Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) criticized Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s (R) efforts during his tenure as Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) chief of staff to stop a ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. In a post on social platform X, Gaetz referenced a column by retired Florida Supreme Court Justice Alan Lawson on...
Minnesota’s first lady, Gwen Walz, slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F Kennedy Jr. over comments he made about autism on Wednesday. In a Wednesday press conference on a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Kennedy said that “autism destroys families.” “More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which...
President Trump on Thursday floated a wider crackdown on tax-exempt entities after his administration asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status this week. “Tax-exempt status, I mean, that’s a privilege. It’s really a privilege. And it’s been abused. By a lot more than Harvard, too,” Trump told reporters in the...
A Trump administration appointee asked the IRS in March to review an audit of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a close President Trump ally, according to The Washington Post, which cited two people familiar with the matter and records that the news outlet obtained. The Treasury Department official, David Eisner, wrote an email last month to...
President Trump on Thursday called a deadly shooting at Florida State University (FSU) "terrible," but he dismissed the possibility of it spurring any changes to gun laws in the country. "Look, I'm a big advocate of the Second Amendment. I have been from the beginning. I've protected it, and these things are terrible," Trump told...
An appeals court has temporarily halted a lower court’s order that enabled the release of contested climate funds. Earlier this week, District Judge Tanya Chutkan blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from clawing back billions of dollars in climate funds that were given to climate finance organizations during the Biden administration. Her order directed Citibank to...
A federal housing agency sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice Monday arguing New York Attorney General Letitia James appeared to have falsified mortgage records.