House Republicans launched an investigation Tuesday into how the U.S. Agency for Global Media vetted foreign nationals, including those from countries hostile to the U.S., and why senior agency officials awarded grants to entities with alleged conflicts of interest.
It appears that not only the FBI but the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden consulted the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center. Such trust placed in such a morally corrupt organization has had catastrophic downstream effects. Through internal documents, the Daily Signal reported that in 2023, officials representing the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division […]
A DECADE AGO, THE START OF THE TRUMP ERA. This time 10 years ago, much of the political commentariat, both Democratic and Republican, was having a grand old time making fun of Donald Trump. The real estate/marketing/TV star entered the GOP race for president on June 16, 2015 — you remember the famous coming-down-the-escalator scene. Watching […]
The Trump administration wants to open up more than 80 percent of a publicly owned area of the Western Arctic for oil and gas drilling. The Interior Department said late Tuesday afternoon that it is releasing a draft plan in support of opening up 82 percent of the area, known as the National Petroleum Reserve...
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first openly transgender member of Congress, says the Democratic Party must create space for disagreement on trans rights and welcome “imperfect allies” to the conversation to facilitate meaningful and lasting change. Since taking office in January, President Trump, who made policies and rhetoric targeting trans people a focus of his reelection...
The NAACP and an environmental group are planning to sue Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, amid concerns that its supercomputer facility is prompting air pollution in Memphis, the groups announced Tuesday. The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), on behalf of the NAACP, sent a letter to xAI and its affiliates on Tuesday notifying the...
The U.S. military is positioning itself to potentially join Israel's assault on Iran, as President Trump weighs direct action against Tehran to deal a permanent blow to its nuclear program. Trump on Tuesday urged residents of Tehran to flee and suggested he was weighing action against Iran, less than 12 hours after he had publicly...
The members of a key federal vaccine advisory panel who were unceremoniously dismissed earlier this month said the recent actions of the Trump administration have "critically weakened" the U.S. vaccine program, undermining decades of successful vaccine policy. In an opinion piece published in the JAMA medical journal, the former members of the Advisory Committee on...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) condemned the arrest of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander (D), a candidate for mayor, who was detained Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while guiding a defendant out of immigration court. “Do you want to know what I really think?” Hochul said to a reporter when...