The administration will ask the Supreme Court to revive President Trump's policy excluding openly transgender troops from serving in the military, a Justice Department lawyer said Tuesday.
The federal government demanded a California moving company pay $15 million for not employing enough workers over the age of 40 following an investigation that began during the Obama administration and now threatens to destroy the family-owned business.
President Trump is no stranger to threats on his life and has survived two assassination attempts, but now the death threats and violence have expanded to targeting his Cabinet officials and other members of the administration.
Who shows up at a morning Mass on Easter Monday? It is a tiny portion of regular Mass-going Catholics who go to any given daily Mass. This day, in particular, offers more reasons not to attend: Many Catholics have just spent about eight hours in church over the past few days — Tenebrae, Holy Thursday […]
Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation Rosatom and Chinese shipping company Hainan Yangpu NewNew Shipping announced in 2024 that they would cooperate on operating an all-year-round container shipping route through the Arctic. Since then, shipping interruptions at flashpoints from the Panama Canal to the Red Sea have thrown the global economy into turmoil. Worse, increasing military and technological collaboration […]
History has a way of repeating itself. In 1971, the predominantly minority inmates of Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York staged a prison rebellion, demanding basic human rights, fair treatment, and dignity after increasing levels of violence and mistreatment by prison officials. That same year, Connecticut high schooler Susan Hollander sued Hamden High School for […]
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is again under fire for sharing sensitive intelligence about impending military operations in Yemen on the messaging app Signal. This chat, which included the flight schedules for the F-18 Hornet fighter jets involved in the mission, was created on Hegseth’s personal phone under the name “Defense | Team Huddle” and […]
Harvard University’s lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars of federal funding encapsulates a tendency among those who receive grants and other taxpayer largesse to treat these subventions not as privileges but as entitlements. There is an old insightful maxim that he who pays the piper calls the tune. It should […]
If you haven’t been making payments on your federal student loans, you could soon find yourself sent to collections with your wages garnished following the return of a Department of Education program.
A divide is developing among Democrats over the handling of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case, with some openly questioning whether leaning into the explosive issue is a winning strategy as Republicans go on offense. Four House progressives arrived in El Salvador on Monday to push for Garcia’s return to the U.S., following Sen. Chris Van Hollen...
A Republican senator on Tuesday indicated disagreement with at least some of the firings and closures being made by the Trump administration in the name of efficiency. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) pushed back on decisions that cut an office and workers...
U.S. stock markets closed with solid gains Tuesday as traders bought into the idea that President Trump's trade war with China could cool down. Markets were up in the morning, but momentum really picked up Tuesday afternoon after several media outlets revealed comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who told a private meeting of investors...
President Trump said Tuesday he has no intention of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, after he has escalated his criticism over the independent agency’s decision to not lower interest rates. “The press runs away with things. No, I have no intention of firing him. I would like to see him be a little more...
