Americans' belief that government corruption is widespread hit a record 89% this year, driven by rare bipartisan convergence as Democrats' concern is now only marginally higher than that of Republicans, according to a new poll.
In today’s issue: The “big, beautiful” megabill just ran into an Elon Musk-shaped roadblock. President Trump’s signature tax and domestic policy bill, which faces consideration in the Senate this week, has been on thin ice for months. The massive, sweeping piece of legislation barely passed the House, and now faces an even tougher crowd in...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Meta have wrapped up a six-week trial over the Facebook and Instagram parent’s alleged social networking monopoly, leaving the final decision in the hands of the judge. The trial, which came to a close last week, seeks to determine whether Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking that...
The educational research community is looking to pick up the pieces after the Trump administration has canceled dozens of studies and ended hundreds of jobs. In line with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), hundreds of federal contracts have been canceled with education research groups, accused by the administration of either being useless or...
President Trump has fielded questions from the Oval Office in recent weeks about Elon Musk’s drug use, sensitive matters of diplomacy and the ethics of accepting a Qatari jet as a gift to be used as Air Force One. He’s chafed at some of those questions, but few set him off like the one he...
Two Chinese citizens were charged with a conspiracy and smuggling of a fungus that officials said is a "dangerous biological pathogen" into the United States. Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, were charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the country, false statements and visa fraud on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
A Texas man was arrested for allegedly trespassing at Mar-a-Lago early morning on Tuesday, telling law enforcement that he wanted to "spread the gospel" to President Trump and marry the commander-in-chief's granddaughter. Anthony Thomas Reyes, 23, was arrested by the Palm Beach Police Department for "unlawfully entering" the Mar-a-Lago Club, Trump's resort in Palm Beach,...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Tuesday blasted the megabill featuring President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities and backed tech billionaire Elon Musk’s recent comments on it. In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” host Blake Burman brought up an earlier post from Musk on the social platform X in which he called the legislation...
The Army has hit its annual recruiting goal of 61,000 new active duty soldiers, four months ahead of the end of fiscal 2025 in September, the service announced Tuesday. The Army said the goal - 10 percent higher than the 55,000 recruits it sought last year - “represents a significant turning point for the Army...
Miles Taylor, a former deputy chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration who wrote an op-ed criticizing President Trump, said the president is creating a "modern blacklist." "I think he wants to create a modern blacklist and have that blacklist ruin people's lives," Taylor responded when asked what...
A South Florida meteorologist warned viewers that National Weather Service (NWS) shortages will impact his forecasts. In a segment that aired Tuesday on WTVJ, a local NBC television station, meteorologist John Morales talked about previous coverage of a hurricane in 2019, saying, “confidently, I went on TV, and I told you, ‘It’s going to turn....
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sparred with a legal professor during a Tuesday congressional hearing over nationwide injunctions issued by district court judges against President Trump’s administration. Hawley, during the Senate Judiciary joint subcommittee hearing, presented a graph showing that the number of injunctions issued against Trump is far higher than other recent U.S. presidents. “You...
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Presented by Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding — The Food and Drug Administration commissioner has committed to reviewing the abortion drug mifepristone after previously stating he had no plans to “take action” on the drug. {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story FDA commissioner promises to investigate mifepristone Food and Drug Administration...
