President Trump on Monday celebrated the biggest trophy yet for his tariff agenda: a Minnesota company's plans to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa, where midterm voters are being promised the first new steel plant built in the U.S. in 57 years.
Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White House communications director under the Trump administration, slammed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley over her support for former President Trump, saying, "there's no backbone in her decision." In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Scaramucci added that "she knows the danger." "She's smarter than what she's doing right now....
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a new partnership Friday that will double internet access across Africa. Roughly 40 percent of the continent has access to the web, and the new partnership looks to increase it to 80 percent. Harris’s announcement follows a trip last year to Africa and came as Kenyan President William Ruto visited...
Egypt has agreed to send United Nations humanitarian aid trucks through Israel’s main crossing into Gaza, but it’s unclear if they can enter into the southern city of Rafah as Israel ramps up its offensive against Hamas militants. Israeli troops seized the Rafah crossing into Egypt and it has been inoperative since. However, the Kerem...
I’ve lived in a world where our children were more likely to visit the ER for monkey bars crashes than gunshot wounds. It’s our choice and responsibility to make that our reality again.
Former President Trump went after James Comey Friday, after the former FBI director suggested prosecutors could have enough to convict Trump in his criminal hush money case. “The Worst FBI Director in History, who I inherited from the Obama Administration, but fired almost immediately into ours, along with many other Corrupt Actors in the DOJ...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) signaled Friday that several of her Republican colleagues showed their approval of her response to the fracas with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) last week, even giving her a "thumbs up." Asked by MSNBC host Joy Reid about the spat and how it is to work alongside Greene, Crockett said it...
A U.S. missionary couple, including the daughter of a Missouri state representative, and a resident assisting them were killed in Haiti's capital city after heading out from a youth group activity, according to the family. “My heart is broken in a thousand pieces. I’ve never felt this kind of pain,” a Facebook post from Missouri...
Special counsel Jack Smith in a Friday filing called on the judge overseeing former President Trump's classified documents case to block Trump from speaking about the case in a way that could endanger law enforcement officials. In his request, Smith asked the court to impose a condition that would bar Trump from making public statements...
Former President Trump took to social media Friday evening lashing out at the judge overseeing his hush money trial, suggesting the charges in the case were based on a simple "bookkeeping error." "The bookkeeping error that I am being incorrectly and unconstitutionally prosecuted for is the fact that a bookkeeper, innocently and correctly, called a...
Louisiana became the first state to criminalize abortion pills without a valid prescription Friday, when the state's Republican governor signed a controversial bill declaring two abortion medications as controlled substances. The legislation makes it illegal for mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs used to induce a medicated abortion, to be obtained without a prescription. Gov. Jeff Landry...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. targeted former President Trump over his administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, as he spoke to Libertarians during their party convention Friday. Kennedy argued that the former president and his administration had violated people's First Amendment rights when they instituted health guidelines to combat the coronavirus pandemic. “I think he...
Families of the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, shooting sued tech and arms companies Friday, accusing them of “wrongful death.” In two separate complaints in California and Texas, the families accused companies including Meta, Activision — the publisher of the video game Call of Duty — and arms manufacturer Daniel Defense of grooming “a generation...
