President Trump's firing spree of independent agency leaders is running into a 90-year-old Supreme Court case that judges have used to block many of those ousters.
Los Angeles’s incompetent leadership turned the city into a ticking time bomb for massive fire damage. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the Los Angeles Fire Department had a budget of around $837 million. Los Angeles spent more money on homelessness — around $961 million. LAFD is also forced to spend its own resources and money […]
At a 1976 movie premiere in Mexico City, Mario Vargas Llosa famously punched his soon-to-be ex-friend, novelist Gabriel García Márquez, in the face. Some theorize the ruckus was about Vargas Llosa’s wife. Others believe it was a row over politics, as Vargas Llosa would soon refer to García Márquez as “Castro’s courtesan.” I like to think the latter happened. […]
CHARLEROI — For 132 years, the sound of the factory air whistle signaling the start of the work day at the plant along 8th and McKean Avenue in this Washington County borough meant all the things we associate with work: men and women had jobs, families had food on their table, the societal fabric was […]
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for comments he made Wednesday about autism. In a Wednesday press conference on a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kennedy said that “autism destroys families.” “More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which [is] our children,”...
Congress has passed a budget resolution that includes extending expiring tax cuts for middle- and upper-income taxpayers, border security funding, and reducing the deficit by $1.5 trillion over ten years, but the Senate's budget resolution has been criticized for not complying with the president's deficit reduction promises.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has stated that the country is facing a "crisis across the board" due to President Trump's policies, calling it an assault on the democratic way of life, the economy, Social Security, healthcare, and democracy.
The Supreme Court scheduled a rare May oral argument on the Trump administration’s emergency request to narrow a series of nationwide blocks on President Trump’s executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship. The administration has not yet asked the justices to settle the constitutionality of Trump’s order but has asked the high court to rein in...
President Trump on Thursday argued he would be able to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell if he wanted to, ratcheting up his criticism of the leader of the central bank. “Oh, he’ll leave. If I ask him to, he’ll be out of there,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I don't think he’s...