President Donald Trump has long praised tariffs as key to increasing wealth in the United States, idealizing Gilded Age policies that preceded the implementation of a modern federal income tax.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said that President Trump’s controversial decision to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence for conspiring to import cocaine, sends a “horrible message.” Tillis, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Trump’s pardon of Hernandez, who was convicted in June of 2024 of conspiring...
The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller, a move that could anger the Trump administration’s allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. The Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that lawsuits...
The Trump administration on Monday stripped the words “renewable” and “energy” from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory name, furthering White House directives to abandon clean energy sources. On Monday, the Department of Energy renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to the National Laboratory of the Rockies announcing that the change is effective immediately and will...
The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to a group of faith-based pregnancy centers at oral arguments Tuesday in its fight against a subpoena from New Jersey’s Democratic attorney general seeking donor information. First Choice Women’s Resource Centers argues the demand violates the group’s First Amendment rights, but lower courts ruled the dispute isn’t ripe until a...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) brought up drone strikes conducted on former President Obama’s watch when asked about the controversy over Caribbean boat strikes authorized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Johnson was asked in a press conference Tuesday about September strikes on a boat allegedly carrying drugs. The Washington Post reported last week that Hegseth had issued an...
President Trump on Tuesday said his administration was planning to overhaul Dulles International Airport in Virginia. “We’re also going to rebuild Dulles airport because it’s not a good airport. It should be a great airport, and it’s not a good airport at all," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting. "It’s a terrible airport. It was...
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal is calling for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to testify under oath about the second strike the U.S. military conducted that killed survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean. "The charge of deliberately killing the defenseless is serious enough to warrant...
House Judiciary Democrats have launched a probe into FBI Director Kash Patel’s use of the bureau’s jet, accusing him of having “commandeered U.S. government aircraft for personal joyrides.” Patel’s travels have sparked scrutiny as he’s been seen jetting to meet with his girlfriend, attend sporting events and go on excursions. “You used a $60 million...
U.S. Navy Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley will provide a classified briefing to the senior members of the Senate and House Armed Services committees on Thursday about the Trump administration’s controversial strikes on Venezuelan boats suspected of smuggling drugs. Bradley was authorized by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to order a follow-up strike on Sept. 2...
Conservative activist Laura Loomer on Monday accused the office of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll of trying to oust Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an alleged “coup.” Hegseth's leadership has been repeatedly questioned after several scandals including texting about war plans in a Signal group chat and allegedly ordering illegal strikes on boats in the Caribbean....
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday accused a lawyer for the Pentagon of being "evasive" in answering questions about a second strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean in September, saying the attorney did not share everything with lawmakers. "He came and briefed us several weeks ago about this specific strike," Kelly...
The Texas Tech University System released new guidelines Monday on how faculty can teach about race and gender in the classrooms. Chancellor Brandon Creighton sent a memo to the system’s presidents that said faculty cannot teach that there are more than two genders and put restrictions on how race can be discussed. “State law and...
