Members of the House Republican Study Committee, fresh off August recess, will give remarks Tuesday afternoon on President Trump's police takeover of the nation's capital. Trump last month deployed National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials to the district to patrol the streets and aid in his crackdown on crime. The president has floated...
Michael Froman, former U.S. trade representative and current president of the Council on Foreign Relations, has called for the abandonment of the rule-based international trading system overseen by the WTO. However, James Bacchus, a former member of Congress, argues that the multilateral trading system has been beneficial for the U.S. and other countries.
Comedian Rosie O’Donnell issued an apology for alleging the Minneapolis school shooter was a “MAGA person.” “I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect,” O’Donnell said in a video posted on Sunday. “I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak to the press Tuesday as lawmakers have just 14 days left until government funding lapses. Democrats face a critical choice of how much they want to work with their GOP colleagues to agree on a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open past the Sept. 30...
President Trump is set to make an announcement from the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon. “The President will be making an exciting announcement related to the Department of Defense," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new location for Space Command, moving the agency's headquarters...
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s ruling that prevented the Trump administration from clawing back billions of dollars in climate spending. The 2-1 decision from a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., vacated a lower court ruling that would have prevented the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from recouping billions issued for climate-friendly projects under...
Venezuela is at “maximum preparedness” in light of the U.S. military bolstering its maritime force in the Caribbean to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said. “In the face of this maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum preparedness for the defense of Venezuela,” Maduro said on Monday during a...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the Trump administration has a wide array of backup plans to impose tariffs on foreign trading partners if the Supreme Court strikes down the rates set under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). "I'm confident the Supreme Court will ... uphold the president's authority to use IEEPA,"...
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has endorsed Zohran Mamdani to lead the country’s largest city with the mayoral race just over two months away. The former mayor, who served two terms leading the city from 2014 to 2021, said in an op-ed in the New York Daily News published Tuesday that...
Richard Besser, former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Monday called Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “major ideologue” amid turmoil at the CDC. “And now with the loss of leadership and secretary of Health who came in not just with policy differences, but he‘s...
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Tuesday that Moscow has never been against Ukraine joining the European Union (EU) but reiterated that the country’s potential ascension into NATO is “unacceptable.” "As for Ukraine's membership of the EU, we have never objected to this," Putin said while in China, according to Reuters. "As for NATO, this is...
President Trump will reportedly announce Tuesday that Space Command headquarters is moving to Alabama, reversing former President Biden's decision to keep the command in Colorado. “The President will be making an exciting announcement related to the Department of Defense," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The announcement is scheduled for 2...
