Month: July 2025

The Kremlin is sticking to its war demands, even as President Trump makes new threats of sanctions that would go into effect if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine in less than 50 days. “Russia is ready to move swiftly. The most important thing for us is to achieve…
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It’s just six months into President Trump’s second term, and speculation is swirling about the fate of his Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell. Headlines pulse with the drama of his impending firing, and pundits are debating the consequences — as if such an act were merely a question of presidential will.   Yet beneath the spectacle…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized leakers in response to a Wall Street Journal story that said he personally sought to talk President Trump out of trying to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The president slammed the report Sunday. Bessent was asked Monday on CNBC if the Journal story was real and if he had…
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The president is trying to play hardball with the football team.

The Trump administration is very good at ignoring the law. Now it is encouraging pastors and churches to do the same.   Earlier this month, the Trump IRS announced in a legal filing that churches can endorse political candidates. That is directly contrary to federal law, which states that tax-exempt nonprofit groups, including churches, can’t use those tax-exempt…
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Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who once represented disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, says his former client’s longtime co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, “knows everything” about the Epstein case and should be offered immunity to testify before Congress. The comments come as the Trump administration, which had pledged full disclosure and transparency on the Epstein files, is…
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More than half of Americans — 57 percent — said in a new survey that they think the GOP’s sweeping package extending tax cuts and slashing welfare services will increase their health-care costs. Thirteen percent in the CBS/YouGov poll released Sunday said that the “big, beautiful bill” will lower their health-care costs and 33 percent…
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Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how President Trump has handled inflation — one of his key campaign promises — a poll has found six months into his second term. The CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday also found that half of U.S. adults think the Trump administration’s policies have made them “financially worse off,” and…
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Jeffrey Epstein died in prison in August 2019 and left a legacy of unanswered questions. He had been part of America’s service economy, but there is controversy as to just was the nature of his services. Certainly, much of it was sex trafficking with underage girls. But he apparently rendered financial services as well. Epstein…
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Congress is pushing toward its summer recess this week, putting the focus on government funding amid the swirling saga of Jeffrey Epstein. Monday marks two weeks since the Justice Department and FBI issued a memo stating the disgraced financier and sex offender kept no “client list” and that he died from suicide in 2019. A…
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Jon Stewart and Jon Oliver, two of the biggest names in current events-focused comedy, expressed dismay at the decision by CBS to cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” “It’s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy,” Oliver said during a recent event in Erie, Pa., adding that he is “partly excited to see”…
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A former federal prosecutor based in Manhattan says she doesn’t expect grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case to produce much new information involving the disgraced financier and sex offender. “It’s not going to be much,” Sarah Krissoff, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, told The Associated Press…
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By backing inhumane and aggressive policies, he’s managed to turn one of his strongest issues into a major vulnerability.

If the feud between President Trump and Elon Musk exposed cracks in the “MAGA coalition,” the brewing fight over the Jeffrey Epstein client list threatens to blow the levees wide open.   For the first time, there is a very real threat to Trump’s perceived infallibility among the most devoted.  The fight, which began with a…
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We know from decades of scientific research, and now from brutal experience, that global climate change is real. Few, if any, places in the U.S. are safe from its many consequences. They are as quick as flash floods and as slow as rising seas, but they are undeniably real and growing worse.  They are the…
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“People don’t explain to me, I explain to them!” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions package has created bad blood on Capitol Hill. White House budget director Russell Vought says the administration plans to send up another wave of…
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Their 2016 White House meeting takes a chilling turn in the clip shared by the president.

The former talk show host opened up about her reason for leaving the U.S. permanently.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) launched a slate of new digital ads targeting Republicans in a number of key battleground states ahead of legislative races in 2025 and 2026. The digital ads, which were first obtained by The Hill, will target voters in Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The ads will…
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And Republicans understand one thing about the Epstein scandal, said the Texas Democrat.

Critics offered the former Fox News star a reminder of her own TV history.

The South Carolina Republican tried to spin the viral jumbotron moment into a win for Donald Trump and people pointed out the hilarious flaw.

Miles Taylor predicted that Trump will create distractions to keep people from talking about the Epstein case.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons said in an interview that aired Sunday that his agency will crack down on American companies hiring unauthorized workers. “Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we’re focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these…
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