President Trump has given buyouts or tried to terminate employment of more than 11,000 people at the IRS, with a disproportionate share of those coming from the agency's ranks of auditors, an inspector general said Monday.
While football fans might see the Cleveland Browns as a charity case, the team is actually a for-profit enterprise. Since Dee and Jimmy Haslam bought the team in August 2012, the franchise has increased in value fivefold from less than $1 billion to more than $5 billion, outpacing the stock market by about 50%. The Browns’ product, […]
Washington state Democrats are singling out religious leaders in a law they claim is upholding the separation between church and state. In reality, it is the imposition of the state on the church, singling out religion as the focus of the law. The new law that has been signed by Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson adds […]
By now, we’ve all surely witnessed the unwanted side effects of excessive screen time in children. Generation Z, born in roughly 1995-2012, grew up enmeshed in online culture. Their successors in Generation Alpha essentially exited the womb with a tablet computer in their hands. Last week, the Texas House of Representatives passed House Bill 186, which […]
Senate Democrats are raising the alarm over the proposed change to the definition of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). A group, including Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) wrote a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to express concern over the Trump administration’s proposed rule that would loosen federal...
🔵 Plus: Dems debate impeachment, future leaders {beacon} PRESIDENT TRUMP ON MONDAY drew new battle lines on trade, immigration and crime as he outlined a series of surprising new proposals that resonated from Washington to Hollywood and provoked fresh debate about his powers. Over a head-spinning 48 hours, Trump said he’d reopen Alcatraz, slap...
President Trump on Monday met in the Oval Office with an American ballerina who was released from a Russian prison earlier this year as part of an exchange. Trump spoke with Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russian dual national who was detained last year on treason charges. The White House posted footage of the meeting, which was...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a Politico Magazine article published Monday that the king of Jordan “cut us off” regarding a pledge to take in 2,000 sick Palestinian children. Two months ago, King Abdullah II of Jordan pledged to take in 2,000 sick Palestinian children from Gaza, but Kennedy...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that fellow New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) would be a potent candidate to lead the Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Jeffries stopped short of endorsing Ocasio-Cortez for the seat, saying there would be a number of highly qualified Democrats who would seek...
President Trump’s idea to reopen Alcatraz as a functioning prison is a reflection of his political instincts and personal tastes, even as it is a long shot to come to fruition. Alcatraz, the island located off the coast of San Francisco, was closed as a prison in 1963 and has since been turned into a...