Month: July 2025

More than 6 in 10 voters in a new poll (63 percent) disapprove of how the Trump administration handled its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Just 17 percent of voters surveyed in the Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday said they were satisfied with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) conclusions that Epstein kept…
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President Trump will sign legislation Wednesday afternoon that aims to curb the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S. during a bill-signing ceremony. The bill — the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act or HALT Fentanyl Act — will reschedule the opioid as a Schedule I drug, which could result in harsher penalties for…
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) called on a Trump judicial nominee to provide more details about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case as questions persist over the federal investigation into the convicted sex offender. President Trump tapped Emil Bove, the principal deputy attorney general, for a lifetime appointment to the 3rd…
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MAGA conspiracy theorists had to engage in Simone Biles-level mental gymnastics over the years as they have seen countless claims by Donald Trump be debunked or turned into nothingburgers. It turns out Barack Obama was an American citizen the whole time. Osama Bin Laden was actually killed by Navy SEALs. John F. Kennedy Jr. is not coming…
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is seeking to close the distance between himself and President Trump when it comes to the release of the government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile financier whose sordid case has rattled the MAGA movement in recent days.  On Tuesday, Johnson said the Trump administration “should put everything out there and…
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With tons of new money and the Supreme Court’s blessing, the United States is making a “global gulag.”

“[It was] a very personal favor, as big as you can get — having to do with death and life,” the president claimed.

Multiple Louisiana law enforcement officials, including two city police chiefs, have been charged following an FBI investigation into an alleged visa fraud and bribery scheme that prevented immigrants from being deported. The U.S. attorney’s office for Louisiana’s Western District said in a news release Oakdale Police Chief Chad Doyle, Forrest Hill Police Chief Glynn Dixon…
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said on Wednesday that rural radio stations in her home state could go out of business due to a rescissions package moving through Congress seeking to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). “My hope is that we find some way to get through this, and so we don’t…
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The president accused his supporters of buying into “bulls**t.”

In Stockholm, Sweden, the average wait time to rent an apartment is almost 10 years. New York City could be headed down this road if Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani delivers on his promise to freeze rents on the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Government rent controls fail because they reduce housing supply and worsen affordability. This is one of the…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) warned “two can play this game” in a post online after President Trump said he’s vying to pick up five House seats in Texas during a midcycle redistricting. “Trump said he’s going to steal 5 Congressional seats in Texas and gerrymander his way into a 2026 win. Well, two can play that game,”…
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The president told Republican lawmakers he’s likely to oust the man overseeing the Federal Reserve, according to multiple reports.

Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, urged his colleagues Wednesday to “demand answers” regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files, as President Trump has repeatedly tried to tamp down the public fixation on the convicted sex offender’s case. “It’s obvious to the American public, someone is lying, and…
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“They’ve got videotape and all a sudden they don’t,” the podcaster said of the government’s sudden flip on Epstein files.

Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) said he has “been called a racist” by fellow members of the House Ways and Means Committee for his support of Medicaid work requirements passed this month as part of the GOP’s massive tax and spending legislation. “I think work matters in America. I’ve been criticized by that — I’ve been…
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) went after a new bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) that would repeal Medicaid cuts President Trump signed into law earlier this month. “One thing the bill does is for any Republican that’s been saying, ‘Oh, these weren’t actually cuts to Medicaid,’ it shows a lie to that,” Lieu said…
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A coalition of 20 states on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its decision to shut down a multibillion-dollar grant program aimed at strengthening infrastructure before natural disasters strike. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, contends that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) unlawfully eliminated its Building Resilient Infrastructures and Communities (BRIC) program…
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Nearly 61 percent of Americans oppose the GOP’s massive tax and spending overhaul, a new poll found roughly a week after President Trump signed the “big, beautiful bill” into law. About 36 percent of respondents in the CNN poll released Wednesday said they “strongly oppose” the new domestic policy megabill, while 25 percent said they…
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) signaled Tuesday that he doesn’t believe the findings from the Justice Department’s (DOJ) probe of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein — including the lack of a client list and the cause of his 2019 death. “I’m over it. It disgusts me,” Burchett told CNN’s Manu Raju. “I’m big on…
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President Trump will welcome Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa to the White House Wednesday morning, where the prime minister is expected to announce $17 billion worth of investment in the U.S. The proposal comes as the Trump administration began sending out tariff letters earlier this month outlining new rates on trading partners…
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CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman said late Tuesday that Trump administration officials are considering the release of “some sort of additional material” tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “There is a discussion about releasing some sort of additional material. We will see what that looks like,” Haberman, a New York Times political correspondent, said…
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier acknowledged on Tuesday the growing public frustration over President Trump’s push to move past Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking case. “I mean, the story doesn’t go away here,” Baier said at the start of Tuesday’s episode of “Special Report,” leading into a news story on the latest Epstein updates. Baier…
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Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped questions and calls for her to resign over the Justice Department’s (DOJ) handling of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s files on Tuesday, instead focusing on the Trump administration’s goals to fight the fentanyl drug crisis. “I’m going to be here for as long as the president wants me here,” Bondi told…
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The Trump administration sued to oust the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) board’s three Democratic appointees on Tuesday, escalating the legal battle as Republican lawmakers look to slash the group’s funding.  The three members quickly sued in April after President Trump attempted to fire them, arguing the move interferes with the traditional independence of the…
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