A federal judge on Friday paused the Trump administration's $10 billion social safety net funding freeze, temporarily restoring grants to five Democratic-led states. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had said earlier in the week that the freeze — impacting child care and family assistance funding in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New...
President Trump on Friday night called on credit card companies to cap interest rates at 10 percent. “Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe...
The Kennedy Center on Friday confirmed the Washington National Opera (WNO) will leave the renowned venue. “After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with the WNO due to a financially challenging relationship,” a Kennedy Center spokesperson told NewsNation. “We believe this represents the best path forward for both organizations and...
Minnesota, California, New York, Colorado and Illinois won a temporary victory Friday in a lawsuit over a federal funding freeze related to fraud concerns.
Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has revoked a series of executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams (D), including some aimed at supporting Israel. In one of Mamdani’s first moves as mayor, he issued a directive to undo orders signed by Adams since Sept. 26, 2024, the day Adams was...
China's BYD overtook Elon Musk’s Tesla as the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) seller in 2025, as Tesla faced declining sales for a second year in a row. BYD said Thursday that it sold about 2.26 million EVs in 2025, up nearly 28 percent from the year before. In a release Friday, Tesla said it delivered about 1.64 million EVs last year, down around 9 percent from 2024. Musk’s EV firm also saw a...
Many of us have spent the last two weeks largely checked out and concentrating on happier things than the intimate details of Jeffrey Epstein’s private life. Sadly, that’s all about to change. Come Monday, it’s going to be all Epstein all the time. That’s because the Department of Justice has made a complete hash of...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday selected Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's intelligence agency, to serve as his chief of staff as negotiations continue to end Russia’s war against the eastern European country. Zelensky wrote on the social platform X that Ukraine “needs greater focus on security issues, the development of the Defense and...
The Trump administration has violated the fundamental business principle of honoring legally binding contracts, which will cost both the Treasury and the people dearly and create obstacles to future governmental deal-making.
The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican national committee offices on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot will remain locked up while awaiting trial, a federal magistrate judge ruled. Judge Matthew Sharbaugh wrote in an order Friday that Brian Cole Jr.’s past alleged conduct demonstrates a “startling and significant capacity for dangerousness,” but acknowledged the...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Friday criticized President Trump’s threat to intervene as Iran cracks down on anti-government protests, arguing that the move would be more about oil than free speech concerns. The president vowed on Truth Social that the U.S. will “rescue” protesters if the Iranian regime takes violent action against them as demonstrations...
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologized this week after generating and sharing a sexualized image of two young girls, calling it a “failure in safeguards.” “I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt,” the...
Russia's aggression in Ukraine is being met with a double standard by some scholars, who suggest that the West is to blame and that restraint should be demanded of the victim, rather than recognizing Russia's actions as a threat to the security architecture that has maintained peace for 70 years.
President Trump revealed in an interview this week that the construction of the Triumphal Arch in Washington, D.C., is set to begin soon. “It hasn’t started yet. It starts sometime in the next two months. It’ll be great. Everyone loves it,” Trump said in an interview with Politico that was published Wednesday. “They love the...
Donald Trump promised to restore America, but his presidency revealed the country's deep-rooted issues of debt, declining soft power, and social fragmentation, which cannot be reversed by rhetoric alone.
Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams slammed Andy Cohen after the Bravo host criticized his “chaotic” tenure in city hall. “Watching the final moments of Mayor Adams’s chaotic, horrible … I just want to say, he got his pardons … No, I’m just saying. Great, you got your pardons. Go off into the sunset....
A delivery driver for DoorDash has been ousted from the platform after allegedly attempting to trick a customer into thinking their order had been delivered to their door with an AI-generated image.
