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A House Agriculture Committee hearing erupted Thursday into a sharp clash between Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), with Rollins sniping that Congress's behavior explains why "the American people don't like Congress" as Brown repeatedly cut off Rollins's attempts to dodge yes-or-no questions.

Brown, the committee's vice-ranking member, came loaded with grim numbers. She pressed Rollins on whether she was aware that farm bankruptcies jumped 46 percent in 2025, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation — the second consecutive year of increases. Rollins began to deflect, noting the total number of farms, and Brown cut her off.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was repeatedly ordered to stop talking and struggled to answer basic questions about the farm economy Thursday during a tense House Agriculture Committee hearing that devolved into a shouting match.

Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), the committee's ranking member, came loaded with data — and used every second of her question time to expose what she called the administration's ignorance of its own record.

Despite former White House chief of staff Karl Rove’s prediction on Fox News on Thursday morning that the Democratic “blue wave” in November may not be as damaging to the Republican Party as has been predicted, the Republican commentator was the target of the president’s ire on Truth Social.

Toward the end of his Fox News segment, Rove off-handedly mentioned, “And remember, this is a contest between two unfavorables. The president’s unfavorability is at 40 percent. The Democratic Party’s unfavorability is below 37. So who’s more- who’s less popular and how’s that going to affect the outcome?”

President Donald Trump just reclassified thousands of government workers with the stroke of a pen that would allow him to fully politicize the federal workforce, and one of his former aides highlighted a "revealing detail" that underlines his intentions.

The 79-year-old president signed an executive order on Wednesday to convert about 8,000 senior career officials into employees whom the chief executive can fire for any reason, and former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor wrote on his Defiance website about the significance of that move.

Billionaire tech CEOs and investors hoping to “buy” seats in Congress with nominees sympathetic to their demands are finding it easier to find candidates than it is to get them elected, no matter how many millions of dollars they invest in their campaigns.

According to a report from Politico’s Christine Mui, Dustin Gardiner, Madison Fernandez and Kimberly Leonard, Tuesday’s primaries were not kind to potential lawmakers who made no bones about their enthusiasm for tech initiatives that included the increasingly unpopular data centers.

John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser-turned-chief critic, has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, CNN reported Thursday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

Bolton has also agreed to pay a fine of more than $2 million, according to one of the sources. A conviction on a single count of illegal retention carries a sentence of zero to 60 months in prison. A hearing is scheduled for June 26, according to the court docket.

The Trump administration is opening up an "irreparable blind spot" in the nation's ability to predict natural disasters, according to experts.

The National Science Foundation announced plans to dismantle a $368 million deep-sea observation system just days after President Donald Trump fired all members of an independent board that oversees the foundation, and CNN's Bill Weir explained what that vast undersea network monitors and what will be lost.

Brian Kilmeade surprised his Fox & Friends co-hosts Thursday by breaking with the conservative line on Confederate monuments — declaring that Robert E. Lee shouldn't have a statue because he "made a choice, and it was the wrong choice."

The moment came after co-host Carley Shimkus noted that a Lee monument removed from a Charleston, South Carolina, school campus in 2021 had been put back on public display, and that Italian American groups had filed a federal lawsuit seeking to restore a Christopher Columbus statue removed from Columbus, Ohio's city hall in 2020.