The U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Thursday released financial disclosure forms showing that President Trump disclosed at least $220 million in financial transactions in the securities of major U.S. companies earlier this year. The reports show a cumulative value of between $220 million and around $750 million, with purchases including securities linked to companies...
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday called on the Trump administration to not extend a waiver on sanctions for anyone who purchases oil from Russia, which is set to expire just after midnight on Saturday. “Tonight, when the current license for Russian oil expires, it should not be renewed," Shaheen, the...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) signaled victory in his war against Medicaid reform this week, posting on social media, “Just had a great talk with President Trump about the Big, Beautiful Bill. He said again, NO MEDICAID BENEFIT CUTS.” Hawley’s crusade against “taking healthcare away from working families to give tax breaks to the ultra-rich” is […]
Protesters at “an event at Princeton featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett” called Jewish students “‘inbred swine,’ among other slurs” as they disrupted...
President Donald Trump prostrated himself before Vladimir Putin following a threat by Russia‘s leader to commit new war crimes in Ukraine. Trump’s relevant post followed his call with Putin on Wednesday. Noting that the two leaders had discussed Trump’s effort to secure a new nuclear agreement with Iran, Trump added that “we discussed the attack […]
California is still wrestling with its affordability crisis and has a gas price catastrophe hanging over the state’s future. California Democrats, meanwhile, are focused on letting murderers out of jail early. The California State Senate voted 24-11 to pass the “Youth Rehabilitation and Opportunity Act.” That whitewashed title is for a bill that would allow […]
President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Tuesday to criticize Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for being reluctant to support the much-ballyhooed “big, beautiful bill.” The rebuke stems from the senator’s hesitation to vote for the bill over concerns that it will have significant negative ramifications regarding the country’s national debt. When Trump […]
A teenage competitor who has transitioned from male to female was able to compete in a California state championship as a girl, against girls, over the weekend. The California Interscholastic Federation rule changes last week made it so that the young woman who would have otherwise won first place shared the podium with the transgender […]
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France‘s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’s election last month. And maybe in Poland and South […]
