Are you better off than you were a year ago? President Donald Trump sure is. And so are his sons and cronies. The New York Times estimates that Trump has made $1.4 billion in the past year, leveraging his name and power to extract payments from foreign governments, major tech companies, and ridiculous cryptocurrency deals. […]

It's about to be very cold in parts of the U.S.

Michael Fanone, a former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Ivan Raiklin, a conservative activist and conspiracy theorist who frequently appears on Capitol Hill to protest the outcome of the 2020 election, got into an altercation Thursday at a hearing featuring former special counsel Jack Smith. Video of...

A Gallup poll shows a record-high 45 percent of U.S. adults identified as political independents in 2025 — nearly half the country. That’s not apathy, that’s disillusionment.

Several key U.S. allies were notably not present at President Trump’s “Board of Peace” charter-signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.  The international organization, which will be headed by Trump, aims to promote cooperation around the globe and carry out the Trump administration’s 20-point Gaza peace plan. Trump sent invitations to leaders of a wide...

The House Ways and Means Committee will hear testimony Thursday afternoon from a group of health insurance CEOs as premiums skyrocket following the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies. Among the list of witnesses are UnitedHealth Group’s Stephen Hemsley, CVS Health's David Joyner, Elevance Health's Gail Boudreaux, Cigna Group’s David Cordani, Ascendiun's Paul Markovich, and...

Blue Origin sent six more people to the edge of space on its New Shepard rocket on Thursday morning.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) filed to form a gubernatorial committee Thursday, putting her one step closer toward a run for Minnesota governor.  Klobuchar filed paperwork with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board for a gubernatorial committee. A spokesperson for Klobuchar’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Klobuchar is widely expected to...

This is where the discourse is at surrounding Epstein: Anyone who has met him even once can be smeared as “very involved” in a sex trafficking ring on CNN.  

Jack Smith stood behind his decisions in his special counsel investigation into Trump, but Republicans blasted his actions as overly aggressive and hostile.