Month: July 2025

The president digressed Tuesday while speaking at an energy summit.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is testifying Wednesday morning before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on the department’s fiscal 2026 budget request. The hearing comes as Duffy and President Trump have vowed a full overhaul of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and air traffic control following a string of severe service outages and aviation accidents.…
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) chief Dana White said over the weekend that multiple fighters are in line to be on the list for a face off expected next year on the White House South Lawn. “Everybody wants to be on this card. I mean, you don’t even have to know who’s blowing up my phone,”…
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Lawmakers in the Congressional Progressive Caucus will brief reporters Wednesday morning on top priorities ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. From sweeping cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs in the newly signed “big, beautiful bill” to how the legislation will affect the national debt in years to come to fractures within the GOP over…
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Russia launched another large-scale overnight attack against Ukraine on Wednesday, as the clock ticks on President Trump’s 50-day deadline for more sweeping sanctions if Moscow doesn’t end its aggression. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an update on social platform X that the latest barrage targeted his country’s energy infrastructure. Fifteen people, including one child,…
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Joe Biden’s son spoke with Jaime Harrison on his “At Our Table” podcast.

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) on Tuesday defended the findings in the Trump administration’s probe of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, which concluded that he did not keep a “client list.” He also praised Attorney General Pam Bondi for her handling of the case. “I think Pam Bondi has done a great, great job,”…
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“I thought I’d lost it,” admitted the BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue.

David Schoen, a former attorney for the late Jeffrey Epstein, said Tuesday that President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi were not withholding a so-called client list for the disgraced financier. Schoen, who helped secure Epstein’s 2008 plea deal on state prostitution charges, argued that the public’s push for the release of names is based…
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For the QAnon followers and assorted conspiracy theorists at the core of President Trump’s MAGA coalition, the existence of the storied “Jeffrey Epstein Files” might as well be the movement’s gospel truth. Trump himself boasted that Epstein’s files were so damning that their big reveal would put most of his Democratic opponents behind bars.   Instead, the conspiracy theory that gave…
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Nearly six months into President Trump’s second term, The Hill and NewsNation team up to host the inaugural Hill Nation Summit, a full-day bipartisan gathering in Washington, featuring leaders in government, business and policy. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, White House senior counselor Peter Navarro,…
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President Trump’s approach to setting tariff rates is causing anxiety in the business community, with the trickling flow of letters to trad​e partners exacerbating concerns over hits to the economy. The president has sent two dozen letters to countries, with rates set between 20 percent and 50 percent to be imposed Aug. 1, while also leaving the door open to negotiations to lower…
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The “Late Night” comedian flipped the president’s latest brag right back on him.

The president’s boast backfired on one crucial point.

The “Tonight Show” host ripped Trump’s worsening “excuses” for his administration’s handling of files linked to the late convicted sex offender.

Jordan Klepper joked that the president was “cool as a cucumber” when asked about files tied to the late convicted sex offender.

President Trump’s disapproval rating hit its highest level since the start of his second term in office, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The survey, conducted over the weekend, shows 55 percent disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job, compared to 41 percent who approve. The most recent poll marks a slight shift…
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Harry Enten argued that the president’s tendencies have “historically” benefited him.

A dozen hardline Republicans on Tuesday derailed a raft of crypto legislation headed for a vote on the House floor, briefly throwing the three digital asset bills into limbo as GOP leadership scrambled to bring its caucus back together.  The House failed to pass a procedural vote to allow the chamber to move forward with…
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Days after criticizing his administration for closing the Epstein case, conservative personalities suddenly don’t want to talk about it anymore.

The firings come despite a backlog of cases — and a fresh infusion of funding for these courts.

Johnson called for transparency, while also blocking a Democratic measure urging the release of the files.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he would try to use a long-shot procedural gambit to force a vote on requiring the Department of Justice to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The move comes as President Trump and his administration face blowback from many within the GOP base over their…
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Very few Americans say in a new poll that it’s a good idea to scrap the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) entirely, a position President Trump has embraced in recent months. In the latest Economist/YouGov survey, conducted over the weekend, just 9 percent say FEMA should be eliminated. Another 10 percent say they think the…
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a close ally of President Trump, on Tuesday joined calls for a special counsel to investigate the handling of files in the case involving former financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “We deserve the truth about the Epstein Files. I’m ready for a Special Counsel to handle this,” Boebert wrote…
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