"Saturday Night Live” spoofed the recent Trump administration Signal group chat controversy in the latest Cold Open. The sketch starts with three teenage girls, played by Mikey Madison, Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman, texting in a group chat about topics like a boy’s haircut and another girl’s clothes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is played...
Fossil fuel companies do not need or deserve federal government subsidies, which, in any event, are antithetical to the professed economic philosophy of the Trump administration.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spoke out against President Trump’s imbalance on tariffs arguing that established levies have kept the world a stable place with a secure market. “International trade since World War II has made us phenomenally rich. President Trump paints it another way,” Paul said during a Sunday interview with radio host John Catsimatidis...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race Tuesday will put Elon Musk’s political and financial influence to the test after he poured millions of dollars in the race to support a conservative candidate. Musk has spent $12 million through his America PAC to support Brad Schimel over liberal candidate Susan Crawford in a race that will determine...
House Democrats are ramping up their aggressive strategy of conducting town halls in Republican-held districts, vying to exploit the GOP’s advised moratorium on the events to make inroads with frustrated voters, pick up battleground seats, and flip control of the House in next year’s midterms. A number of Democrats who ventured this month into GOP...
Democrats and their embattled Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have received a welcome change to rebound amid the controversy surrounding the Signal group chat that entangled a number of Trump Cabinet members over the past week. "Signalgate," in which a journalist was inadvertently included in a Trump administration group chat that included sensitive information about...
Republicans are bashing a federal judge's ruling blocking the deportation of suspected gang members and say they are moving to ensure such an occurrence does not happen again.
Notable among the many differences between the current administration and its predecessor is what it considers domestic terrorism. Last week, the FBI created a task force to investigate a wave of violent attacks targeting Tesla, Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company. This comes in response to at least 80 such cases […]
The Trump administration has reportedly fired a majority of employees at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) over the weekend, with termination letters landing in personal email accounts starting Friday evening. Only senior officials and staffers abroad remain employed at the organization that used to tout 300 workers, according to the Associated Press. “The dismissal...
President Trump on Saturday denied reports alleging he urged auto CEOs not to raise costs amid tariffs on foreign-made cars, instead doubling down on his decision to increase levies in an effort to create an American manufacturing boom. “I couldn’t care less if they raise prices, because people are going to start buying American-made cars,”...