Robert Corradino has never lived anywhere but Oswego, New York. As the only commercial port city on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario, everything bears the lake’s name —...
Democrats eyeing majorities in the House and Senate are plotting how they will police Supreme Court justices they say are influenced by right-wing, dark money groups.
President Trump has commuted the sentence of top political donor Imaad Zuberi, who had been sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2021 after giving illegal campaign contributions to former President Biden and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). A White House official confirmed Trump commuted his sentence to The Hill's sister network NewsNation on Wednesday. Zuberi...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Wednesday suggested that he might not run for reelection in 2028, possibly resulting in a race for an open Senate seat in a notable battleground state in a few years. "I learned in my second run, when I absolutely meant ‘second and final,” you can’t say never, never, okay?” Johnson...
Elon Musk expressed gratitude to President Trump in a Wednesday message marking the end of his special government employee status, the latest sign of his declining involvement in the White House. In a post on X, Musk thanked Trump for the opportunity to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a panel focused on dramatically...
Donald Trump Jr. called on the University of Florida’s board of governors to reject former University of Michigan president Santa Ono as UF’s president following the school’s board of trustees unanimous vote to hire Ono. “WTF! Have the decision makers at @UF lost their minds!???” Trump Jr. exclaimed in a post on X on Wednesday....
A federal court ruled Wednesday that an emergency law does not provide President Trump with unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly every country, blocking a series of tariff announcements dating back to February that have rattled financial markets. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade unanimously ruled Congress did not delegate “unbounded” tariff authority to...
President Trump on Thursday pardoned a former Army officer who was convicted by a military court martial for refusing to follow the Pentagon’s COVID-19 safety rules. Former Lt. Mark Bashaw was discharged from the Army in 2022 during the Biden administration after he would not take the COVID-19 shot and then refused to work remotely....
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the United States will begin revoking visas from Chinese students, including "those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields." "The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields," Rubio said...
A Georgia pastor who previously called for a "full Target boycott" over the company's decision to halt its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts has now called for protests against Dollar General, according to USA Today. "Target is canceled since they have betrayed and walked away from our community, and we've gone on from there,"...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story CFTC leaders exit as Trump pick prepares to take helm All four current members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) plan to step down in the coming days and months, resigning from the agency just as it is expected to take on regulating the digital asset market. ...
President Trump and Russian officials are engaged in a war of words, a sign of escalating tensions between the two powers as Trump grows increasingly frustrated over the lack of progress toward a ceasefire in Ukraine. Trump has posted in recent days on social media that Russian President Vladimir Putin had gone “absolutely CRAZY” and...
The Trump administration last month quietly fired members of the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a nonpartisan body tasked with publishing a record of U.S. foreign policy. “On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is terminated effective immediately....
The Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee voted 4-11 to defeat a proposal to ban fluoride in public water systems, with the GOP-controlled state Senate having previously voted 24-10 to advance the measure.
Nvidia posted strong quarterly earnings Wednesday, beating Wall Street’s expectations despite new export controls imposed by the Trump administration limiting the sale of some of its advanced chips to China. The powerhouse chipmaker, which is central to the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, saw its quarterly revenue grow 69 percent year-over-year, increasing from $26 billion in...
