Oct 31, 2025
                        
                    
                     
                    
                        
                            The White House will reopen its doors for public tours beginning Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, the White House announced Friday.
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        Oct 31, 2025
                        
                    
                     
                    
                        
                            As American children prepared to don costumes and hit the streets for Halloween trick-or-treating, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were busy taking real-life monsters off those same streets.
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        Oct 31, 2025
                        
                    
                     
                    
                        
                            President Donald Trump reaffirmed on Friday that the U.S. would resume nuclear testing, and he did not answer directly when asked whether that would include the traditional underground nuclear tests that were common during the Cold War.
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        Oct 31, 2025
                        
                    
                     
                    
                        
                            Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday escalated his criticism of Democratic leadership, calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., to break ranks and vote for a funding bill that would end the monthlong government shutdown.
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        Oct 31, 2025
                        
                    
                     
                    
                        
                            House Speaker Mike Johnson cautioned on Friday that eliminating the Senate filibuster rule to bypass the chamber's 60-vote threshold to reopen the government could unleash unintended and severe consequences. He told reporters that the filibuster has long served as a "very...
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        Oct 31, 2025
                        
                    
                     
                    
                        
                            Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Monday formally pressed Google and its chief executive, Sundar Pichai, for detailed explanations after the company's large language model (LLM) system, known as Gemma, generated fabricated criminal allegations that linked her name to rape...
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        Oct 31, 2025
                        
                    
                     
                    
                        
                            President Donald Trump on Friday said he is not considering strikes within Venezuela. When asked if he was weighing such action, Trump responded, "no."...
                        
                        
                     
                    
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        Oct 31, 2025
                        
                    
                     
                    
                        
                            National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Friday declined to take a firm position on whether Republican senators should follow President Donald Trump's suggestion to eliminate the filibuster, CNN reported on Friday.