As with most tax-the-rich plans, Mamdani’s $5 million cutoff couldn't raise enough cash, so he decided that the somewhat prosperous are also failing to chip in their “fair share.
President Trump took aim at the press, Democrats and some of his celebrity critics in a speech that received a lukewarm reception at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s (WHCA) dinner on Friday evening. Trump took the stage just months after a gunman allegedly attempted an attack on his life at the association’s annual event in...
President Trump took aim at the press, Democrats and some of his celebrity critics in a speech that received a lukewarm reception at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s (WHCA) dinner on Friday evening. Trump took the stage just months after a gunman allegedly attempted an attack on his life at the association’s annual event in...
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner Frank Yiannas, who served under both President Trump and former President Biden, criticized the federal government’s handling of a Cyclospora outbreak that has impacted thousands of Americans. In an interview with Politico, Yiannas called for an independent review of the government’s response to this outbreak and cited...
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Grant cancellations 'based solely' on politics: filing Federal green grants canceled last year were selected “solely” based on a state’s political affiliation, the Trump administration said in a recent court filing. Greg Nash In the filing, Department of Energy (DOE) lawyer Jeff Novak said the...
President Trump on Friday issued an executive order directing disclaimers be installed outside the Smithsonian's Museum of American history to warn passerby that some of the museum's exhibits do not reflect his perspective on the nation's past. In an executive order entitled “Restoring trust in the Smithsonian Institution,” the president cited a recently-released report produced...
President Trump’s new global tariffs based on forced-labor violations have already drawn a lawsuit and criticism from American allies, but experts say the legal basis may make them harder to strike down than previous tariffs. Trump’s previous “liberation day" tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) were struck down earlier this year after the Supreme Court...
Federal green grants canceled last year were selected “solely” based on a state’s political affiliation, the Trump administration said in a recent court filing. In the filing, Department of Energy (DOE) lawyer Jeff Novak said the department came up with a list of 624 grants slated for potential termination. Novak said the White House Office of...
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States is in “deep trouble” with the Iran war, comparing it to the U.S.’s drawn-out conflict in Vietnam. Panetta, who also led the CIA during the Obama administration, told CNN in an interview that "history tells us that forever wars do not end well," when asked which...
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday during a press conference that Canada is prepared to respond to President Trump’s threat of 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods if intensified negotiations for a comprehensive trade agreement fall through. “We’re ready because we have been focusing on what we can control,” Carney said. “If these tariffs,...
House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle landed in Washington this week, arriving just as the United Kingdom cycled through yet another prime minister. "We're overachieving on Prime Ministers," he said during an interview at the British ambassador’s residence in Washington D.C., comparing the churn to London buses: "They all come at once." Though the...
Paramount Skydance said Friday that it has agreed to delay the company’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery amid a pending lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general to block the merger. The company and the attorneys general said in a court filing that both sides have agreed to halt the merger until a judge’s...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) made a surprise, last-minute endorsement for Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) over progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the open Michigan Senate race on Friday — highlighting Democratic angst over the possibility of a far-left victory in the Aug. 4 primary. “As governor, I've had one strategy: Get things done. And that strategy informs...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story OpenAI, Hugging Face breach stokes fears on what's next for AI Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology startup Hugging Face. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File The...
Morris Katz, the Democratic strategist who helped recruit Graham Platner to run for the U.S. Senate in Maine, reflected on the string of controversies that led up to Platner’s decision to exit the race. In a podcast interview with The New York Times’s Ezra Klein released Friday, Katz addressed resurfaced Reddit posts the Democratic candidate...
