Environmental groups appear to be breaking with the Democratic Party after protesters disrupted a recent leadership meeting, which comes as the party attempts to regain its footing after suffering defeat in the 2024 presidential election. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) held a candidate forum on Thursday evening in Washington, D.C., ahead of their upcoming election to determine who will lead the campaign arm into the next election cycle. ...

Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke has accused President Donald Trump of trying to “purge” non-White workers from the federal government. “Our republic’s president, Donald Trump, chose to address a nation in mourning with only fiction and White supremacist ideologies,” Clarke said during a Friday press conference in Brooklyn, New York. “Yesterday, he spun that fiction for one reason and one reason alone, and that is to further his...

The top Republican on the Senate health committee, Sen. Bill Cassidy, faced criticism from fellow Republicans after he suggested his vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary is not a lock.  Cassidy, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said during closing remarks at Kennedy’s second confirmation hearing of the week that he was “struggling” to confirm the...