President Trump pardoned Michele Fiore, a Republican member of the Las Vegas City Council who was convicted for using donations raised for a statue of a fallen police officer on herself instead.
WILL JUDGE DUGAN BECOME THE NEXT HERO OF THE RESISTANCE? The Trump administration’s campaign against sanctuary jurisdictions took a big step forward on Friday when federal agents arrested a county judge in Milwaukee after the judge allegedly helped an illegal immigrant accused of multiple crimes hide from federal immigration officials who had come to detain him. […]
One of the several women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking died on Friday at the age of 41. Virginia Giuffre was pronounced dead by suicide at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed to the Associated Press. “Deeply loving, wise and funny, she was a beacon to other survivors and victims,” publicist...
Former House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed the Democratic Party over its internal fractions, comparing the battle between figureheads to a “civil war.” “The party we are watching today, Democrat, is a civil war. It's the reason why there are no leaders of the party,” McCarthy said during a Friday morning appearance on Fox...
Luigi Mangione pleaded not guily to a federal judge on Friday, denying his involvement in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, a 26 year old Ivy League graduate from Maryland, could be charged with capital punishment if convicted of the violent crime. Attorney General Pam Bondi encouraged the acting U.S. Attorney for...
Cenk Uygur, founder and host of “The Young Turks,” said President Trump is “blowing it” on his tariff messaging because he “lacks empathy” and has not leveled with the American public about the immediate financial pain they might feel in exchange for long-term pay off. In an interview Tuesday on NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland...
Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found. Excavations at a cave on the island of Malta have uncovered stone tools, cooking site and animal skeletons from 8,500 years ago — 1,000 years before the first farmers arrived on the island, according to findings published in the journal Nature. The...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) voiced agreement with some of President Trump’s trade policies during a speech from Washington on Wednesday, but warned against his use of sweeping tariffs. “These last few days have been tough for Michigan,” Whitmer said, noting the state’s automobile industry and international border with Canada. “People are struggling after years of...
Millions of dollars in federal funding to Cornell University and Northwestern University have been frozen, the latest colleges to be targeted by the Trump administration. Around $790 million has been paused for Northwestern and more than $1 billion for Cornell over allegations the institutions are violating civil rights law, the White House said, The Associated...
What we are witnessing is the end result of a presidency where values are fluid and transactional, expertise is irrelevant and our national credibility is an afterthought.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke with investors Tuesday morning at a summit hosted by the American Bankers Association. His remarks came as the U.S. economy has been under the microscope after President Trump issued sweeping tariffs on nearly all foreign trading partners. Aside from a 10 percent baseline tariff that went into effect over the...
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said President Trump is going “so overboard” on his tariff agenda. Schumer joined CNN on Tuesday, just a day before Trump’s latest round of sweeping reciprocal tariffs went into effect on Wednesday. He was pushing for Congress to take action against the new trade policies as they spark instability at home...
With President Trump's latest tariffs underway, a group of House Democrats are calling on the administration to try to protect medical supply chains from the "devastating consequences" the mounting trade war could inflict on patients. Led by Democratic Reps. Doris Matsui (Calif.) and Brad Schneider (Ill.), 26 House Democrats signed a letter to U.S. Trade...
China on Wednesday announced a new 50 percent tariff on U.S. exports, intensifying a trade war initiated by President Trump that is showing no signs of slowing down as it causes economic chaos around the world. “The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake and once again...
President Trump's latest round of sweeping reciprocal tariffs went into effect early Wednesday, including a 104 percent import tax on China. The tariffs, which Trump announced April 2, the day he dubbed “Liberation Day,” hit nearly all foreign trading partners with an import tax on products coming into the U.S. A baseline 10 percent tariff,...
