NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani listed himself as Black on a Columbia application but later said he wasn’t, according to reporting from the New York Times.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is calling out the hypocrisy of progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who said the agency is "acting like a terrorist force."
President Donald Trump said his "big beautiful bill" will turn the U.S. into "a rocket ship" after Congress passed what he called the biggest bill of its kind ever signed.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in an interview Friday brushed off Elon Musk’s campaign spending threats in light of the tech billionaire's public fallout with President Trump, suggesting he isn't worried. The spat between Trump and Musk began with the latter's criticism of the president's legislative agenda making its way through Congress. Johnson said he...
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, may have made himself an enemy of the world’s most powerful leader. The public blowout between Musk and President Trump is threatening the tech billionaire’s businesses, some of which have billions of dollars' worth of federal contracts. Musk's aerospace company SpaceX alone reportedly has at least $22 billion in...
President Trump and Elon Musk let an uneasy truce mostly take hold Friday, a day after their previous alliance imploded in spectacular fashion. On Thursday, Musk cast innuendo on Trump’s decades-old association with deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, implying that the “Epstein files” had not been released because they contained incriminating information about the president. Musk...
Religious rights are sparking both unanimity and deep divisions on the Supreme Court this term, with one major decision still to come. On Thursday, all nine justices sided with Catholic Charities Bureau in its tax fight with Wisconsin. But weeks earlier, the court’s 4-4 deadlock handed those same religious interests a loss by refusing to...
Elon Musk has been feuding with President Trump over a bill the president is championing that, among other things, cuts incentives for electric vehicles and solar energy that benefit Musk’s company Tesla. Trump said Musk’s vocal opposition to Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” is based on its elimination of incentives for electric vehicles (EVs). “Elon knew...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) faces a test of her political influence after endorsing a progressive candidate in the New York City mayoral race. Ocasio-Cortez backed New York state Assembly member Zohran Mamdani on Thursday, pitching him as the best chance to upset former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the front-runner since before he entered the...
Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-Fla.) said President Trump and Elon Musk’s feud wouldn’t last for long, noting that the Republican Party and the president's allies are all a part of “one big family.” Musk in recent days has criticized the president’s budget bill over its effects on the national debt, which the tech billionaire says “undermines”...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) celebrated the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported and detained in El Salvador’s CECOT prison, calling it "a victory" for the rule of law. The Trump administration doubled down on the deportation, accusing Abrego Garcia, who illegally immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador...
Elon Musk floated a new political party on Friday after falling out with President Trump over the big, beautiful bill. He launched a Thursday poll on the social platform X, which he owns, asking about whether or not the country needed a new faction for political nominees. “The people have spoken. A new political party...
Citadel founder Ken Griffin knocked the Trump administration for a series of moves he said would undoubtedly cause stagflation. Griffin, who’s notably criticized the president’s trade policies, slammed the White House for promoting tax reductions amidst a fiscal deficit. “It would be a textbook stagflation scenario. The question is, is it for several quarters, or...
