Trump's political team holds closed-door strategy session focusing on economy as top midterm issue. White House aims to spotlight affordability efforts.
House Republicans proposed an energy regulation bill requiring a five-year sunset window. Rep. Craig Goldman's legislation would expire many Biden-era regulations within one year.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said it raised $8.6 million in the month of June, marking half of the Republican National Committee’s $16.2 million haul during the same period. The RNC has $80.78 million in the bank while the DNC has $15.22 million. Democrats note that the RNC had more transfers this cycle and touted...
The Trump administration's inability to clearly answer whether hiring a Holocaust denier as a faculty member highlights the dangers of the administration's "ideological litmus test" approach to viewpoint diversity in higher education.
On the day that marks a year since former President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, his son Hunter came out swinging in a new interview. Among the defenses of his father, he suggested the former president had been taking Ambien leading up to the June 2024 presidential debate and that the drug...
Hunter Biden went off on actor George Clooney and other high-profile Democrats in an expletive-filled response to their calls for his father, former President Biden, to drop out of the 2024 election. Appearing on YouTube personality Andrew Callagan’s web series “Channel 5,” Hunter Biden lashed out at Clooney and other members of the party who...
A federal judge on Monday questioned the true nature of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists during closing arguments of a bench trial over the controversial arrests. U.S. District Judge William Young, an appointee of former President Reagan, must determine whether the so-called “ideological deportation policy” exists, such that the administration singled out...
Hunter Biden in an interview published Monday suggested former President Biden had been taking Ambien leading up to the June 2024 presidential debate and that the drug was partly to blame for his poor performance in the debate. "I know exactly what happened in that debate," Hunter Biden told YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan. "He flew...
A woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sexually assaulting her says she told the FBI twice to look into President Trump, The New York Times reported Sunday. The woman, Maria Farmer, told the Times that she asked the FBI, along with the New York City Police Department, to broadly examine people in Epstein’s circles, including...
A letter released Monday from more than 150 NASA employees urged agency officials not to make deep budgetary cuts proposed by the White House, saying they would have “dire” consequences. “We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. These cuts...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized leakers in response to a Wall Street Journal story that said he personally sought to talk President Trump out of trying to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The president slammed the report on Sunday. Bessent was asked on CNBC on Monday if the Journal story was real and if...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Todd Lyons said agents can continue to use masks in the field, even as the agency has increasingly come under fire for moves that limit identification of its personnel. In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Lyons defended the practice despite some misgivings, citing rising threats against ICE...
President Trump’s special envoy for Syria on Monday criticized Israeli strikes against the country last week as poorly timed and complicating efforts to stabilize the region, in an interview with The Associated Press. Tom Barrack, U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, is engaged in ceasefire efforts to halt sectarian violence in Syria...
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated federal law by taking down a public website that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies, ordering its reinstatement. U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan ruled Monday that removal of the online database overseen by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) violated legislation passed by Congress,...
