President Trump said that a facility in Venezuela was "knocked out" by the U.S. military as the U.S. continues its war on drugs and puts pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick reiterated her innocence Monday outside a Miami federal courthouse, where she faces charges of conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds.
A federal judge has dismissed a criminal case against a popular Los Angeles TikTok streamer, citing constitutional violations after his lawyers were denied access to him while he was in immigration detention.
California is trying to shame rich people into bailing out the state’s failing budget, and the result will be a worse California where everyday workers are forced to pay even more than they pay now. California is workshopping a “one-time” 5% wealth tax on people with a net worth over $1 billion, which is about 200 people […]
Together we made it to the end of another year, which, in Trump administration time, has felt more like an eternity — with a few extra hours to boot. Before we submit ourselves to three more years in the politics-obsessed reality television show that is modern-day America, let’s look back at the winners and losers of […]
I have a secret habit: I read advice columns the way other people read sports scores. If I’m being honest, they make me feel good about having a nice, boring life with a loving family and no real personal drama. The problems are different, the stakes feel personal, and the rhythms are familiar: betrayal, resentment, […]
When I was 13 years old, I walked into the girls locker room at my Maine school to change for gym class like I did every day, except this day was different. A male student stood there. Like most seventh graders, I did not know how to react. I was shocked. But two things were […]
Washington talks a lot about empathy. So do the states. The word gets tossed around until it starts to mean “feeling something,” or worse, performing something, without doing the hard work of changing outcomes. Americans already sense there’s a difference between coddling and dignifying. One approach expands dependency or enabling and calls it compassion. The […]
Today is the fifth day of the 12 days of Christmas. Some may recognize this day from the famous song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” as the day of “five golden rings.” Others may recognize it as the feast day of St. Thomas of Canterbury, the archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his assassination in […]
Small Business Administration (SBA) head Kelly Loeffler said Monday that her department is halting annual grants to Minnesota, amid an investigation into alleged fraud in COVID-era lending programs. Loeffler said on the social platform X that the SBA is pausing yearly funding to Minnesota “while we investigate $430 million in suspected [Paycheck Protection Program] fraud...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) claimed in a New York Times profile that President Trump said his “friends will get hurt” by exposing abusers connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. According to the story told by Greene, she received a call from Trump after she said at a news conference that she would expose...
Democrats plan to hold a fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot by reconvening the House select committee that investigated the matter. In a “Dear Colleague” letter, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) asked members of the House if they would like to provide testimony at a hearing that is otherwise slated to...
President Trump told reporters he was considering bringing a lawsuit against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for "gross incompetence" as he complained about renovations to the central bank's headquarters. "We're thinking about bringing a suit against Powell for incompetence. Because think of it, these aren't outstanding buildings. These are small buildings," Trump said during a...
