LA is fading as a destination for real estate investors from abroad. Once a prime choice for international buyers, LA has been declining for six years. It attracts less...
Multiple hosts on ABC’s “The View” slammed Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for his litany of controversies, after reports surfaced over the weekend that he sent sexually explicit messages to women after he married his wife. Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House director of strategic communications during President Trump’s first term, listed...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday indicated that he is willing to take a federal appeals court decision restricting his transgender military ban to the Supreme Court. Earlier in the day, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled that the Trump administration, under a policy implemented by Hegseth last year, is unconstitutionally expelling troops actively...
Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) on Monday introduced legislation to block the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) scrapped earlier in the day. The bill, dubbed the Drain the Slush Fund Act, would bar the use of taxpayer money for payments to President Trump,...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) slammed a recent Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, saying the decision “risks disenfranchising millions.” “Today's Supreme Court decision is a direct assault on the promise of the Voting Rights Act. It risks disenfranchising millions of Americans along racial lines and weakening the very foundation of...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday that his relationship with President Donald Trump “remains good” after Trump lashed out at him for criticizing the conflict with Iran. "From my perspective, my personal relationship with the U.S. President remains good,” Merz told reporters, according to Reuters. “I simply had doubts from the start about what...
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on Tuesday adopted new regulations on autonomous vehicles (AVs) to curb public safety issues and keep manufacturers in check. New regulations include expanding "safety and oversight requirements for" all types of AVs, the DMV said in a statement released Tuesday. This will allow law enforcement agencies to cite...
President Trump said Wednesday that in order to end a blockade he imposed in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran would have to "cry uncle" and "give up" though the Iranians have given no indication they intend to do so anytime soon. Trump also called his blockade “genius” without giving a timeline for how long it...
Former Fox News host and New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano on Wednesday said the indictment against former FBI Director James Comey would likely be tossed out. “I think Comey’s people will move to dismiss it, that it’s protected speech, and I think that motion will be granted,” Napolitano said during an appearance on...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he plans to stay on at the central bank as a governor after his term as chair ends next month “for a period of time to be determined.” “I have said that I will not leave the board until this investigation is well and truly over with...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) does not seem fond of the State Department’s plan to include President Trump’s likeness in new passport designs to commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bacon said during an appearance on “CNN News Central” on Wednesday morning that he found the idea “a little silly,” alluding to widespread imagery of...
The world urgently needs new antibiotics, yet the market routinely punishes companies that take on the long, risky and expensive work of developing them.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Tuesday celebrated the Supreme Court ruling striking down Louisiana’s congressional map that created a second-Black majority district. “Today’s decision is a victory for the Constitution and the principle that every American citizen is equal under the law,” NRCC Chairman Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) wrote in a statement. ...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday said the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey was "not an audition" for the Department of Justice's (DOJ) top job, and that he was "absolutely, positively not" directed to pursue the indictment at President Trump's request. Comey was indicted in connection with an Instagram post from last...
The European Union's executive branch accused Meta of violating its sweeping digital rules that require technology platforms to minimize the risks of harm for users, including children and young people. The European Commission, in a report released Wednesday, said Meta has violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by allegedly failing to identify and prevent minors...
The Supreme Court’s liberal justices called their colleagues’ decision clawing back race-based redistricting on Wednesday a “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act. In a 48-page dissent, Justice Elena Kagan held up the landmark 1965 law as helpful to the nation’s progress on racial discrimination. “At this last stage, the Court’s gutting of Section 2...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday said he hopes the Justice Department has stronger evidence against former FBI Director James Comey than “just the picture in the sand." Comey was indicted with a second round of charges on Tuesday for allegedly threatening to harm President Trump after posting a photo of seashells arranged in a...
