Monday’s embezzlement conviction of Marine Le Pen, leader of the populist National Rally in France, extends the establishment lawfare campaign against the New Right across the Western world. It is a problem not restricted to France but obvious from this side of the Atlantic Ocean, where President Donald Trump had the justice system weaponized against […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has spent the last several years blaming price gouging from oil companies for the high gas prices in his state. Unsurprisingly, it is his own policies that were jacking up prices all along. Michael Mische of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business looked at gas prices over the […]
There has been a predictable progression of unchecked extremism that began on college campuses and has now spilled into our streets and communities as violent protesters have begun setting Cybertrucks and other Tesla vehicles ablaze. Molotov cocktails have been thrown at showrooms, and bullet-riddled Tesla stores from Portland to Las Vegas now bear the signs […]
To hear the Democratic Party and its media allies tell it, the Trump administration is snatching legal United States residents off the streets in the middle of the night and then shipping them to foreign countries at will. The New York Times, for example, claims Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “was in the U.S. legally” before […]
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) on Monday said a “tariff is a tax,” a day before the Trump administration’s imposition of “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs. In Sessions’s appearance on “CNN News Central,” a Monday opinion piece from The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board was brought up by anchor John Berman. “In the real economic world, a...
President Trump on Tuesday announced his administration struck a deal with a law firm with ties to former second gentleman Doug Emhoff and the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as Trump targets major firms for retribution. The agreement with Willkie Farr & Gallagher states that the firm will provide...
Rahm Emanuel, who served in the Biden administration as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, is returning to Wall Street for a new position but said he is “not done with public service.” Emanuel is rejoining the investment bank Centerview Partners, where he worked from 2019 to 2021. He counseled CEOs on mergers, regulation and political...
Presented by National Council on Aging {beacon} IN HIS BROADEST TRADE MOVE YET, President Trump will outline sweeping tariffs during a White House Rose Garden event Wednesday. Trump met with his trade team Tuesday to hammer out the final details for the announcement, which threatens to ignite a risky global trade war that economists warn would...
Trump's tariffs could raise $600 billion a year, but this would only happen if consumers avoid substitution and continue to buy foreign goods at tariff-elevated prices, which is unlikely.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) appeared to confuse Oliver Stone, an American filmmaker and a witness before House lawmakers on Tuesday, with political strategist Roger Stone during a hearing on the release of new documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “You wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of...
A group of former Republican lawmakers and officials is opposing President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act for deportations. The group of conservatives, along with the State Democracy Defenders Fund, filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court to oppose the Trump administration’s use of the 18th-century wartime law. The brief was filed with the high...
OpenAI raised $40 billion from investors in its latest funding round, the ChatGPT maker announced Monday. The deal, which values the artificial intelligence (AI) company at $300 billion, was led by Japanese company SoftBank. It plans to contribute $30 billion, while the remaining $10 billion will come from a syndicate of other investors. “We’re excited...
President Trump tapped former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) to be the Department of Labor’s (DOL) inspector general on Monday evening, months after he lost his House seat to Rep. Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.) in the last election cycle. If D’Esposito, who was a New York City Police Department detective before being elected as a House lawmaker,...
Nine House Republicans defied GOP leadership on Tuesday and opposed an effort to block a bill instituting proxy voting for new parents from coming to the floor, halting key legislative action in the chamber. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) collected the 218 signatures — including from 11 Republicans — needed to successfully execute a discharge...
