A federal judge dealt a new blow to the Trump administration's attempt to reel in diversity, equity and inclusion policies, blocking the Department of Homeland Security from conditioning disaster relief on states ditching DEI.
The Supreme Court's decision earlier this year striking down President Trump's first attempt at global tariffs will sock it to the U.S. Treasury, blowing a nearly trillion-dollar hole in the budget over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Twenty-three years ago, Congress did something almost unheard of in today’s political climate: it came together unanimously to confront one of the darkest realities inside America’s correctional system. The Prison Rape Elimination Act, signed into law by then-President George W. Bush in 2003, established a national policy of zero tolerance for sexual abuse in prisons […]
As Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in federal court to stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the reaction to his attack remains unsettling. When it comes to political violence, one relatively consistent pattern is that the political movement that shares the ideology of the perpetrator will attempt to distance itself from the attacker. Partisan media […]
Last summer, I went out on a date with a woman, a dame, if you would, to a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game. We had amazing seats, saw an amazing game, and the Phillies won. A great time was had by all. While walking home after the game, we came to a street corner where the […]
Two Republicans pushed back on the Trump administration’s Friday decision to temporarily lift certain tariffs on imported ground beef in an effort to bring down prices for American consumers ahead of the midterm elections. President Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Friday morning that he had finalized “a deal to substantially lower the...
Grindr CEO George Arison and Sen. John Hickenlooper called for federal and state reforms to make fertility care and family formation more accessible and affordable for all Americans.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday carried out its first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration terminated deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians earlier this year. The plane, which carried more than 160 people, arrived in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien, The Associated Press reported. The U.S. has a...
President Trump announced Friday that the U.S. will pause higher tariffs on ground beef imports for 90 days to lower costs of the meat for consumers. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said the U.S. will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported without an “out-of-quota tariff," or the...