The country is in a tizzy after President Trump tweeted that his nuclear button is "bigger" and "more powerful" than that of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Kelly Macias, Staff Writer at The Daily Kos joins Cheddar to discuss why she believes Trump's tweets are creating danger for America.
On top of Trump's Twitter war, rumors are swirling that former presidential candidate Mitt Romney will run for senator of Utah after Orrin Hatch announced his retirement on Tuesday. Romney has been a vocal opponent of the current administration and the president.
Plus, Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi will meet with White House Officials on Wednesday in hopes to strike a deal on government spending. She believes the Democrats have some leverage, but agreement on DACA remains up in the air. Trump has said the Democrats are "doing nothing for DACA" and she believes that while this may be delusional for him to say, there is some merit to the statement.
Federal health advisers voted overwhelmingly against an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease at a Wednesday meeting prompted by years of patient efforts seeking access to the unproven therapy.
Lawmakers probing the cause of last month’s deadly Maui wildfire did not get many answers during Thursday's congressional hearing on the role the electrical grid played in the disaster.
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that federal disaster assistance is available for Louisiana, which is working to slow a mass inflow of salt water creeping up the Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in the southern part of the state.
A new law in California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour next year, an acknowledgment from the state's Democratic leaders that most of the often overlooked workforce are the primary earners for their low-income households.
From Sunday, workers at the main United States base in Antarctica will no longer be able to walk into a bar and order a beer, after the U.S. federal agency that oversees the research program decided to stop serving alcohol.
House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to “provide accountability” as they probe the family finances and business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate.
The FBI and other government agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program, a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended on Thursday.
