Month: July 2025

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) called on the FBI Tuesday to conduct a counterintelligence threat assessment of files connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in order to determine whether a foreign actor could use them against President Trump or other prominent Americans. “Whatever may be in the Epstein files is clearly troubling enough…
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President Trump is facing growing pushback on multiple fronts over his administration’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its H20 chips to China, a move that critics argue could give Beijing a leg up in the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI).  A group of former national security officials and tech policy advocates called on…
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“Burn it all down,” Charlamagne tha God said while ranting about the Epstein case.

President Trump’s trade policies are less damaging than expected, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) upgrading the projections of global economic growth for this year and 2026.  The IMF, a Washington-based financial institution that works on facilitating international trade and sustained economic growth, projected a 3 percent global economic growth for 2025, 0.2 percentage points…
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An attorney for the Jeffrey Epstein accomplice outlined the conditions she’d demand before speaking to lawmakers.

Officials from Beijing and Washington on Tuesday agreed to continue talks on extending tariff rates under an established 90-day truce. China’s top trade negotiator, Li Chenggang, discussed the progress during a press conference in Sweden, where officials have held talks for the past two days. “The Chinese and U.S. economic and trade teams will maintain…
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The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule would revoke a finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said the streets of Los Angeles are empty as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions in recent months. In a video posted to social media, Padilla said customers are afraid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, and businesses have suffered in what, he said, is typically a…
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“You shouldn’t have to be a Republican or a Democrat to care about making sure there’s transparency on something as horrific as the abuses that happened,” Pete Buttigieg said.

Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) will speak Tuesday afternoon on recently introduced legislation targeting President Trump’s “sick tax,” a provision in the GOP-led spending and tax package that will require Medicaid enrollees to pay more out of pocket when visiting a health care provider. Welch, along with other Democrats, has in recent weeks pushed back against…
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday launched a public inquiry into whether providers of gender-affirming health care are violating federal consumer protection laws.  In a news release, the FTC said it opened the inquiry “to better understand how consumers may have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about ‘gender-affirming care’, especially as it relates…
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The journalist and niece of former President John F. Kennedy called the proposal “petty” and “small minded” in a post on X.

In his second inaugural address, President Trump announced he would build “the strongest military the world has ever seen.” He followed up by sending Congress in June a record $1.01 trillion Defense Department budget for fiscal year 2026.   Trump also said in his inaugural address that he wanted to be remembered as “a peacemaker and a unifier.”  But…
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The White House treated a marketing event at his for-profit golf club as an official act and helped him promote it.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) leads Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 8 points in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race in one of the first independent polls of the general election.  The Fairleigh Dickinson University poll released on Tuesday showed Sherrill leading with 45 percent support to Ciattarelli’s 37 percent, with 16 percent of survey respondents undecided. The race…
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An attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell said she would only speak with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee if granted immunity — an idea the panel swiftly rejected. The panel last week subpoenaed Maxwell, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, compelling her testimony amid demands on the Trump administration to release files from the financier who killed himself…
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More than $158 million in grants have been abruptly terminated.

The worst-case scenario of famine is playing out in the Gaza Strip, the leading international authority on food crisis said in an alert Tuesday as aid workers urge immediate action to avoid thousands of preventable deaths.  The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, issued the alert but stopped short of a formal famine declaration. The…
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Most Americans support President Trump’s immigration goals, but they argued the administration’s approach is overreaching, according to a new survey. The Wall Street Journal poll, released Monday, found that 62 percent of U.S. adults said they are supportive of the administration’s deportation of migrants who are in the country illegally.  Despite the support, many respondents…
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(NEXSTAR) — If you’ve been waiting and hoping for another stimulus check since receiving your last COVID relief payment in 2021, you may be in luck. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has introduced legislation that would send out “tariff rebates” meant to “allow hard-working Americans to benefit from the wealth that Trump’s tariffs are returning to…
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During President Trump’s push for his “big, beautiful” budget bill, either a betrayal or a political blunder occurred as an unelected bureaucrat became the most powerful person in the U.S. Congress. Before we go any further with a new budget — a process that is already underway — that needs to change.    Trump campaigned with…
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U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said talks with China are “going in the right direction” as negotiators in Washington and Beijing try to break an impasse on tariffs. “Obviously, we’ve had a lot of tensions over the years. We’ve had tensions now. But the fact that we are regularly meeting with them to address these…
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Russia has continued its offensive, killing at least 22 people in Ukraine by launching ballistic missiles and glide bombs into multiple cities despite President Trump’s threats to slap sanctions and shorten the timeline for Moscow to agree to a ceasefire.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 73 cities and villages came under Russia’s overnight attack,…
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The president opened his newest Scottish golf course, ending a $10 million taxpayer-funded foreign trip.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation has filed an ethics complaint against Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, arguing the close of ally of President Trump has “engaged in egregious misconduct,” and calling for him to be disbarred. In the organization’s complaint, filed with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals’ Office of Disciplinary…
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