President Donald Trump is preparing to issue a new travel and visa ban for citizens of countries whom he deems a security risk or who have a history of illegally remaining in the United States. During his first term, Trump issued several executive orders that banned entry for citizens of 15 countries. While many in […]
When folks think about the Coast Guard, they usually picture a rescue swimmer jumping from a helicopter — something straight out of The Guardian. But the real picture is far bigger and far more urgent. The Coast Guard might be one of the smallest branches of our military, but it carries a heavyweight mission. Coast […]
As the chief executive of a company that has been at the wrong end of TikTok’s unfair business practices, including being banned as an advertiser from the platform, I have much to gain by keeping TikTok operational — the hugely popular platform can continue to entertain 170 million U.S. users, 60% of them Generation Z […]
After months of uncertainty, “Liberation Day” finally arrived. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump gathered the people he loves most, his inner circle and the legacy media, to announce his big and not-so-beautiful tariff strategy, lauding it as a “declaration of economic independence.” Using national emergency powers — because the word “emergency” is the executive branch’s […]
The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi has “directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty” in the case against Luigi Mangione. He is charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 in New York City. Thompson, a father of two, was fatally shot in the back in a crime […]
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday that the size and potential economic harm of President Trump's new tariffs were far larger than anticipated, raising new challenges as the bank attempts to end its inflation fight. In a Friday speech to a business journalism conference, Powell warned that the scope and scale of Trump's new...
Democratic attorneys general in 16 states led by New York and Massachusetts sued the Trump administration Friday over the cancellation of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants for medical research. In March, NIH began to terminate millions of dollars in grant funding for previously approved research projects, including projects focused on diversity,...
President Trump urged the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and ripped the head of the independent central bank as new tariffs caused stocks to plunge. In a Friday post on his Truth Social messaging platform, Trump accused Fed Chair Jerome Powell — a fellow Republican — of refusing to cut interest rates for political...
Ezra Levin, an activist who has organized demonstrations protesting President Trump and his close ally billionaire Elon Musk, praised Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) for breaking the record for the longest speech in Senate history and knocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), arguing the longtime Democrat is not delivering for constituents. Levin co-founded the progressive organization Indivisible,...