknight’ co-hosts question Dems’ strategy to resist Trump
On Monday evening, Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin called President Donald Trump an “existential threat to democracy” during a town hall event in Michigan. Slotkin’s rem...
The BLS does have a jobs data problem, but it's not what Trump says
Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a disappointing jobs report he said was "RIGGED."While BLS faces data collection problems, monthly revision...
House GOP subpoenas DOJ, Clintons in Epstein probe
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a number of high-profile former govern...
Maddow Blog | Rachel Maddow: As Big Law cowers, small firms are stepping up to take on Trump
This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 4 episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show."As Donald Trump continues to push around the nation’s universities — suspending their fed...
Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for George Santos' 7-year sentence to be commuted
It might be hard to find someone to have your back in politics if you get caught lying about your life story, become one of a handful of people ever expelled from Congr...