In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far
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In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Oklahoma’s conservative Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, and its conservative Republican schools superintendent have appeared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the years of Donald J. Trump, with the former sending Oklahoma guardsmen to the southern border and the latter stocking the state’s schools with Trump-branded…

Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts
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Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, learned that his district might lose a Social Security Administration field office and the National Weather Center’s primary storm prediction hub the same way many other Americans did: through a public webpage the Department of Government Efficiency…

Opinion | Trump Won’t Win a War Against the Courts
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Opinion | Trump Won’t Win a War Against the Courts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump has wasted no time in his second term in declaring war on the nation’s federal judiciary, the country’s legal profession and the rule of law. He has provoked a constitutional crisis with his stunning frontal assault on the third branch of…

Musk Offers 0 to Wisconsin Voters, Bringing Back a Controversial Tactic
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Musk Offers $100 to Wisconsin Voters, Bringing Back a Controversial Tactic

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk is bringing back his most controversial gambit from the 2024 presidential election: paying voters as part of a plan to identify and turn out conservative-leaning ones. The super PAC that Mr. Musk founded to funnel his fortune into Republican causes, America…

Senate Advances Bill to Avert Government Shutdown
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Senate Advances Bill to Avert Government Shutdown

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Senate on Friday cleared a critical hurdle to avert a government shutdown at midnight, after Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, and nine other members of his caucus joined Republicans in voting to advance a stopgap spending bill, effectively…

Opinion | Why Is Gavin Newsom Seeking Common Ground With the Right?
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Opinion | Why Is Gavin Newsom Seeking Common Ground With the Right?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I was open to the idea behind Gavin Newsom’s new podcast, in which the California governor has been breaking out of his political bubble to talk at length with right-wing media stars such as Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon. Democrats need to get…

Opinion | Chuck Schumer: Why Democrats Must Not Allow the Government to Shut Down
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Opinion | Chuck Schumer: Why Democrats Must Not Allow the Government to Shut Down

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Over the past two months, the United States has confronted a bitter truth: The federal government has been taken over by a nihilist. President Trump has taken a blowtorch to our country and wielded chaos like a weapon. Most Republicans in Congress, meanwhile,…

Republican Refers to Sarah McBride, Transgender Congress Member, as a Man
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Republican Refers to Sarah McBride, Transgender Congress Member, as a Man

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A Republican lawmaker abruptly adjourned a congressional hearing on Tuesday after being challenged for referring to Representative Sarah McBride, Democrat of Delaware and the first openly transgender lawmaker in Congress, as a man. The Europe Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs panel was…