President Trump announced Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that eliminate an electric vehicle (EV) mandate introduced under the Biden administration. The 2024 EV mandate aimed to facilitate the transition from gas-powered to EVs by setting new pollution standards for automakers' vehicle fleets, which were intentionally difficult to meet without introducing new electric or...
Former Kennedy Center employees accused the iconic performing arts venue's leadership in a letter to Congress of halting planned waterproofing repairs earlier this year. In the Thursday letter, David Seide, an attorney representing the whistleblowers, shared internal documents which he said challenged the Kennedy Center board's claims that these leaks constituted the venue's immediate closure. ...
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said he predicts a bird flu pandemic will happen, it’s just a matter of when that will be. Redfield joined NewsNation Friday to discuss the growing concern for bird flu, as the virus has been detected in dozens of cattle across the country and...
Lara Trump, the co-Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, promised Friday to prosecute anyone who cheats in an election, threatening “we will track you down.” “This year is the year we do it,” Lara Trump said at Turning Point USA’s Detroit convention. “We are also sending a loud and...
The picture of rural America as a dying wasteland home to a dwindling number of angry white people may appeal to folks who have never been here. But it’s wrong.
Russia’s increasing use of hybrid and gray-zone attacks against European countries is posing a major challenge for the U.S. and NATO: how to respond without sparking a major conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Baltic countries, Poland and the Czech Republic in particular, are raising alarm that acts of sabotage — and sometimes fatal attacks...
The U.S. military once again is pausing operations on its temporary floating pier off the coast of Gaza as wind and rough seas are expected in the coming days. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Friday that the temporary pier will be removed from its anchored position in Gaza and towed back to Ashdod, Israel...
The administration is shaking up federal immigration detention and enforcement amid a push to cut costs systemwide and increase detention capacity to implement President Biden’s new asylum policy. The bombshell cost-cutting plan came out Monday, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the closure of the South Texas Family Residential Center, a 10-year-old detention facility...
Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict marks the latest wrinkle thrown into the 2024 campaign between President Biden and former President Trump ahead of their November contest. For Biden, the outcome blunts Republican claims of a two-tiered Justice system and the weaponization of the DOJ against the president’s political rival. But those close to Biden said the...
Former President Trump may be set for controversy at next month’s Republican National Convention — and not only because he reportedly described its host city of Milwaukee as “horrible” earlier this week. The convention’s planners are making contingencies for the possibility that Trump will not be able to attend the event in person, according to...
The Rev. Al Sharpton denounced former President Trump's latest race-related comments, urging voters to "look at his record" on past issues involving Black Americans before leaning into his rhetoric. Sharpton joined MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Friday, where she asked him about Trump’s recent comments highlighted by Semafor where he touted that he has “so many Black...
Former President Trump took a swing at President Biden Friday during his birthday message, reupping his calls for aptitude tests as the incumbent continues to face scrutiny over his mental fitness. Trump celebrated his 78th birthday Friday at a Club 47 event in West Palm Beach, Fla., using much of his speech attacking Biden as...
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) did not mince words with how he felt about the Supreme Court's decision Friday to strike down a ban on bump stocks. During an interview on CNN, Heinrich claimed that Justice Clarence Thomas was not being honest about the components of bump stocks — a modification that gives the shooter the...
Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will take their contempt of Congress case against Attorney General Merrick Garland’s to court, after the Justice Department (DOJ) refused to pursue charges. “It is sadly predictable that the Biden administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted...
