Key Democrats said Wednesday they want to protect Social Security in the short term by reversing Trump administration cuts to the agency and in the long term by raising taxes on the wealthy to pay for an expansion of benefits.
Texas Democrats said Wednesday they will "issue demands" for a planned second special session as they consider whether to return to Austin when the current special session adjourns Friday.
This week, during a “Great American Farmers Market,” United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signed waivers allowing six states — West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas — to restrict the use of SNAP benefits for soda and candy. These join six others — Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho, and Utah — that […]
Whatever you may think of President Donald Trump, you can’t deny he has a flair for theatrics. This skill has been on full display since Sunday evening when he announced he would “take federal control” of Washington, D.C., in response to the beating of one of his former staff members at the hands of youths. […]
Following the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan and a summer wave of new models — Grok 4, an updated Claude, and OpenAI’s open-source and agent variants — the AI community’s anticipation for the ChatGPT-5 livestream was unmistakable, if tinged with its usual overhype. After a series of models (GPT 4.5, reasoning o1 and o3) failed […]
Donald Trump should ignore the well-funded cannabis lobby: What matters is that more and cheaper marijuana will mean nothing good for ordinary Americans.
JUDGE ON MAXWELL-EPSTEIN GRAND JURY: ‘THERE IS NO “THERE” THERE.’ Last month, the FBI announced that its “exhaustive review” of materials in the Jeffrey Epstein case uncovered no client list, no “credible evidence” that Epstein blackmailed any famous people, no evidence to support any new criminal charges, and no evidence that Epstein’s death was anything other […]
