Ken Paxton unveils a four-point plan targeting data centers in the Lone Star State as he and James Talarico trade blows over rising power and water costs.
Jared Kushner’s recent meeting with Hamas is a mistake. The Trump administration risks granting legitimacy to a terrorist group responsible for the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. It could upend the prospects for a peaceful future for Gazans and Israelis alike. On August 16, Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and frequent […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) announced Friday he is backing GOP Rep. Ralph Norman (S.C.) in the race to serve a full term in the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) seat. Sanford, who generally refrains from offering political endorsements, said in a statement shared on social media that he felt “compelled to offer”...
The federal government has unveiled its short-term plans for Colorado River water cuts from California, Arizona and Nevada — issuing a plan that’s largely in line with what the states themselves have proposed and sparing them from more dramatic cuts for the time being. The Interior Department announced Friday that it would require these states,...
President Trump has demanded a liberal think tank retract a critical report on his National Guard deployments by Friday evening, threatening to file a $5 billion defamation suit if it doesn’t. In a nine-page letter sent Monday by Trump’s personal attorney, which was reviewed by The Hill, he claimed the Center for American Progress (CAP) “manufactured”...
Vice President Vance is heading back to his Ohio hometown Friday afternoon, as he looks to sell President Trump’s economic agenda to voters ahead of the November midterms. Vance will deliver remarks at Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works, a steel plant where his grandfather worked for nearly four decades. He is expected to tout the administration’s efforts...
😎 Plus: South Carolina gets a dose of Trump {beacon} It’s Friday. Against all odds and several hundred emails, we’ve made it. In today's issue: Beef tariffs get a timeout Bessent weighs America’s debt Trump goes all in for Graham IndyCar zooms into DC Programming note: Hello! We are Colin Meyn and Steff...
I don't think the lesson here is that Jill Biden should never talk about her husband's presidency. She absolutely has a right to tell her story. But you cannot rewrite history, no matter how many times you try.
The Pentagon said more than 750 U.S. service members have been wounded since the war against Iran began in late February. The department updated its war casualty database this week with another 50 injured service members. When totals from the Operation Epic Fury rubric are combined with updated figures in the “Overseas Operations” category, the...
Two Republicans pushed back on the Trump administration’s Friday decision to temporarily lift certain tariffs on imported ground beef in an effort to bring down prices for American consumers ahead of the midterm elections. President Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Friday morning that he had finalized “a deal to substantially lower the...
Grindr CEO George Arison and Sen. John Hickenlooper called for federal and state reforms to make fertility care and family formation more accessible and affordable for all Americans.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday carried out its first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration terminated deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians earlier this year. The plane, which carried more than 160 people, arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien, The Associated Press reported. The U.S. has a...
President Trump announced Friday that the U.S. will pause higher tariffs on ground beef imports for 90 days to lower costs of the meat for consumers. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said the U.S. will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported without an “out-of-quota tariff," or the...
So far, the president has insisted that the Navy go back to using steam, decreed that the Strait of Hormuz will be a U.S. territory, and demanded that new aircraft carriers be redesigned to make them look “better.”
President Trump is set to hit the campaign trail on Friday in an attempt to give Republican Sen. Darline Graham (S.C.) one last boost before the special GOP primary runoff on Tuesday. Graham, a political newcomer who replaced her late brother Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), is going up against Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) for the...
