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 President Trump has a two-in-three chance of winning the White House in November, according to The Economist’s election forecast model launched Wednesday. The model predicts Trump has a 66-in-100 chances of winning, while President Biden has a 33-in-100 chance of winning. The results are similar to a forecast model from Decision Desk HQ and The Hill released...
Former President Trump on Wednesday pushed for all remaining Bitcoin to be mined in the United States, marking his latest shift in support for the crypto industry. "We want all the remaining Bitcoin to be MADE IN THE USA!!! It will help us be ENERGY DOMINANT!!!" Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social. The former president...
Eight people in the U.S. with suspected ties to the Islamic State have been detained, according to reports. The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles and the individuals entered the country through the southern border, anonymous sources told The Associated Press. Their connection to the Islamic State group is not immediately...
Democrats are split over the continued pro-Palestinian protests that rocked college campuses across the country, a new poll shows, possibly previewing a generational divide on the issue heading into the November election. The Politico-Morning Consult poll found 26 percent of Democratic respondents said they think student protestors are "in the right and doing the right...
Only a third of voters are confident that Vice President Harris would win an election if she were the Democratic presidential nominee, according to a new survey. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, conducted in late May and released Wednesday, found that 14 percent of voters said it was very likely Harris would win an election and...
Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) will be able to take summer trips to the Poconos while he awaits his federal fraud trial this fall, according to new court documents. U.S. District Court Judge Joanna Seybert granted Santos's request to make trips to Mt. Pocono in Pennsylvania, specifically to Tobyhanna, Penn., per a court document filed...
Former President Trump is leading President Biden by 2 points in a hypothetical race among Pennsylvania voters, according to a new poll. The Marist Poll survey, released Wednesday, found Trump received 47 percent support to President Biden's 45 percent. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy garnered only 3 percent, while 2 percent said they were still...
Requiring Justice Samuel Alito to explain himself under oath is the only way for our government to begin the long and difficult process of restoring public trust in the Supreme Court.
Consumer prices did not rise on the whole in May and the annual inflation rate came in slower than expected, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the popular gauge of inflation, was unchanged over the past month and is up 3.3 percent annually. The CPI was expected...
Former President Trump continued his near-perfect record of congressional endorsements this cycle in Tuesday night’s elections, as all the candidates he supported emerged victorious over their primary opponents. Voters flocked to the polls in four states Tuesday: Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina. Ohio also held a special election in the deep-red 6th district....
Politics is the one area of life where everyone speaks like they’re soothsayers. Most people get their declarations of the future wildly wrong, and there are almost no consequences for any of it. But politics is not consequence-free, at least not in its results. Who wins matters, a lot. Often, the winner is a foregone...
