President Trump insisted that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and close Trump adviser Elon Musk have a "great relationship" following an explosive report that the two clashed during a contentious Cabinet meeting on Thursday. The secretary of state and tech billionaire reportedly got into a heated argument about workforce cuts, with Musk telling Rubio that...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using polygraph tests to figure out who could be leaking information to news outlets, with some agency officials contending the disclosed information has hampered immigration enforcement efforts, multiple outlets reported. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ordered in an internal directive, first reported by Bloomberg Government last month, that every...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected President Trump’s push for nuclear deal talks between the two nations, arguing the initiative is only a gateway for Washington to impose new demands and limit Tehran’s military capabilities. “Some coercive governments insist on negotiations. Such negotiations aren’t aimed at solving issues. Their aim is to exert their...
Virtual abortion clinics aren’t just an alternative. They are often the only realistic option for patients who can’t take a day off work or drive hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic.
British comedian and political commentator John Oliver said he won’t be heading home to the United Kingdom under President Trump’s second term, opting instead to go "down with the Titanic." He appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Monday evening, where the pair talked about Oliver's decision to become a U.S. citizen in...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) agreed with Fox News host Jesse Watters, who argued this week the Democratic media messaging machine is no match for its counterpart on the right. "We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign against the left," Watters said on an episode of "The Five" this week. "And they're using tactics...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressed Vice President Vance over the precepts of free speech, citing threats from the Trump administration as an example of its impediment. “@JDVance, you lied to the world in Munich. If this administration believed in free speech as you claimed, its leaders wouldn’t be threatening members of Congress with criminal investigations...
The top criminal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday, following a reported directive to launch an investigation into Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding approved under the Biden administration. According to media reports, Cheung said the probe was premature in a letter to the interim U.S. Attorney...
Donald Trump has eroded the idea of truth, focusing on creating stories that serve his political base rather than actual facts, threatening the future of democracy.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1970s of murdering two FBI agents, was released from prison Tuesday after then-President Biden commuted his sentence in the final hours of his presidency. Peltier was released Tuesday morning from Florida’s maximum-security Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, where he has been incarcerated since 2014. “I am...
Rep. Vern Buchanan and Dr. Mark Hyman are advocating for a "Food as Medicine" movement to prevent chronic diseases and save health care costs, while HHS Secretary Kennedy supports this initiative.
New Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said Tuesday that union workers and labor leaders will be “core to my decision-making.” “As Trump wages his war on working families, Democrats will fiercely answer the call to my favorite old union song, ‘Which Side Are You On?’ I’ll tell you what: Democrats are on the...
New York Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand wrote a Monday letter to newly minted Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., urging him to reverse recent cuts to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) that impact a program for 9/11 first responders. “To say funding for 9/11 first responders is...
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a former prominent Trump fundraiser who was appointed during the president's first term, announced Tuesday he would be stepping down. In a release, the U.S. Postal Service said DeJoy had notified its Board of Directors that it was “time for them to begin the process of identifying his successor.” “While there...
The minor benefits of UNESCO membership are outweighed by the consequences of U.S. support for an organization that wrongly grants full membership to the Palestinians without recognition of Israel.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, claimed Tuesday that its newest model outperforms similar products from competitors like OpenAI and DeepSeek. Musk's company unveiled Grok3, the latest generation of its Grok AI model and the first to feature reasoning capabilities, during a launch event Tuesday on X Spaces. Musk's xAI team said Grok3 has...
