A C-17 Globemaster left Joint Base Andrews on Aug. 25, routed by way of Riga, Latvia, and landed in Moscow. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard and spent about eight hours there. The Kremlin says he did not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump called the trip semi-routine. What Ratcliffe carried there is […]
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday reflected on his decision to wield a chain saw on stage in February to tout government spending cuts, saying the move “lacked empathy.” Musk’s remark came in response to criticism from a social media user who pushed back on Musk’s claim that “Hitting the debt ceiling is the only...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) struck a nerve with House Rules Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Wednesday while lobbying against the Trump-backed "big, beautiful bill." “You see, they say they’re pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school, and get shot in the school. Die in the schools, die on the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasted Paramount Global after the company agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump. The settlement comes as Paramount is working to secure a multibillion-dollar merger with Skydance, a deal that will need approval from Trump's government regulators. "It is a dark day for freedom of...
Private-sector employers cut 33,000 jobs in June, the first monthly decline in more than two years, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday. The latest report comes as a surprise to economists who had anticipated a gain of about 100,000 jobs last month. Service-providing industries led the losses with a net decline of...
A team of University of California researchers say they have developed a tool that could help steer the aviation sector toward making smarter decisions when it comes to climate-related impacts. The Global Warming per Activity tool, highlighted on Wednesdaay in Nature, measures how long and how strongly each aviation activity affects the atmosphere — whether that activity...
U.S.-Russian dual citizen Ksenia Karelina, a former ballerina, said she’s been “really, really happy” since she was released from Russia in a prisoner exchange in April. “It feels amazing. It feels so great. And I'm just overwhelmed with feeling of happiness and gratitude now,” Karelina said in an exclusive interview on NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” when anchor...
Rep. Lloyd Doggett criticized the Republican-controlled Senate for making the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" even worse than the House version, and urged his colleagues to oppose the bill due to its drastic measures and increase to the federal debt.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow President Trump to fire three Democratic appointees at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). It’s the administration’s latest emergency bid at the high court to greenlight the president’s efforts to remake agencies that have traditionally operated with a degree of independence from the White...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr will give his first major address since taking on the role, outlining the Trump administration's "Build America" agenda Wednesday afternoon. Carr's remarks come as President Trump and the administration have turned up the heat on public broadcasters — primarily NPR and PBS — and other mainstream media outlets...
Former President Biden is in San Diego on Wednesday where he will headline the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) annual conference with remarks focused on the U.S. workforce and economy after leaving the White House. According to the press release, Biden is expected to "provide his unique perspective" on "leadership, workforce transformation, and the...
Siberia offers a tantalizing prize with fewer immediate risks. Its vast reserves of oil, gas, gold, diamonds, rare earth minerals and fresh water are critical to sustaining China’s resource-strapped economy.
A cross-section of House Republicans — from hardline conservatives to moderates — are headed to the White House on Wednesday to meet with President Trump about the party’s “big, beautiful bill” of tax cut and spending priorities. The meetings come as GOP leaders lean on Republican holdouts who have voiced serious opposition to the bill, threatening...
A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration from ending deportation protections for Haitians ahead of the date set under the Biden administration, the latest blow to efforts from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to end the legal status. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Cogan ruled Noem could not issue a “partial vacatur” of...
