VOA is a major bone of contention for many lawmakers – which reared its head once again when Agency for Global Media Special Advisor Kari Lake spoke before a House committee.
Fox News survey shows American pride rebounding to 58%, the highest in over a decade, despite persistent concerns about the future, inflation, and government spending among voters
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration -- and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem -- in an emotional video farewell on Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Canada bowed to White House demands and decided not to collect a tax on U.S. tech companies as planned Monday, a sign that President Trump's hardball tactics are paying off as he cajoles dozens of trading partners to strike deals or face stiff tariffs on goods they send to U.S. markets.
Law enforcement officers arrested a man linked to the fatal bombing at a Palm Springs fertility clinic on Tuesday at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport. Daniel Park was taken into custody after being extradited from Poland, where he fled to after the May attack, according to the Associated Press. Authorities say he’s spent years...
The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday said Russia must be ejected from Syria, warning that if Moscow maintains a presence in the country it will allow for Iran’s eventual reentry. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), speaking during a panel at the Hudson Institute, called for remaining Russian forces in Syria to...
The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee released text for its portion of the Trump legislative agenda policy bill that Republicans are trying to get across the finish line, becoming the first Senate panel to do so. The EPW bill appears similar to provisions passed by the House. It’s not one of the committees...
Elon Musk’s harsh criticism of the White House’s signature policy bill is laying bare the tensions between the world’s richest man and the administration where he worked over the last four months. Privately, Musk rubbed a number of senior officials the wrong way during his time in government, and his complaints about a key legislative...
The Trump administration pulled the most devastating lever against Columbia University on Wednesday when it announced it was targeting the school’s accreditation. A typically mundane aspect of higher education but with the ability to destroy a university, the college accreditation process gives a school the ability to qualify for federal student loans and Pell...
Massive clouds of Sahara Desert dust are moving over the Atlantic toward Central and North America, with the possibility of reaching Florida and other states, including Texas, this week. The dust has covered parts of the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Haiti, and is projected to reach states along the Gulf Coast, like...
A federal judge in Colorado has blocked the deportation of the family of the suspect in the Boulder, Colo., attack. The order came just as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced it was preparing to deport Mohamed Soliman's wife and five children. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the...
Plus: Russia prepares to retaliate after Ukraine attacks {beacon} REPUBLICAN LEADERS are working to quash a revolt over debt in President Trump’s agenda bill amid fierce criticism from Elon Musk and new projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The nonpartisan CBO said Wednesday that Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would add $2.4 trillion to...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is planning to reintroduce a bill that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group after the Boulder, Colo., attack perpetrated by Mohamed Soliman. Soliman, an Egyptian citizen, has publicly supported the group on his social media accounts, according to reports from CNN. Cruz said Tuesday that he would craft...
Elon Musk on Wednesday called for a new spending bill to be drafted after he threw a wrench into GOP leadership’s plans to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” by July Fourth. “A new spending bill should be drafted that doesn’t massively grow the deficit and increase the debt ceiling by 5 TRILLION DOLLARS,” Musk...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is pressuring Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney to ramp up tariffs against the United States after President Trump doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum earlier this week. “I highly recommended to the prime minister directly that we slap another 25 percent on top of our tariffs to equal President Trump's tariffs...
A Wisconsin inmate is facing charges over allegations he forged threatening letters against President Trump in an effort to frame a potential witness in an upcoming criminal trial and get him deported before he could testify. Demetric Deshawn Scott was charged on Monday with identity theft, bail jumping and felony intimidation of a witness, according...
The BBC rejected White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claims that the news outlet took “the word of Hamas” when reporting on casualties in Gaza. During Tuesday's press briefing, Leavitt claimed the BBC retracted a story that featured statistics on deaths caused by Israeli forces in a story. “The claim the BBC took down a story after...
