LA is fading as a destination for real estate investors from abroad. Once a prime choice for international buyers, LA has been declining for six years. It attracts less...
Multiple hosts on ABC’s “The View” slammed Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for his litany of controversies, after reports surfaced over the weekend that he sent sexually explicit messages to women after he married his wife. Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House director of strategic communications during President Trump’s first term, listed...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday indicated that he is willing to take a federal appeals court decision restricting his transgender military ban to the Supreme Court. Earlier in the day, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled that the Trump administration, under a policy implemented by Hegseth last year, is unconstitutionally expelling troops actively...
Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) on Monday introduced legislation to block the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) scrapped earlier in the day. The bill, dubbed the Drain the Slush Fund Act, would bar the use of taxpayer money for payments to President Trump,...
Three major artificial intelligence firms have agreed to share their models with the federal government to be tested ahead of deployment, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced Tuesday. As part of the agreements, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI will give their models to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) for...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday reversed course on his push to deploy troops to take control of Kharg Island, which handles roughly 90 percent of Iran’s crude oil exports. “I’m not a real advocate of taking Kharg Island. I think we oughta tell the Iranians we will destroy it from the air,” Graham said...
Two people were killed Monday in the latest targeted strike on a vessel traveling on a “known narco-trafficking” route in the Caribbean Sea, according to U.S. Southern Command (Southcom). The deaths mark the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s military campaign to crack down on alleged drug-trafficking boats. The U.S. military has killed at least...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Tuesday morning that the U.S.-Iran ceasefire is holding, even as both sides have fired at one another in the last day. Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine at a press briefing detailed "Project Freedom," aimed at allowing some commerce to transit through the Strait of...
The California Department of Insurance is seeking millions of dollars in fines from State Farm for its handling of L.A. wildfire claims — the department's largest penalty pursued after a disaster this century.
Iran is accusing the U.S. of violating the fragile ceasefire agreement between the two countries after President Trump directed the U.S. Navy to ensure the safe passage of commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. “The new equation of the Strait of Hormuz is in the process of being solidified,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher...
A political right that was optimistic and largely unified in the early months of President Trump’s second term is more divided, fractured and anxious — with the future of the post-Trump Republican Party at stake. Today marks one year here for The Movement, where I cover the influences and debates steering politics on the right in Washington. The...
Indiana determined two decades ago to turn around its poor financial position. It now holds a AAA credit rating and has passed the gold standard for balanced budget amendments.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine will brief reporters Tuesday morning on the Iran war — as tensions escalate in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening the already-fragile ceasefire. The conflict hit the 60-day mark last week, though the Trump administration has argued the temporary truce stopped the clock...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) may have skipped the Met Gala, but he still highlighted six fashion industry workers on Monday. “The fashion industry is made possible by the thousands of workers behind the scenes — seamstresses, tailors, retail workers, delivery drivers—whose immense talent and dedication deserves to be celebrated,” Mamdani told culture...
The Education Department on Monday opened a Title IX investigation into Smith College, a private all-women’s school, for admitting transgender women. In a release, the Education Department wrote that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is opening an investigation into the Massachusetts college for admitting transgender women and “granting them access to women-only spaces, including...
