New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) asked Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on the “ultra-wealthy,” citing a "significant chasm" in the city's $5.4 billion deficit. During a preliminary budget proposal announcement on Tuesday, Mamdani laid out two different “paths” the city could take to address the deficit concerns. The first and “most sustainable and...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said on Tuesday that he would “rather eat glass” than replace gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar’s (D-Minn.) in her U.S. Senate seat if she is elected. The lighthearted moment occurred when the governor took a question on the way to the podium at a press conference on Tuesday. “The context was...
President Trump on Tuesday announced that his administration had reached an agreement with Japan on trade, which would see the U.S. impose a 15 percent tariff on Japanese goods. Trump posted on Truth Social that Japan would invest $550 billion in projects in the United States, though he did not specify what those investments would...
Transgender women athletes will now face exclusion from U.S. Olympic and Paralympic activities, according to new policy from the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). "In our world of elite sport, these elements of fairness demand that we reconcile athlete inclusion and athlete opportunity," reads a statement on the USOPC website. "The only way...
Maryland state House Majority Leader David Moon (D) called out redistricting “cheats” on Tuesday and pledged to redraw the state’s district lines if others are allowed to do so outside of the traditional census period. “I'm introducing legislation to redraw Maryland congressional districts if any other state cheats & draws new maps outside of the...
Top Justice Department officials on Tuesday announced that a deputy to Alina Habba, President Trump's pick for New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, has been "removed" after federal judges declined to extend Habba's interim role. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that Desiree Leigh Grace, Habba's first assistant who was tapped by the U.S. District Court for...
Senate Democrats on Tuesday cautiously agreed to advance bipartisan legislation funding military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), less than a week after Republicans rammed through a partisan bill to defund PBS, NPR and global aid programs. Thirty-eight Democrats voted for a motion to proceed to the bill after holding a long lunchtime...
President Trump and his allies are desperate to move past the Jeffrey Epstein controversy — but their own words and actions are having the opposite effect. Trump’s decision to sue The Wall Street Journal over an Epstein-related story, his administration’s choice to bar the Journal from the group of reporters who will cover the president’s upcoming trip...
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary on Monday downplayed emotions surrounding files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The reason why people care about this a lot, not just because of the very real Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking and the crimes that were committed, it is the fact that Donald Trump himself spent years —...
The Pentagon has issued new rules that would prevent people currently treated for schizophrenia, congestive heart failure, having a donated organ or some other issues from receiving a medical waiver to serve in the military, according to a new memo revealed Tuesday. The guidance, signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and dated July 11, updates the list...
Ozzy Osbourne, a British rocker, had a complex relationship with American politics, having been a featured guest at the White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2002, being an outspoken anti-war activist, and criticizing the Brexit movement in his home country.
Democrats are showing they’re ready to get dirty and hit President Trump where it hurts by stoking the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s severed his MAGA movement. The strategy strays from the official line coming from top Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), who say they want their midterm campaign message to center...
