The Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the president ahead of the midterms that the White House maintains are "public service announcements."
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott said he would halt construction activity in Big Bend National Park as efforts to erect a border barrier have met bipartisan pushback. In a video posted to social media on Monday, Scott said, “Last night I put a pause on all activity in that park as far as...
Democrats have a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism, according to a new poll. In the CBS News/YouGov poll, socialism was seen in a “very positive” or “somewhat positive” light by 58 percent of Democratic respondents, with 18 percent of the same group seeing the ideology in a “somewhat negative” or “very negative” light....
GOP Rep. Don Bacon (Neb.) said Sunday he was “concerned” about President Trump saying he is not aware of the Pentagon’s missile shortage. “I do have concerns that the president said he was not aware that we had a shortage of weapons like cruise missiles and Patriots. That's not a good … thing,” Bacon told...
President Trump's executive order recommending that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine be split up across three appointments is drawing poor reception from the pharmaceutical industry as drugmakers and trade groups say there's no scientific reasoning to follow the directive. The administration did not provide any new scientific data to support splitting up the...
The water level at Lake Powell on the Colorado River, the second-largest reservoir in the country, has dipped to a record low. The lake’s elevation was 3,519.80 feet as of Sunday, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). The Associated Press reported Sunday that Lake Powell’s water level on Saturday surpassed its...
South Korea is hoping to engage in talks with the Trump administration following the president's announcement Sunday that he is ordering a reduction in U.S. troop participation in joint military exercises with soldiers in Seoul. South Korea's presidential Blue House said it “hopes that the friendly relationship between the U.S. and North Korean leaders will...
Retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton on Sunday suggested President Trump made “an unforced error” in ordering the Pentagon to scale back its joint exercises with the South Korean military. Leighton said the change “could have some serious impacts” on America’s relationship with South Korea, as well as Japan. “South Korea is a critical ally...
Marine veteran Joslin Joseph criticizes the leadership of President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for prioritizing mission goals over troop welfare during an ongoing conflict with Iran.
President Trump seems temperamentally incapable of recognizing the scope of his loss in the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of birthright citizenship. Rather than accept the court's definitive ruling that "the Constitution guarantees citizenship to children born of parents unlawfully or temporarily present in the United States," he recently released a new executive order purporting to deny...
Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Trump administration may look to the Supreme Court for help in a fight over state voter rolls. “Absolutely it's a possibility. Election integrity is something that President Trump ran on. And the American people elected him,” Blanche told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” in a Sunday...
