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California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would establish state-mandated drinking water standards for toxic “forever chemicals,” amid fears that existing federal limits could be scrapped by the Trump administration. The AB 794 bill would direct the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt emergency regulations that would set limits at least as protective as the…

Congressional job approval among Americans shot up in the weeks since President Trump took office to the highest marks in nearly four years, according to a February Gallup survey, a change driven largely by Republican respondents. The Feb. 16 survey found that 29 percent of Americans approved of the job Congress is doing, while 65 percent…

President Trump has intensified his criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing him of taking advantage of the United States and questioning his ability to lead war-torn Ukraine.

It is a bitter irony that the Speaker of the House — the leader of the legislative branch — would surrender the power of the purse.

Confidence in air safety and federal government agencies that help sustain it has dropped in 2025 after the deadly Reagan National Airport crash near Washington that killed 67 people, according to a new survey that was released on Wednesday.  The new Associated Press (AP)-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 64 percent of…

Kansas’s GOP legislature voted Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, becoming the 27th state to restrict access to treatment.  Republicans, with supermajorities in both chambers, easily cleared the two-thirds majority threshold needed to override Kelly’s veto in a set of votes that caught…

President Trump’s approval rating has slipped slightly from when he took office in January among economic concerns, including over him moving to impose tariffs on the U.S.’s main trading partners and floating others, according to a new survey that was released on Wednesday.  The new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that Trump’s approval rating was at 44…

The chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, slammed his predecessors at the department after criticisms they sent at him over his probing of major broadcast outlets he has said are unfair to President Trump. When contacted by media reporter Oliver Darcy with statements from three former FCC officials, each who had blasted his department’s probes…

A federal judge temporarily barred two intelligence agencies from terminating employees who had been assigned to work on diversity efforts. The order blocks the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA from firing 11 anonymous employees working in diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) related roles as litigation continues. The suit describes the…