The Department of Agriculture has announced plans to close its mammoth headquarters in Washington, lay off thousands of its nearly 100,000 employees, and relocate offices and many remaining workers to hubs across the country. The decision follows President Donald Trump’s executive order to transform “the Federal bureaucracy” by eliminating “waste, bloat, and insularity.” This should come […]
California is home to high taxes, billion-dollar boondoggles, and a liberal agenda. Clearly, the folks there shouldn’t be calling the shots on anything, let alone our farms. Iowa’s dedicated producers rise before the rooster crows and toil in the fields long after dark to keep our great state No. 1 in corn, eggs, ethanol, and, of […]
President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs came under their first major legal challenge Monday, brought by a libertarian public-interest firm that argues the president overstepped his authority. Trump’s April 2 announcement imposed a baseline 10 percent tariff on imports and targeted dozens of countries with higher “reciprocal” tariffs. The announcement has rattled stock and bond markets,...
Tesla's testing of its Full Self-Driving technology in China has been halted due to regulatory issues, while Arizona's forward-thinking approach to autonomous vehicle regulation has made it a hub for innovation, offering a more stable and transparent regulatory environment than China.
Harvard University on Monday rejected demands from the Trump administration as it threatens the school's federal funding as part of a broader clampdown on higher education. In a message to the Harvard community from its leadership — and in a corresponding letter from the school's attorneys to the federal government — the university said that...
Jared Bernstein, the chief White House economist in the Biden administration, said he would advise President Trump to “declare victory” in the trade war and let the economy recover from the period of uncertainty. “My advice to the president would be to go out there and declare victory — because that's what he does,” Bernstein...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Monday, as his social media company faces off against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a case that could determine the fate of the tech titan’s empire. The FTC called Zuckerberg as its first witness, as it seeks to show that Meta acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to further...
White House aide Stephen Miller contradicted a number of statements the Trump administration has made in court, claiming a Maryland man was not deported to a Salvadoran prison in error. Miller’s comment came after the Justice Department said Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident, was deported due to an “administrative error,” as...
A Trump administration official said that an American missionary was released Sunday after 13 months of detainment in Tunisia, Reuters reported. Adam Boehler, a U.S. special envoy, said that Robert Vieira’s release was secured Sunday, according to Reuters. Amid missionary work 13 months ago in Tunisia, Vieira was apprehended, and Tunisian authorities suspected he was...