Month: July 2025

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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“Torture is a celebration of life and human dignity,” Miller argued in high school.

Nearly six months into President Trump’s second term, he has sown even more chaos and instability than in his first term, and public opinion of him has shifted negative.  Major polls show Trump’s approval rating in the mid 40s, with over 50 percent disapproving — worse than most recent presidents at this stage. Americans give him even lower…
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The State Department will scale back its assessments of elections in foreign countries, only chiming in publicly when there is a “clear and compelling” foreign policy interest, according to a new directive sent to U.S. embassies and consulates around the world. The Thursday directive indicates that when weighing in on an election, U.S. officials’ message…
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The White House on Friday touted a drop in gas prices as evidence of President Trump’s energy agenda taking effect after AAA noted it was the lowest price per gallon in four years. AAA, which tracks gas prices around the country, said in a news release that the price of a gallon of gas had…
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Doctors discuss how common the condition is, why it happens — and whether Trump’s symptoms align with his diagnosis.

Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the 12:30 Report newsletter Subscribe Happy Friday! There has been so much news since yesterday (!), but there’s one thing the internet seems to agree on: the Coldplay concert scandal is…
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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in a recent interview claimed Democrats who are now seeking more details about the Jeffrey Epstein case “never once” did so while he was in charge of the GOP-led House during the Biden administration. “They never asked about it — they tried to hide from it,” McCarthy said during an…
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The president on Friday openly basked in the news and suggested that Jimmy Kimmel might be “next” in losing his late night job.

The Journal published a story on Thursday, alleging the president wrote a bawdy message to Epstein in a collection of birthday letters.

After decades of brutal conflict, I was encouraged by President Trump’s recent announcement of a new peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Joined in the Oval Office by the foreign ministers of Rwanda and Congo, he outlined a plan to end a war that had killed 7,000 people in just the first two months of this year,…
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Most Americans think that President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which he signed into law earlier this month, will help those who are wealthy and harm those who are poor, according to a new survey that was released Friday morning.  The new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 64 percent of U.S. adults…
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Vice President Vance slammed what he called a “complete and utter bulls‑‑‑” Wall Street Journal article about a “bawdy” birthday note President Trump allegedly wrote to former acquaintance Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. “Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bulls‑‑‑,” Vance wrote on the social platform X on Thursday. “Does anyone honestly…
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President Trump said Friday morning he hopes to get publisher Rupert Murdoch to testify as part of the lawsuit he vowed to file against The Wall Street Journal after the outlet reported about an alleged birthday letter Trump sent 20 years ago to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier since convicted of sex trafficking and other…
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On Tuesday, Mike Waltz, President Trump’s former national security adviser, faced a grilling in the Senate as he seeks his next job: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.   In his confirmation hearing, Waltz spun himself as a tough advocate for American interests. Yet he kept bumping up against the same dilemma: in spite of the…
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President Trump on Friday asked why the Democrats — when they controlled the Senate and White House — did not release the files linked to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, which have dominated the headlines in recent days. “If there was a ‘smoking gun’ on Epstein, why didn’t the Dems, who controlled the ‘files’ for four…
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President Trump said Friday morning that he was thrilled by the news that CBS is canceling the decade-running “Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social. “His talent was even less than his ratings.” The president also took aim at ABC’s “Late…
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