The release by Democrats of their party’s so-called autopsy on the 2024 election is deservedly getting trashed for being late, superficial and scattershot.
A person who opened fire Saturday on a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the U.S. Secret Service said. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Trump in the past month.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sparred with one of President Trump’s outside advisers on social media Saturday after indicating he was “deeply concerned” about the terms of an emerging deal between the U.S. and Iran. “I am deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran ‘deal,’ being pushed by some voices in the administration,”...
College advising programs are being defunded, threatening to undermine a cost-effective economic strategy that provides essential guidance to students and drives economic progress in communities, while also providing valuable professional development for recent college graduates.
Senate Democrats on Thursday criticized President Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, arguing his platforming of a convicted Belgium Holocaust denier made him unfit for the role. The Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced White’s nomination on Wednesday, part of an effort to move forward more than two dozen of Trump’s ambassador and...
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court Thursday to put the president’s firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud accusations into effect. Cook participated in this week’s key vote cutting interest rates after a divided appeals panel rejected the administration’s plea to intervene beforehand. The administration waited for the Fed’s meeting to conclude before going...
The Supreme Court will consider whether President Trump can use emergency powers to justify his sweeping tariffs worldwide on Nov. 5, the court announced Thursday. The official scheduling of the oral arguments comes a week after the justices agreed to hear the Trump administration's appeal and fast-track the cases, which have broad implications for the...
The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Donald Trump, makes significant and permanent reforms to the federal tax code and government spending, resulting in tax savings for American families, strengthened Medicaid, increased border security, and reduced federal spending.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to send unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country, writing that the government’s insistence that it came at parents’ request “crumbled like a house of cards.” Immigration lawyers raced to court in the middle of the night as the administration took steps to swiftly send...
President Trump on Thursday claimed late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel had his show taken off the air "because he had bad ratings," shrugging off a question about whether it was an attack on free speech. A reporter with ITV in the United Kingdom asked Trump during a joint press conference with British Prime...
Former President Obama condemned President Trump’s comments Thursday celebrating the removal of Jimmy Kimmel’s show from various networks after the comedian joked about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against...
House Democratic leaders called for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr to resign Thursday after ABC announced it would stop airing “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” due to the host’s remarks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. ABC’s decision to pull Kimmel’s show came shortly after Carr threatened during a podcast interview to revoke...
Starbucks workers took legal action against their employer on Wednesday, accusing the company of breaking the law by implementing a new dress code but allegedly refusing to reimburse employees for the associated expenses. Class-action lawsuits were filed in Illinois and Colorado on Wednesday. Workers also filed complaints with California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency, saying...
President Trump said Thursday that the recognition of a Palestinian state was a rare area of disagreement between him and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a joint press conference with the two leaders. Trump was asked about Starmer's impending recognition of a Palestinian state and what more he could say to Israel to stop...
Will artificial intelligence destroy undergraduate business education? As business school economists, we see the anxiety firsthand. If AI can prepare a balance sheet, price assets, and develop personnel plans more efficiently than twenty-something degree holders, it’s natural to worry whether demand for those degrees will persist. Recent labor-market developments seem to bear this out. Tasks...
Former Vice President Harris revealed in her upcoming book that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was her “first choice” for a running mate in her 2024 presidential run, but that he would have proved "too risky." The Atlantic reported on an excerpt of her book "107 Days" on Wednesday, which detailed Harris's assessment that “would...
First lady Melania Trump and Kate, Princess of Wales, visited with young children in the Squirrel Scouts program for a solo outing together. The two women went to Frogmore Gardens, an estate just south of Windsor Castle, where they were welcomed by television personality and Scout Association chief scout Dwayne Fields. Trump and the princess...
