President Trump on Thursday expanded his Ratepayer Protection Pledge to a sweeping coalition of governors, state legislatures, utilities and data center developers -- demanding that tech giants foot the energy bills for their power-hungry data centers rather than passing those costs onto American families.
ICE is hitting its deportation stride under new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, averaging about 1,250 formal deportations a day over the last three months.
Homeland Security has now issued fines to more than 100,000 illegal immigrants who have refused to leave the country even after being ordered out by an immigration judge.
More than two dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration for requiring them to comply with election and immigration conditions in order to receive billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.
The number of Americans filing for new unemployment claims fell to its lowest level in over half a century. Core consumer price index inflation, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, fell back to its lowest level since March, defying expectations, and the International Monetary Fund has upgraded its expectations of the country’s economic growth for […]
“Let’s go home,” Matt Damon says brusquely, playing an exhausted Odysseus. Damon’s a good actor, and that moment in previews got me pumped for the movie. It’s a punchy, understated framing of the Odyssey: A perilous journey home from a lengthy and disastrous home. But that’s not a scene from Homer’s Odyssey. I’m not saying […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has inherited the socialist lane for Democratic presidential primaries from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and the country should be prepared to face that fact in the 2028 elections. A recently released University of New Hampshire poll put Ocasio-Cortez’s support in the Granite State at 22%, just ahead of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s […]
The Trump administration has backed away from efforts to subpoena a list of Jewish employees at the University of Pennsylvania, one of several schools it has accused of failing to stop antisemitism, according to court documents filed Thursday. The documents, filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, show the Equal Employment...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Thursday he's expecting to add provisions to penalize Iran to a Russia sanctions bill under consideration in the upper chamber. President Trump said on social media over the weekend that he wanted Iran sanctions added to the bipartisan Russia-related legislation. "I think everybody's fine with it because...
A majority of Americans don't approve of President Trump’s renovation efforts in the U.S.’s capital city, according to a new survey. The president has undertaken a series of controversial beautification projects around Washington, D.C., including updating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, replacing the East Wing of the White House with a multimillion-dollar ballroom and constructing...
Houthi strikes on a pair of Saudi oil tankers have created an explosive situation in the Red Sea, threatening to open a new front in the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran and further roil the global energy market. The Yemen-based militant group said Thursday it struck the Encelia and Layla tankers with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles...
The man accused of killing former Minnesota state House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) was sentenced Thursday to two consecutive life terms, plus 40 years in prison. Vance Boelter, 59, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars more than a year after his fatal shooting of Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman....
The entire congressional Democratic caucus filed an amicus brief urging a federal appeals court to retain the Food and Drug Administration’s current rules for prescribing abortion pills. Forty-seven Democratic senators and 212 House members asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit not to reinstate an in-person requirement to obtain mifepristone, which has...
