The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Thursday that rising energy prices caused by the ongoing conflict with Iran could lead to higher global inflation if prolonged, but it said no nation has yet reached out for emergency financial assistance. IMF communications director Julie Kozack told reporters that the organization was closely monitoring how oil and...
A new ad from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) slams his GOP primary opponent, Ed Gallrein, whom President Trump has endorsed. The ad, shared Thursday by Inside Elections journalist Jacob Rubashkin on the social platform X, opens with a photo of Massie and the president smiling and flashing thumbs-ups. It then goes on to accuse Gallrein...
The Trump administration will not restrict U.S. exports of oil or natural gas amid rising prices over the war in Iran, top officials said Thursday. In identical statements posted on social platform X, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, “To be clear, the Trump administration has no plan to implement restrictions on oil and...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) weighed in on President Trump's decision to tap Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), claiming the senator's acceptance of the nomination “shows us who he is.” “Him accepting, right, this nomination, and sitting there and wanting to be in the Cabinet, already shows us who...
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration against California last summer over the cost of eggs. U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi, a President Trump appointee, found that the federal government lacked standing to challenge California laws and regulations governing the production, sale and shipment of eggs. Scarsi did...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on Thursday endorsed Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) in the race to succeed outgoing Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R). In a release by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which Scott chairs, Thune called Hern “a proven conservative leader and fighter for Oklahomans” in the House....
A study published Wednesday shows that the early U.S. death toll during the COVID-19 pandemic was higher than previously recorded. The journal Science Advances found that more than 155,000 unrecognized additional deaths outside of hospitals between March 2020 and December 2021 likely went uncounted. This suggests that 16 percent of deaths went uncounted, as the...
A new analysis from The New York Times, along with German outlets NDR and WDR, took a closer look at the administration’s new drug pricing platform, TrumpRx. What they found is that while some prices have come down, Americans are still paying significantly more than patients in other wealthy countries,
Businessman Ryan Binkley withdrew from the GOP runoff in Texas’s newly drawn 32nd Congressional District on Tuesday, ensuring that attorney Jace Yarbrough will be the party’s nominee in November's general election. Binkley wrote in a statement Tuesday that Yarbrough “ran a disciplined campaign” and he is “genuinely excited to see what [his former opponent] will...
White House border czar Tom Homan met with a group of centrist Democrats at the Capitol on Thursday, circumventing Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who didn’t attend the meeting, in hopes of reaching a deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Homan met for more than an hour with centrist Democrats who...
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) will give remarks Thursday afternoon on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, referred to as the SAVE America Act, as the Senate weighs the sweeping election reform bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote among other measures. Lee earlier this week suggested that his GOP colleagues who...
