Senate Democrats say they are not eager to shut down the government but believe voting against a Republican stopgap bill is their only way to stand up to President Trump and his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.
They say joining the military is life-changing, and from everything I’ve experienced and heard from others, I believe that to be true. I recently spoke with former Navy Lt. David Pingenot, whom I knew when I was growing up in Iowa, and I was interested to learn that enlisting in the Navy changed his life, […]
Last month I spent nearly $200 getting a stack of old trousers taken in at the waist. I had been keeping them folded up on a top shelf in a closet, in a kind of Carbohydrate Lover’s Strategic Reserve, because I know from past behavior that just because they’re too big for me now, there’s […]
The Ukraine war is like a Russian doll. A series of five increasingly complex geopolitical questions encases a solid core of historical conflict. That core issue is whether Ukraine should be independent of Russia or whether, as often in its history, it falls so far within Russia’s sphere of interest that it becomes a second […]
I have seen my share of action movies, monster movies, and, to my chagrin, horror movies, but seldom have I seen a movie that treated the human body so callously, so coldly, or so cavalierly as Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17. In his first outing behind the camera since 2019’s Oscar-winning sensation Parasite, Bong has made […]
This is a painful column to write. All my life, I have seen the United States as the repository of mankind’s loftiest hopes and ambitions, the nation that would place its flag on Mars as surely as it did on the moon. Even when the U.S. clashed with my British homeland, as when American troops […]
House Democrats are furious at their fellow Democrats in the Senate for supporting a Republican spending bill, saying Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other aisle-hopping senators are set to empower President Trump to gut the government at the expense of their own constituents. “There is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,” Rep. Alexandria...
A majority of voters are unhappy with the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) handling of federal workers, according to a new poll. When asked about “the way Elon Musk and DOGE are dealing with workers employed by the federal government,” 60 percent of respondents in the Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters said they are...
President Trump met with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Thursday at the White House for what the Democratic governor described as a “productive meeting.” “I had a productive meeting at the White House today with President Trump where we discussed bringing good paying jobs to Michigan,” Whitmer told NewsNation. “We also discussed tariffs, the...
NASA and SpaceX rescheduled the launch of their Falcon 9 rocket rescue mission to the International Space Station for Friday. They were unable to launch on Wednesday due to issues with equipment on the ground, and opted to scrub a Thursday launch attempt due to weather. “NASA and SpaceX have scrubbed Wednesday’s launch attempt of...
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) applauded President Trump’s threat to put a 200 percent tariff on wine, Champagne and other alcohol imported from the European Union (EU) if the bloc does not remove a tariff on U.S. whiskey. “I think the president's right over the target. People in Ohio love Donald Trump, and his message is...
Presented by GE Aerospace — {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security PRESENTED BY The Big Story Zero migrants left at Guantánamo after flights back to US The Trump administration’s plans to detain migrants in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is on shaky ground after all 40 such individuals held there were sent back to the United...
Johns Hopkins University said Thursday that it is cutting over 2,000 workers because of a federal funding cut. “The termination of more than $800 million in [U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)] funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,” a spokesperson for the school said in an...
A second judge late Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate probationary workers who were let go in mass firings across multiple agencies to shrink the federal government.
