Post readers discuss New York AG Letitia James’ aide allegedly ordering staff to target people associated with President Trump — and her Michigan counterpart saying Jews “have a moral...
It’s easy to feel a certain schadenfreude over news of Meta’s $16.7 billion settlement with almost every state attorney general. Sometimes bad things happen to bad corporations. It’s hard not to cheer. For years, Meta has largely gone unchecked as it employed a business model that basically amounted to psychologically manipulating people through Skinnerian principles […]
It’s not often in Washington, D.C. that a special interest group directly contradicts itself, but the Hemp Roundtable did just that. In 2022, the Associated Press exposed how chemists were chemically processing CBD extracted from hemp to produce delta-8 THC, an intoxicating compound. A loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill opened the floodgates to unregulated […]
President Trump will host a prayer and dinner Wednesday evening in honor of the Easter holiday at the White House. The event comes less than a week before the annual Easter Egg Roll takes place April 21. The event is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT. Watch the live video above.
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is expressing concern over the Trump administration's intent to impose a nearly 21 percent tariff on most Mexican tomatoes coming into the country by withdrawing from a 2019 trade agreement, warning that it will lead to higher prices and fewer options at grocery stores. Gallego argued that the 2019 Tomato Suspension...
Presented by Ericsson — Plus: Third Hegseth adviser put on leave {beacon} Trade war shock hits US companies AMERICAN COMPANIES ARE WARNING of multibillion-dollar setbacks and extreme uncertainty over the trade war with China as earnings season gets underway. United Airlines gave two financial forecasts, saying it’s “impossible to predict” whether the U.S. might...
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze funds under Biden-era laws authorizing massive investments in climate-friendly projects. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, an appointee of President Trump during his first term, on Tuesday ordered five federal agencies to immediately resume disbursing already-awarded funds appropriated under the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment...
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg’s group, Leaders We Deserve, launched a $20 million initiative on Monday aimed at launching primary challenges against House Democrats in safe seats in the hopes of electing a new generation of leaders. “We’re not only focused on targeting Democratic incumbents when necessary,” Hogg told The Hill in...
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has made a criminal referral to the Justice Department against New York Attorney General Letitia James, arguing she said a Virginia home was her primary residence to secure more favorable loan terms. “Based on media reports, Ms. Letitia James has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records...
Thomson Reuters said that it would be dropping “diversity” from company language and would replace it with the word “inclusion” in an effort to comply with a January executive order from President Trump on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The corporation is the parent company of Reuters international news agency and also offers tech services...
The Trump administration is planning to end the free tax filing service developed during the Biden administration, The Associated Press reported, citing two people familiar with the decision. The IRS’s “Direct File program” allows Americans to file their tax returns directly to the agency for free online. The electronic system launched as a pilot program...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been losing favorability over the course of President Trump’s second White House term, according to a new survey released on Wednesday. The Economist/YouGov Poll found that just 23 percent of U.S. adults have a favorable view of Schumer, while little over half, 51 percent, of respondents said they...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the agency will launch a series of new studies aimed at finding the “environmental toxins” he believes are causing increasing rates of autism spectrum disorder. “This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin in...
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed to loosen federal protections for endangered species. A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would repeal the current definition of “harm” that’s prohibited under the Endangered Species Act. The law prohibits activity that would “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill,...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday that President Trump's aggressive new tariffs could both lower growth and raises prices — a dynamic known as stagflation, which is notoriously difficult for the central bank to control. In a Wednesday speech in Chicago, Powell said the economy could be “moving away” from the Fed's goal of...
Time is running out for some Walgreens shoppers to file for their part of a proposed class action settlement that accuses the pharmacy chain of overcharging for generic drugs.
In a recent op-ed, Seleman Yusuph Kitenge argued for an "Africa First" policy to emphasize domestic resource mobilization, strengthening transportation systems and other social services, and the advancement of institutions and human capital to strengthen Africa's economic independence and reduce reliance on foreign aid.
