How many “Learing Center” equivalents and other galling fraud schemes exist in California? And: How do we shut them down and hold them accountable? Take heart, dear and beleaguered taxpayers:...
There's a growing sense of frustration with the Trump Justice Department among some parental activists who say they had expected a friendlier ear from the new team at DOJ.
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...
MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough suggested that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) work with President Trump to fight crime in Chicago. “I actually think that JB Pritzker should do something radical,” Scarborough said on his morning talk show on MSNBC on Tuesday. “I think he should pick up the phone, call the president and say, you know and, 'I...
President Trump's newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the economy sours.
House GOP leaders on Tuesday morning added to this week’s House schedule a vote on a resolution directing the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to continue its investigation into matters surrounding the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The addition comes as leaders contend with an alternative push to force a vote on a...
President Trump wants poor people to stay in jail when they are arrested, while still presumed innocent, even if it takes months or years before their cases come to trial. He didn’t exactly put it that way, of course. But that would be the inevitable consequence of his campaign against cashless bail. Trump announced an executive...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) rebuked President Trump’s potential deployment of the National Guard to the Windy City, telling the crowd on Monday that the city’s leaders will “protect” the “humanity” of its residents. “No federal troops in the city of Chicago. No militarized force in the city of Chicago," Johnson said during the “Workers...
As the Supreme Court closed its latest term, it did so by denying justice to Native Americans—yet again. With its refusal to hear Apache Stronghold v. United States, the court effectively allowed a foreign-owned mining company to desecrate a sacred Apache site — Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat — opening the door for it to...
A conference that has struck fear into the conservative old guard and served as an ideas lab for policies now being implemented in the Trump administration kicks off Tuesday. Now in its fifth year, the National Conservatism Conference is not a flashy rally like the Conservative Political Action Conference or events that Turning Point USA packs with young people and...
Houston, TX (AP) - An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday. The boy had been ringing doorbells as a prank late Saturday evening, the Houston Police Department said in a statement. Commonly referred to as “ding...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned his Democratic colleagues in a letter Tuesday of the growing chance of a government shutdown, declaring that “Republicans are once again threatening to go-at-it-alone” by not negotiating with Democrats on a stopgap spending measure. Schumer said the Trump administration is provoking a standoff over government funding by moving...
Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed his “old friend” Russian President Vladimir Putin to China this week as the two leaders, along with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, are set to attend a massive military parade in Beijing. Putin called Xi his “dear friend” and argued that the relationship between Russia and China, which has deepened...
