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Hegseth defends strike on drug-boat survivors, touts Trump’s Reagan-style defense policies

President Trump is the true heir to Ronald Reagan when it comes to championing the former president's policy of "peace through strength," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday.

Democrats pan Trump’s new national security strategy

Several prominent congressional Democrats on Saturday slammed the Trump administration's national security strategy (NSS), claiming it favors President Trump's business interests and weakens U.S. influence abroad. "Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy puts his family’s and friends’ business interests with our adversaries, like Russia and China, over promises to our allies," Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who...

State of Texas: Minority and women-owned businesses cut from HUB program

The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts overhauled a program designed to provide more exposure to historically underutilized businesses in the state procurement process by removing female and minority-owned businesses from the eligibility standards.

Hegseth highlights US-first national defense strategy

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday took the podium at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum to attack post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy, declaring a new military focus on the Western Hemisphere while lambasting the decisions of former administrations. Over roughly 40 minutes, Hegseth touched on a myriad of topics, including repeated demands that allies...

Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes DHS using book name in Charlotte operation

Martha White, the granddaughter of “Charlotte’s Web” author E.B. White, slammed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for using the novel’s name to refer to its Charlotte, N.C., immigration enforcement operation. The Trump administration has called the endeavor “Operation Charlotte’s Web.” “He believed in the rule of law and due process,” Martha White said in...

Trump on economy: ‘You’re so damn lucky I won’

President Trump told attendees at the McDonald’s Impact Summit on Monday that they are “so damn lucky” he won the 2024 presidential election, arguing the economy would have been a "catastrophe" under former Vice President Kamala Harris.  “Welfare was going up. Everything was going up. Government jobs were going up, real jobs were going down,”...

The Memo: MAGA tensions are backdrop for Trump’s surprise Epstein U-turn

President Trump’s abrupt U-turn on the Epstein files looks like an effort to take the sting out of an imminent defeat on Capitol Hill. But the Epstein matter is just one of several issues that have caused discontent among Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) base in recent months, feeding questions about whether the president’s...

Trump DOJ’s James Comey case faces widening judicial backlash

The Justice Department’s prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey is facing death by a thousand procedural errors. Federal judges overseeing the criminal case have increasingly raised concerns about the department's efforts to investigate and indict the adversary of President Trump, from the evidence presented to grand jurors to the prosecutor who made the government’s case. ...

Trump proposes to narrow water regulations

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump proposes to narrow Clean Water Act protections The Trump administration is proposing to narrow which bodies of water qualify for Clean Water Act protections. © Adobe Stock The administration proposed a new definition for what counts as a “water of the United States”...

Medicare Part B premiums are rising. So are private health insurance costs. 

Presented by the American Association for Cancer Research — People are going to be paying more for health insurance next year. {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story  Medicare Part B premiums are rising. So are private health insurance costs.  Americans are going to be paying more for health insurance next year. As rising...

GOP clashes over phone records

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Republicans clash over phone records provision Republicans are at odds over an effort to unwind a provision tucked into the bill to reopen the government that would allow senators to sue if they aren’t notified when federal law enforcement seeks their phone records. © Greg Nash The provision...

NIH funding cuts have impacted over 74,000 people enrolled in trials: Report

More than 74,000 people have had their lives disrupted by Trump administration cuts to clinical trials supported by the National Institutes of Health, according to a new report released Monday.   From the end of February to August, the administration’s unprecedented broadside against NIH resulted in funding losses for 383 clinical trials, new research published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found. The cuts impacted trials disproportionately studying...

John Bolton: Trump ‘put the gun on the table’ with Maduro

Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that President Trump “put the gun on the table” with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro amid tensions between the two countries. “I mean, do you think these boat strikes are stopping the flow of drugs to the United States, for one, and do you think they are doing...

Watch live: Trump speaks at McDonald’s Impact Summit

President Trump is planning to deliver a speech focused on his efforts around affordability at the McDonald's Impact Summit Monday evening. The audience will include McDonald's owners, operators and suppliers gathered in Washington, D.C. It comes as Trump has said Republicans need to focus more on messaging their efforts to bring down the cost of...

What’s next for EVs after the expiration of the tax credit?

(TestMiles) - The future of electric vehicle adoption shifts now that the $7,500 tax credit is gone; affordable models, tech pivots, and new market dynamics emerge. Why does this matter right now? On September 30, 2025, the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles vanished. No fanfare, no final countdown. For the EV industry, this is...

Democrats predict Epstein controversy will hit Trump supporters hard

Democrats say the Jeffrey Epstein files are capturing the President Trump they have tried to portray for years, predicting the controversy will paint the darkest image of Trump to date. They have dug into the issue and see it as a crisis for Trump because it cuts a wedge between the president and his core supporters.  “The...

Abbott sets runoff for Sylvester Turner’s House seat for Jan. 31

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has scheduled the runoff election for the vacant House seat in the Lone Star State’s 18th Congressional District for Jan. 31. The seat has been vacant since March, when former Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas) passed away. Turner, the former mayor of Houston who was first elected to Congress in November...

Raskin says Democrats have ‘huge’ tent with room for Marjorie Taylor Greene

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the Democratic Party should welcome Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — a longtime MAGA supporter who’s grown increasingly critical of the GOP — should she choose to switch sides. Speaking at the 2025 "Blue Bash Brunch" Democratic fundraiser in Miami on Sunday, Raskin encouraged his party to be a big...

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