Work crews in Washington Monday started removing the Black Lives Matter mural that was painted on a city street two blocks from the White House five years ago.
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH ACTBLUE? The Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue was created more than 20 years ago, in 2004, at a time when Democrats were up in arms over another Republican president, George W. Bush. “In the early 2000s, grassroots supporters — frustrated with the Bush administration — were an untapped superpower for campaigns,” ActBlue officials […]
Fox News host Bret Baier weighed in on what it was like to interview President Trump, noting that there’s “a lot to fact-check.” Baier sat for an interview with NOTUS for a newsroom forum Wednesday, just hours after Trump delivered a joint address to Congress. He was asked what the most challenging part of interviewing...
Democratic senators are asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate whether tech billionaire Elon Musk, a senior adviser to President Trump, is leveraging his government position to pressure advertisers into spending more on his social media platform, X. In a letter dated Wednesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the five senators pointed to recent...
President Trump said Thursday he’s looking at whether to revoke temporary protected status for thousands of Ukrainians in the United States who fled that country’s war with Russia, but that no final decision has been made. “We're not looking to hurt anybody, and we're certainly not looking to hurt them,” Trump told reporters in the...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is allowing some offices to resume their functions, as the Trump administration faces a legal challenge over its stop work order and other efforts to overhaul the consumer watchdog. Mark Paoletta, CFPB’s chief legal officer, sent an email to employees Sunday clarifying that they should still be performing statutorily...
The American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned deputy Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson over social media posts they described as antisemitic. “Anyone who posts antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted right out of the neo-Nazi playbook should not be in public office,” the American Jewish Committee wrote in a Wednesday post on the social platform X. ...
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried talked to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson about life in prison in an interview posted Thursday to the social platform X. “It's sort of dystopian,” Bankman-Fried told Carlson on “The Tucker Carlson Show.” “You know, the fortunate thing, the place I'm in, I'm not in … I'm not in physical...
Several Republicans vowed to strip Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) and the Democrats who sang in the chamber from their committee assignments. “Today, a group of House Democrats broke decorum during the censure of Rep. Al Green and, after multiple attempts, refused to heed @SpeakerJohnson’s order,” Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said online. “I am drafting privileged...
Tensions flared in the House on Thursday as lawmakers voted to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for his disruptive protest during President Trump’s address to Congress, prompting a dramatic scene on the House floor — and demands from Republicans for further retribution. The vote on the resolution to censure Green — which was adopted in...
Butterflies are disappearing from the United States at an alarming rate, with their total population declining by more than a fifth over two decades, a new study has found. Total butterfly abundance — the total individuals of a species within a given area — plummeted by 22 percent between 2000 and 2020, according to the...
President Trump on Thursday said that Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) should be forced to take an IQ test after the congressman was removed from his joint address and later censured by the House. “[He] should be forced to pass an IQ test because he is a low IQ individual, and we don’t need low IQ...
