Author: Annabella Rosciglione

The IRS said Monday that religious places of worship could endorse political candidates, undoing a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups. The agency lifted the ban in a court filing to settle a lawsuit from two churches in Texas and an association of Christian broadcasters. The IRS and the plaintiffs asked a federal judge…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had little to say about Elon Musk’s latest political venture, except that the former Trump adviser is unpopular. Bessent suggested that Musk’s “America Party” would hold little sway with voters, as Musk was not popular in his role as head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.  “Look, the principles…

A man who was accused of supplying chemicals to make bombs targeting a California fertility clinic died in custody, federal officials said on Tuesday. Daniel Park was arrested earlier this month at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York upon returning to the United States after being deported from Poland. The Federal Bureau of…

The Arizona House passed a “continuation budget” Tuesday night to keep the state government open on its terms rather than push through the governor-supported Senate budget. State House Republicans have refused the $17.6 billion budget that was negotiated with the GOP-controlled state Senate and Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) after not being afforded the opportunity to…

One of the original employees of the Department of Government Efficiency, formerly led by Elon Musk, has left the federal government.  Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old high school graduate who goes by “Big Balls,” left the job and the Trump administration this week. A social media account under his name confirmed that he left. “I’m officially…

As New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is all but certain to be the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City, Republicans have begun their attacks. In November, he will face incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent, Republican Curtis Sliwa, and possibly former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whom Mamdani just beat in…

TRUMP CAPS DRAMATIC 24 HOURS IN ISRAEL-IRAN WAR WITH NATO SUMMIT LEADERS President Donald Trump is holding a press conference at the NATO summit in the Netherlands at 9 a.m. EST. Trump traveled to the summit on Tuesday, the morning after announcing a ceasefire between Iran and Israel after the United States bombed three Iranian…

Iran‘s foreign minister said there is “no room” for negotiations with the United States so long as Israeli strikes continue. Ahead of talks with European officials in Geneva on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said negotiations with the U.S. would not begin until Israel stopped its strikes.  “Let me make the position clear. Under…

In a statement, Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette provided new details of the moments they were shot last weekend by a man charged with attempting to murder them and assassinating state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. The Hoffmans are continuing their recovery in the hospital and noted that John…

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Thursday from requiring 20 mostly Democratic states to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation funding. Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a preliminary injunction that barred the administration from enforcing the new immigration rules for “the States and…