Month: July 2025

President Trump on Saturday doubled down on his accusations that former Vice President Harris paid celebrities to endorse her during the 2024 presidential election.  The president, echoing previous claims that Harris paid Beyoncé, Oprah and Al Sharpton to support her White House bid throughout the campaign trail, said Harris and the celebrities involved should be…
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Political analyst Maggie Haberman on Friday evaluated the potential impact of President Trump possibly pardoning convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell after she cooperated with the Justice Department (DOJ) during two days of interviews.  “It’s quite a line to walk,” Haberman said during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins.”  “What I think you’re…
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The Trump administration and Cabinet members remain entangled in a saga entrenched in controversy over files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which is likely to be a focus of this week’s Sunday shows. Members of Congress and the public are continuing to call on leaders to release the names of past clients, associates…
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“It reminds me of a punch drunk boxer. He’s just wildly flailing,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino vowed on Saturday to uncover the “truth” in a cryptic post on the social platform X, proclaiming that “we cannot run a Republic like this.”  Bongino said that he and FBI Director Kash Patel are committed to “stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and…
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President Donald Trump’s comments about convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell left senior legal analyst Elie Honig in near disbelief.

Attorney George Conway criticized President Trump on Friday for not completely ruling out a pardon for convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell at the center of the Jeffrey Epstein case. His words came after Trump told reporters earlier in the day that he was “allowed” to grant Maxwell clemency but hadn’t considered taking the measure.  “She…
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The podcaster has joined a growing chorus of right-wingers disillusioned by the administration’s unfulfilled promise to release more info about the sex offender.

Comedian David Letterman on Friday joined the chorus of late-night hosts to bash CBS News after it announced it would sunset “The Late Show” after more than three decades on air, while praising host Stephen Colbert as a “martyr.” Letterman — the show’s first host — alluded to the recent $16 million settlement between CBS’s…
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“You’re making a very big thing over something that’s not a big thing,” President Donald Trump told reporters questioning him about Jeffrey Epstein.

Qatar will send the $400 million Boeing 747 aircraft as an unconditional “donation” to the Department of Defense, The Washington Post reported.

A Venezuelan Little League baseball team will miss the Senior Baseball World Series held in South Carolina after it was was denied entry into the U.S. because the players were unable to obtain visas. Cacique Mara Little League team, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, qualified for the World Series after winning the Latin American championship in Mexico,…
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President Trump threatened to withhold potential trade deals from Thailand and Cambodia amid a border conflict that has displaced tens of thousands of civilians and left at least 32 people dead. Trump said on Saturday that he spoke with Cambodia’s prime minister Hun Manet and that he called Thailand’s acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai to…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) criticized President Trump over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire, increased aid to the war-torn enclave and the release of all remaining hostages held by the Palestinian militant group. “During the first six months of Donald Trump’s time in office, the humanitarian…
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Paramount and Skydance announced Friday that, with the Trump administration’s approval, the highly anticipated merger between the entertainment giants is expected to take place next month. The Aug. 7 date, unveiled in a press release, comes after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday allowed Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount to move forward after the merger…
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Former national security adviser John Bolton, a frequent critic of President Trump, dismissed the allegation Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard leveled against former President Obama, arguing she “imagined evidence that doesn’t exist.”  “She’s strung together a series of things that aren’t necessarily related, she’s exaggerated what actual congressional reports have said, she’s imagined…
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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on the cobblestone and tree-lined street in front of the U.S. Consulate about 100 miles away in Edinburgh.

In 1980, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin saw an ad for the Central Intelligence Agency on a bus.  John Brennan decided to apply, thinking that such a job would satisfy his “wanderlust.” This month, the “wanderlust” of John Brennan came to an end, as the former CIA director stands accused…
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The strength of the U.S. dollar influences trade, inflation and investment, but as President Trump noted Friday, the currency’s power comes with trade-offs. “I’m a person that likes a strong dollar, but a weak dollar makes you a hell of a lot more money,” Trump told reporters Friday. The president added that a strong dollar…
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Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-Fla.) weighed in on the “silly” saga around the files of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, encouraging the Trump administration to release “whatever you go.” “I was elected to work, and right now, because of a dead pedophile, Congress is at impasse. We’ve got paralysis. I’ve always been a big…
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The disgraced British socialite is at the center of renewed public interest in Epstein.

The Trump administration has unleashed a tsunami of budget cuts to federal science programs. Mass firings have taken place at both the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education, part of a deliberate decimation of research staff across the federal government. Since January, the administration has systematically cut science funding to its lowest level in decades and issued…
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NASA is slashing nearly more than 20 percent of its workforce as part of President Trump’s efforts to downsize the federal government since returning to the White House. Nearly 4,000 workers have requested to depart the space agency through two rounds of the deferred resignation program. The deadline for the program was Friday at midnight. …
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President Trump has seemingly reignited his feud with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over proceeds from the California FireAid concert, arguing that $100 million in donations intended for Los Angeles residents who were affected by the January fires is “missing.”  “‘FIREAID’ IS A TOTAL DISASTER. LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER DEMOCRAT INSPIRED SCAM. 100 MILLION DOLLARS IS…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio “succeeded [in creating] an environment where people wake up and don’t want to come in to work,” a still-serving State Department official told HuffPost.