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LA’s real estate decline is another red flag — and a reason for change

LA is fading as a destination for real estate investors from abroad. Once a prime choice for international buyers, LA has been declining for six years. It attracts less...

Dems want to tax Bay Area residents for BART, whether they ride or not

Sacramento Democrats have found a creative new way to raise taxes. Instead of asking...

View hosts criticize Platner amid sexting controversy

Multiple hosts on ABC’s “The View” slammed Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for his litany of controversies, after reports surfaced over the weekend that he sent sexually explicit messages to women after he married his wife. Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House director of strategic communications during President Trump’s first term, listed...

Hegseth says ‘see you at SCOTUS’ after appeals court rules Trump admin illegally banned active transgender troops

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday indicated that he is willing to take a federal appeals court decision restricting his transgender military ban to the Supreme Court. Earlier in the day, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled that the Trump administration, under a policy implemented by Hegseth last year, is unconstitutionally expelling troops actively...

Senate Democrats unveil bill to block Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) on Monday introduced legislation to block the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) scrapped earlier in the day. The bill, dubbed the Drain the Slush Fund Act, would bar the use of taxpayer money for payments to President Trump,...

Live updates: Gabbard exits DNI role; Trump defends ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will leave the Trump administration next month, citing her husband's fight with a rare bone cancer. "At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle,” Gabbard said in her resignation letter, obtained by The Hill. In...

Tulsi Gabbard to resign from Trump Intel post

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigned Friday, citing her husband's battle with a rare form of bone cancer. “My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to...

Brown v. Board at 72: Will America move forward or backward?

Seventy-two years after Brown v. Board of Education, the fight for equal justice under the law continues as the hard-fought gains of generations are once again under attack, and it is more important than ever to organize, mobilize, and vote in order to protect the legacy of those who fought for the right to vote.

Trump directs legal migrants to return to home country to apply for green cards

The Trump administration on Friday announced prospective immigrants would need to return to their home country to apply for green cards, a move that would stifle the most common pathway used for legal immigration. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) portrayed the new policy memo as “returning to the original intent of the law,” while...

AI capital spending is offsetting soft consumer spending — for now 

When growth in AI capital spending is scaled back at some point, U.S. economic growth will slow, and the stock market will likely enter bear territory.

Trump defends DOJ ‘anti-weaponization’ fund from GOP critics

President Trump is defending his administration’s creation of a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in response to heavy criticism not only from Democrats but from Republicans in the Senate, who delayed votes on a reconciliation package Thursday over the issue. The battle has become a rare point of contention between normally pliant congressional Republicans and...

When political party is prioritized over country, everyone loses

In Congress, governing with the other side is now treated as betrayal. The message to elected officials is clear: Do not solve problems together, do not negotiate, do not govern. Just fight. 

Trump rips Tillis after compensation fund criticism: ‘Nitpicker’

President Trump tore into Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Friday morning after the Republican lawmaker criticized the Department of Justice's (DOJ) newly debuted “anti-weaponization fund.” “I called him a ‘Nitpicker,’ always fighting against the Republican Party, and ME, mostly on things that didn’t matter,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. The president referred...

UK broadens inquiry into former Prince Andrew

British police appealed for witnesses Friday as they sought to broaden their investigation into potential offenses by the former Prince Andrew, including sexual misconduct.

A militarily expanding Germany has the right idea

When Friedrich Merz assumed the chancellorship last year, he promised that "the rule for our defense now has to be 'whatever it takes.'"

Trump: Stephen Colbert firing ‘beginning of the end’ for late-night hosts

President Trump on Friday celebrated the cancellation of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" and suggested other late-night TV hosts would also shortly be on the chopping block. "Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the 'Beginning of the End' for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts," Trump...

Greene: Trump may use Iran as excuse to cancel presidential election

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday she fears President Trump may use the war in Iran to try to cancel the 2028 presidential election. Greene, who resigned from Congress in January after a public falling-out with the president, was once a loyal MAGA ally and one of Trump’s fiercest defenders. Her frustrations over...

Economic confidence worst in almost 4 years: Gallup

Americans are growing more pessimistic about the state of the national economy, with confidence in the overall landscape reaching its lowest level in nearly four years, according to new Gallup data. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index, which measures the public’s perception of the health of the U.S. economy, fell to negative 45 in May. It...

The hidden victims of Trump’s Iran War energy crisis: public schools

Some 50 million students have become collateral damage in a conflict 7,000 miles away.

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