A Wisconsin appellate court denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, just two days before a closely contested Supreme Court election.

The Navy has a new civilian leader with a hefty business resume but no military experience after the Senate voted Monday evening to approve John Phelan as the service's secretary.

The Senate voted 62-30 to confirm Phelan as Navy secretary, making him the civilian head of both the Navy and Marine Corps and putting him in charge of the health and well-being of more than 1 million sailors, Marines, reservists and civilian personnel and an annual budget of more than $250 billion.

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee started his Senate confirmation journey to become the next ambassador to Israel on Tuesday.

The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations asked Huckabee questions concerning conflicts in the region, like the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, as well as ending the conflict and returning hostages home.

He said it’s the first item of business.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he returned nearly $500 million to the U.S. Treasury because the money had "too many strings attached."

The two-term Republican governor mentioned he'd recently met with Elon Musk and the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency about $330 million that was allocated for Florida projects. He also said the grant would have required the state to check tailpipe emissions, something that DeSantis said he would never do.

Mehmet Oz is a step closer to being confirmed as the next head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, after the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday advanced his nomination.

The vote was 14-13 along party lines.

Democrats slammed Oz for not committing to stop potential GOP cuts to Medicaid, as well as his previous support for Medicare Advantage plans and privatizing Medicare. 

President Donald Trump is standing by Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk in spite of criticism from Democrats from Illinois and around the country.

Union leaders led rallies on Sunday to protest potential changes to the U.S. Postal Service. Trump has suggested a move to privatize the agency or merge it into the Department of Commerce.

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, posted a video on X from a downtown Chicago rally on Sunday. Durbin said he opposed Musk and others who want to privatize USPS.

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday at her home in Utah at the age of 49.

Love's family announced her death Sunday night on social media, saying she was "in her home surrounded by family" when she died.

"With grateful hearts filled to overflowing for the profound influence of Mia on our lives, we want you to know that she passed away peacefully today," Love's family said in a statement, shared on both X and Facebook.

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, who served from 2015 to 2019, died on Sunday at her home in Utah. She was 49.

Her family confirmed the death in a post on one of Ms. Love’s social media pages. She had been diagnosed in 2022 with a glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain tumor.

Ayear and half ago, a small group of House Republican hard-liners ousted a speaker for the first time in history. His hanging offense: passing a “continuing resolution,” or CR, to fund the government for six weeks.

Fast-forward to Tuesday: Not only did many of those same hard-liners back a GOP speaker’s CR — this one for six months, not weeks — but the “hell no” House Freedom Caucus even endorsed the move, with many members voting for a funding extension for the first time.

The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus threw its backing behind a stopgap funding package, bolstering Speaker Mike Johnson’s attempt to pass the bill without the help of House Democrats and avert a government shutdown on March 15.

The vote on the stopgap is set for Tuesday and Johnson can likely only afford to lose two Republicans on the measure if Democrats line up uniformly against it.