Month: July 2025

O’Donnell, a recent target of the president’s threats, sounded the alarm on the network’s stunning “Late Show” decision.

The president could be in for a rude awakening.

The Justice Department (DOJ) asked a federal court on Friday to unseal the grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case.  Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed two different, almost identical, motions to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to release the transcripts of the man convicted of sex-trafficking minors…
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday released a report alleging Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence related to Russian interference in the 2016 election. Gabbard asserted in a statement that former officials engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” and said her office was turning over evidence to the Justice Department for possible criminal referrals. “The…
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Bryson DeChambeau, a two-time U.S. Open champion, suggested Friday the Trump Organization’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland host the British Open.  “It’s one of the best golf courses in the world, and I’d love for it to be a part of the rotation,” DeChambeau told reporters, according to The Associated Press. “Albeit I haven’t played…
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Trump is waging a public war against elite universities. But he’s also begun a more subtle one that will hurt some students’ chance to attend at all.

Trump vowed to sue and claimed he had nothing to do with the lewd birthday letter.

The Writers Guild of America said it has “significant concerns” that the cancellation is another bribe aimed at Trump.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel slammed CBS on Thursday for ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “Love you Stephen. F‑‑‑ you and all your Sheldons CBS,” Kimmel, the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” wrote in a Thursday post on his Instagram story.  The network announced Thursday that “The Late Show” will conclude in May 2026 after…
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The Trump administration announced Friday it helped facilitate a prisoner swap, securing the release of 10 U.S. citizens held in Venezuela in exchange for the return of more than 250 Venezuelan men the U.S. had sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador. The Venezuelan men have spent months in El Salvador’s most notorious prison, known…
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President Trump signed the first major cryptocurrency bill into law Friday, marking a key milestone for an industry that has found a crucial ally in the president.  He touted the GENIUS Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for dollar-backed digital tokens called stablecoins, as “a giant step to cement the American dominance of global finance…
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Friday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks “stupid as hell” for trying to rename military bases and resurrect honorifics for Confederate officers by using other soldiers as eponymous stand-ins. The Pentagon announced in February that it would partially restore the names of two military sites that were given new monikers…
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The Writers Guild of America East and West called on New York Attorney General Letitia James to launch an investigation Friday into why CBS canceled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” accusing the network’s parent company of offering a “bribe” to the Trump administration. The guild, whose members include writers for the Colbert program, asked…
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Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress’s elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). “I think we’re all in a bit of a state of a shock and also sort of reeling at the shortsightedness of it all,” Burns said…
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Ingraham on Thursday alluded to covering The Wall Street Journal’s latest report ahead of a commercial break, only to… not do that when she returned.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) warned that GOP redistricting efforts in the Lone Star State represent a “five-alarm fire” and urged Democrats to push back. “This is a five-alarm fire, what’s happening in Texas. Donald Trump has already said that if he does this to Texas, he wants to do this all across the country,” the…
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Another attempt to defend dear old dad goes down in flames.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) wants the House to ditch any subscriptions it has to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) following the newspaper’s bombshell report Thursday that shed new light on President Trump’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I’ll be introducing legislation to end the House of Representatives subscription contract with the WSJ,” Fine…
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Trump administration officials rejected a series of rules Friday to help the international community prevent and respond to public health risks.   Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement formally rejecting the 2024 International Health Regulations (IHR) Amendments by the World Health Organization…
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Beijing’s Kyodo News reported June 29 that China is planning to invite President Trump to attend a military parade at Tiananmen Square on Sept. 3.  The event marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II under the banner of the “Commemoration of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the…
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President Trump will sign the GENIUS Act into law Friday, paving the way for a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. The House voted 308-122 to advance the cryptocurrency legislation to Trump’s desk. It was one of several crypto-related bills that faced a roadblock over internal GOP divisions, which brought the chamber floor to a standstill…
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday pushed back on GOP criticisms regarding renovation costs for two buildings in Washington, suggesting the upgrades are overdue. “The project is large in scope because it involves the renovation of two historic buildings on the National Mall and that were first constructed in the 1930s,” Powell wrote in…
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President Trump’s claim that Coca-Cola is switching to cane sugar has left a bitter taste for corn syrup lobbyists, who warn that the recipe shake-up will threaten the income of thousands of American farmers. The Corn Refiners Association, which represents high-fructose corn syrup producers, said the change threatens thousands of jobs and risks devastating primarily…
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The project’s architects called for glass; Trump appointees demanded expensive marble.

A senior White House official on Friday said President Trump’s request to reopen Alcatraz at a reported $2 billion price tag seems “excessive.” The figure “sounds excessive, but ultimately it’s up to the President to decide,” the official told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister station. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured the…
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