The Arizona senator used campaign money to fly his family to Nantucket and the Caribbean. The Justice Department has said it is investigating his campaign finance activity.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reached a handshake agreement with City Council Speaker Julie Menin regarding the $126 billion budget on Tuesday, hours before the city’s next fiscal year starts. The socialist mayor cast the deal as a major step toward solving the city’s budget crisis, with the deficit having been expected to reach […]
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is cutting off federal funding for New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, arguing the office has failed to adequately prosecute Medicaid fraud despite overseeing one of the nation’s largest programs. In a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James, Department of Health and Human Services officials said […]
The House on Monday passed the KIDS Act, but key senators say the legislation has little chance of advancing in its current form.Why it matters: The vote sets up a showdown over kids' online safety as the White House works to align Congress behind legislation that would preempt some state AI laws. Driving the news: After garnering broad bipartisan support, House lawmakers fast-tracked a package of kids' online safety measures, including a version of the Kids Online Safety Act, and sent it to the Senate.The bill passed in a 267-117 vote.The House version of KOSA does not include "duty of care" language — which would require platforms to take reasonable steps to mitigate harms stemming from design features like endless scroll or algorithmic recommendations. Proponents say the provision is key to holding tech companies accountable.What they're saying: "We worked hard to reach a workable compromise," House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) said Monday on the floor. "While no single bill will solve every challenge facing families online, this legislation represents a significant and long-overdue step forward in establishing meaningful safeguards," he said.Zoom in: The House package includes preemption language that critics say would make it more difficult to sue social media companies for design features.If that language were law, it would have prevented landmark social media cases in California, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said during a call with reporters last week."Let me be clear. The Senate is not interested in having these cases preempted," she said."Preemption should not be a part of it, period," said KOSA co-sponsor Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)."The preemption language in the KIDS Act is written with the explicit intent of ensuring that states have the authority to pass and enforce stronger state laws, including those with a duty of care," House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said.The big picture: The Trump administration and the tech industry have pushed Congress to pass legislation that would override some state AI laws. Any serious preemption effort would need to include measures protecting kids online to have a chance of advancing.KOSA co-sponsor Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has been working with the White House on a deal tying kids' online safety measures to federal preemption of some state AI laws and has said any legislation needs to include duty of care language."Certainly we don't need to tie it to bad AI policy," Cantwell said.Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has been working with the House on kids' online safety bills."Nobody on the committee knows what Sen. Cruz is proposing. I don't think a Republican on the committee knows what he's going to propose," Cantwell said.Cruz is expected to hold an AI legislative markup soon.The bottom line: Congress has repeatedly failed to get KOSA signed into law. This time, sponsors worry that White House pressure may result in a weakened bill crossing the finish line."We need to prevent the White House from forming an alliance with big tech on this issue," Blumenthal said.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Tuesday accused the Supreme Court of being an “arm of the oligarchy” after it handed down a ruling allowing political parties more freedom to spend money for their candidates. In a 6-3 decision, the justices ruled it is a violation of the First Amendment to limit the amount of money […]
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is 55, included the TikTok slang phrase “understood the assignment” in her concurring opinion in the Supreme Court’s major birthright citizenship ruling issued Tuesday. The post Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Used Trashy TikTok Slang ‘Understood the Assignment’ in Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Opinion appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Democratic campaigns fumed Tuesday at the Supreme Court for striking down limits on coordinated spending between political parties and candidates, a conservative 6-3 majority ruling that is set to open the donor floodgates for the midterm elections. Democrats fear it will buoy Senate Republicans in particular, who mounted the legal challenge over First Amendment claims […]
President Donald Trump celebrated two Supreme Court rulings on Tuesday that upheld state laws barring biological males from competing in women’s sports and struck down restrictions on coordinated campaign spending between political parties and candidates, calling the decisions major victories. The court issued a 6-3 decision upholding Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act and West […]
A Monday memo from Graham Platner’s campaign shows the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine is battling an onslaught of outside GOP spending. The memo, obtained by Politico, says Republicans spent $4.3 million on the race between Platner and incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) from last Tuesday through Monday. Collins’s campaign spent $500,000, while PACs…