The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, establishing spending at the Pentagon and other priorities for the coming year. The bill approves a record $901 billion in military spending for fiscal 2026, roughly $8 billion more than what the Trump administration requested. It includes a nearly 4 percent pay increase for...
Presented by the Bank Policy Institute — {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy PRESENTED BY THE BANK POLICY INSTITUTE The Big Story November inflation slowdown surprises experts The consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.7 percent over the 12-month span ending in November, Economists expected the annual inflation rate to rise to 3.1 percent...
A group of Democratic senators introduced legislation to reverse gun tax credits in the Republicans’ summer spending bill and use the repurposed funding for Medicare. The Medicare Investment and Gun Violence Prevention Act aims to strike credits for silencers, shotguns and firearm transfers while in turn using the $1.7 billion in savings for Medicare over...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said he wishes someone could have told President Trump "how math works" in touting his administration's successes 11 months since he returned to the White House. "Somebody must have showed him some, like, abysmal poll numbers and said, 'You better get out there in front of the American people and explain...
All Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have demanded a public hearing on the Trump administration’s boat strike campaign over “serious concerns” the strikes may violate U.S. criminal laws, a request the panel’s head has already denied. In a letter dated Wednesday and sent to committee Chair Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the lawmakers say...
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara criticized federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents this week after an attempted arrest on Monday led to a chaotic scene in which an officer dragged a woman through the street as agents fended off protesters. Video of the incident shows an agent kneeling on a woman’s back as she...
Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), called on white men to come forward with employment and workplace discrimination complaints. Lucas said Wednesday in a video on the social platform X that white men may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws, and should contact the EEOC...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Thursday issued a pardon for famed country music star Jason DeFord, whose stage name is Jelly Roll. DeFord was previously convicted of robbery as a juvenile but was granted parole in 2005. While on parole, he was found in possession of cocaine and was charged with the intent to...
President Trump on Thursday evening will sign the mammoth defense policy bill for fiscal 2026 into law. The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday, sending the $900 billion policy bill to Trump's desk, a week after the House overwhelmingly advanced the legislation. Headlining the NDAA is a pay bump of nearly...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats are expecting the Trump administration to release the full files on Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, as required by law. "Based on my conversations with some of the top Democrats who've been working on this matter related to the full and complete disclosure of the Epstein...
Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, announced a merger Thursday with TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup, in a deal valued at $6 billion. Together, the two companies are planning to create the “world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant.” The unprecedented project is intended to create electricity through fusion at 50 million watts...
Peter Navarro’s bid to overturn his conviction for evading a congressional subpoena appeared to receive little backing from a federal appeals court Thursday. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit grilled Navarro lawyer Stanley Brand during an unusual oral argument where only the White House trade adviser’s counsel laid out a case, after the Justice Department dropped its defense of the prosecution earlier this...
Senate leaders are nearing a deal to pass a package of five appropriations bills that would fund most of the federal government through fiscal 2026, which has the potential to largely take the threat of a government shutdown off the table early next year. Senators were waiting Thursday afternoon for a deal to set up...
The Treasury Department on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting 29 vessels that the U.S. says are part of Iran’s “shadow fleet,” used to transport oil and petroleum products through deceptive shipping practices. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the 29 entities, along with their respective management firms, which “have transported hundreds of...
