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 […]
The White House is blasting media coverage of a case involving a Maryland resident who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador as part of President Trump's sweeping immigration reform initiatives. "President Trump and our administration will not rest until every single violent illegal alien is removed from our country," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) raised nearly $10 million in the first quarter of 2025, marking her strongest quarter ever, according to her campaign. Ocasio-Cortez’s team said she raised more than $9.5 million from 260,000 individual donors, with an average donation of $21. The progressive congresswoman enters the second quarter with $8.2 million cash on hand. ...
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are undermining the Social Security Administration's efforts to prevent fraud, causing confusion and fear among beneficiaries, and creating a climate of uncertainty and vulnerability to fraud.
Federal charges have been filed against New Mexico man Jamison Wagner, 40, in connection to the arson attacks at the Tesla Albuquerque Showroom and the Republican Party of New Mexico (RPNM) headquarters.
Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general, said President Trump’s idea to send U.S. prisoners to El Salvador is an “abomination.” Litman joined CNN News Central with Boris Sanchez on Monday after Trump met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele at the White House to discuss deportations. He was sharply critical...
Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped a question about whether President Trump’s openness to holding U.S. citizens in foreign prisons would be legal, instead referencing the potential need for more prisons in the country. During a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Monday, Trump was asked whether he would consider sending U.S. citizens convicted of...
President Trump is not expected to attend next weekend's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, The Hill confirmed Tuesday. Trump did not attend any of the annual dinners during his first term, bucking a tradition that went back several administrations. Earlier this year, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not rule out the possibility of...
Invisible chemicals rising from children’s mattresses may be harming their brains and bodies. That’s according to a pair of studies published on Tuesday, which found troubling levels of plastic-like “phthalate” chemicals and flame retardants in the bedrooms of children under four. "Parents should be able to lay their children down for sleep knowing they are safe and...
The Chinese embassy in Argentina has criticized Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for “maliciously slandering” the country as it continues to fund development assistance for African and Latin American countries. “We advise the U.S. to adjust its mindset, instead of spending time repeatedly smearing and attacking China, meddling in the foreign cooperation of regional countries,” the...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling on a federal judge to set a deadline at a Tuesday hearing for the Trump administration to comply with a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador. In an interview Monday on...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) shot up in a poll that asked about the 2028 Democratic presidential primary after his recent record-breaking Senate speech. Booker placed second in a hypothetical primary behind former Vice President Kamala Harris in an Echelon Insights poll released this week, drawing support from 11 percent of respondents. In the same poll...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who could emerge as a key vote on President Trump’s agenda, says working-class Americans should be able to take tax deductions on their payroll taxes, which would save thousands of dollars for families earning less than $80,000 per year. Hawley, who has already come out against steep cuts to Medicaid, is...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday backed a stock trading ban for sitting members of Congress, after ripping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for reportedly profiting off market fluctuations around President Trump's tariff rollercoaster. The New York Times reported Monday that Greene disclosed thousands worth of stock trades on April 8 and 9, worth...
