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...

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled a nationwide ban on handgun sales to young adults is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found a federal law that prohibits adults aged 18-20 from buying handguns violates the Second Amendment. The ruling comes as key firearms regulations have been struck down across the country following a landmark Supreme Court decision...