Jeff Merkley

Trump wants to put ‘large numbers of drones’ and ‘snipers’ on the structure

That night, any subtlety evaporated when he was photographed on Air Force One with a large poster titled “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.” People who worried about the future of the historic performing arts institution had visions of bulldozers rolling toward its marble facade

Two senators pressed the Trump administration for detailed explanations regarding a proposal to install warning signs outside the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History

Each of the 15 nuclear-powered surface combatants will cost more than $18 billion, putting them in the range of the Navy’s Ford-class supercarriers, to date the most expensive naval vessels ever built

The boom of prediction markets, where people can bet on the outcome of future events, and the prevalence of wildfires are raising concerns about whether betting on natural disasters could drive criminal activity

Senior White House officials were asked to hand over their mobile phones as part of an investigation into leaks about security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted aircraft intended for use as Air Force One, according to CNN

As preconditions to their effectiveness they must accumulate both significant seniority in the body of 100, and the respect of their ever changing 99 colleagues

Senate Republicans plan to take $1 billion fund toward White House ballroom out of spending bill

Stymied by Democrats on funding President Trump’s immigration crackdown in the normal fashion, Senate Republicans are muscling through legislation to provide more than $70 billion by employing the special budget exemption that was never intended to be used that way

Stymied by Democrats on funding President Trump’s immigration crackdown in the normal fashion, Senate Republicans are muscling through legislation to provide more than $70 billion by employing the special budget exemption that was never intended to be used that way

But today’s reconciliation fight is exposing an uncomfortable truth: the clock is ticking, and the GOP still must prove it can convert a clear electoral mandate into governing power

President Donald Trump's push to secure taxpayer-funded security upgrades tied to his proposed White House ballroom hit a roadblock after the Senate parliamentarian ruled that a $1 billion Secret Service provision could not be included in a GOP immigration enforcement bill as drafted

Democrats publicly condemn President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project while quietly taking money from many of the same donor networks surrounding it, exposing the permanent political ecosystem operating beneath America’s manufactured partisan warfare

Beirut is attending despite strong objections from Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah

Despite the missile shield’s price tag — six times more than expected — it could probably be overwhelmed by a ‘peer or near-peer adversary’

Democrats are demanding answers over a report that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth might have attempted to make a large investment in defense stocks through a broker in the lead-up to the Iran war

Swalwell demands FBI's Patel not release old investigative files months before election CNN

Seth Moulton of Massachusetts has implemented a policy to ban staffers from betting on prediction markets on issues pertaining to issues such as politics and any information obtained in an official capacity

Prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi go way beyond sports and politics

President Donald Trump—who has at times leaned into monarchical imagery and drawn scrutiny for what critics have called a “neo-imperialist” policy towards countries like Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba—will soon be the face of a commemorative, 24-karat gold coin, which runs counter to long-standing caution among America’s founding fathers about placing living leaders on official currency

Trump denies Israel forced him into war with Iran

US commerce chief under fire over Epstein ties as resignation calls grow; media see stepping down unlikely, Chinese experts note case exposes dysfunction in US accountability system

The U.S. Treasury Department and United States Mint have circulated draft design proposals for a special $1 coin that would mark the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026, featuring images of President Donald J. Trump