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Secretary of State Antony Blinken was repeatedly interrupted at a Senate hearing today by about a dozen protesters opposed to Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The House narrowly passed a bill to fund the government for six months through the end of the fiscal year.

Jack Dunn During tonight’s live broadcast of “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert recapped President Donald Trump‘s joint address to Congress and criticized many of the talking points made during the almost two-hour speech. Before Colbert took the stage, an “Animaniacs” theme song parody called “The Maga Maniacs” played for the audience. Featuring cartoon versions of Trump, Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the song went like this: “It’s time for Maga Maniacs / Federal workers get the ax / DEI rollbacks / Putin can relax / We’re Maga Maniacs.” After the song finished, Colbert appeared and quickly dove into Trump’s address, first poking fun at the speech’s theme.

President Donald Trump‘s speech to Congress started off with some protesting.

(Updated with more details) Democrats may have been hushed in their response so far to Donald Trump’s second administration, but for a brief turn tonight at least one Democrat was not so silent as the 47th President addressed a joint session of Congress.

Jack Dunn Al Green, a U.S. representative from Texas’ 9th congressional district, was removed from President Trump’s Tuesday night joint session of Congress after repeatedly interrupting the president’s speech.

No matter if it is the reigning champs Kansas City Chiefs or 2018 winners the Philadelphia Eagles who triumph today at Super Bowl LIX, Donald Trump has already scored a political touchdown.

banned from using the women’s bathroom and other sex-specific facilities in the Capitol complex.According to an anonymous Republican member of Congress who spoke to the Daily Beast, Boebert was allegedly overheard telling other members on the House floor that she found McBride inside the ladies’ room.The GOP member claimed that Boebert told other members of Congress that she had confronted McBride, allegedly telling her, “You shouldn’t be here.”It turned out that Boebert never confronted McBride, because McBride never entered the women’s bathroom.Instead, the hullabaloo about the person in the women’s bathroom appears to have been a case of mistaken identity.Billy House, a reporter for Bloomberg, reported on X that, on January 23, he witnessed Boebert “bursting out of the House Women’s restroom…complaining to security personnel stationed in the nearby Speaker’s Lobby of ‘a guy’ inside the bathroom.“Intrigued, I stuck around to see who would emerge from the bathroom…and saw just 4 other people leave, all women. Within minutes, however, Boebert was storming back from the House floor into the restroom, — reinforced by Rep.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters that there “should probably be conditions” placed on additional federal aid to address the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires.

institute transgender restroom bans on U.S. Capitol grounds and federal properties nationwide.Since McBride’s election, Mace has pushed her fellow Republicans to impose a ban restricting access to women’s spaces to people who were assigned female at birth.She had sought to introduce a resolution banning transgender women from female-designated spaces as part of the rules package for the new Congress.

rules package, 12 bills that Republican lawmakers have long prioritized — primarily having to do with immigration, anti-abortion measures, and fracking — are to be voted upon “as read.”Among those is a measure to “amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with Title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”The description of the measure appears to be a reference to a bill re-introduced by U.S. Rep.

Four years after attempting to overturn the results of the election, leading to a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump was certified as the winner of the 2024 presidential contest.

Vice President Kamala Harris today will have the task of announcing the certification of the winner of the presidential election, Donald Trump.

The first major drama of the new Congress took place as the House of Representatives sought to elect a new speaker, with Mike Johnson managing to secure a majority after finally winning over two holdouts.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) received a key endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump in his effort to remain as leader of the lower chamber.

CNN and MSNBC have introduced countdown clocks as the U.S. government heads for a shutdown at midnight tonight, as congressional Republicans try to come up with a funding plan that will pass muster with its members following Elon Musk and Donald Trump‘s moves to scuttle a previous bipartisan agreement.

As Donald Trump targets news outlets for new lawsuits, his choices to lead key regulatory agencies have a media watchdog in their sights.

said Democrats didn’t “whip” the NDAA vote or advise their caucus members to adopt a specific position, instead allowing individual members to vote their conscience.Jeffries claimed there were “a lot of positive things” within the NDAA that had bipartisan support but also acknowledged the bill contained some “troubling” positions.House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) hailed the bill’s various provisions, including a pay raise for junior service members and improved housing for military families. He also fully endorsed more controversial provisions, including the ban on gender-affirming care for minor dependents and a prohibition on the teaching of “critical race theory” at military academies.The bill now heads to the U.S.

Chelsea Manning and Raquel Willis, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement, displayed a pink banner with the words “Flush Bathroom Bigotry” in front of the stalls of the women’s bathroom.The group later moved to Johnson’s Capitol office, where they sat on the floor in protest, while a group of male and nonbinary allies unfurled a yellow banner.”Congress: Stop pissing on our rights!” the banner read.The protesters chanted, “Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace, our genders are no debate!” referring to the fact that Johnson imposed a new rule in response to a resolution from Mace that sought to ban transgender women — specifically, U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) — from female-designated spaces within the U.S.

newly announced policy banning transgender individuals from using restrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity.On Wednesday, November 20, Johnson decreed that all single-sex facilities in the U.S. Capitol complex will be reserved for individuals of that biological sex.

, her Republican colleagues are already using her presence to roll out a decidedly anti-trans agenda.Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina recently introduced a bill that would ban transgender people from single-sex spaces (bathrooms and locker rooms) that do not correspond with their “biological sex” on federal property, quickly earning the support of a fellow Republican, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. “I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces,” Mace said of her bill, .

There was a lot of love in Madison Square Garden tonight between Donald Trump and Joe Rogan.