Month: July 2025

Paramount, Meta and X are among the companies giving tens of millions of dollars to Trump’s future library as they seek perks from his administration.

Actor Kevin Spacey is demanding the release of all the files and names associated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s case. In a Tuesday morning post on the social platform X, Spacey called for the release of the files, adding that the “truth can’t come soon enough.” “Release the Epstein files. All of them,” he wrote. “For those…
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Commentators Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro sparred on Monday over Jeffrey Epstein’s files and theories regarding his death.  Kelly said sources have confirmed to her that Epstein did not kill himself but was targeted while working as an “agent” for the Israeli government, while Shapiro said unnamed whistleblowers were unreliable.  “I can claim that he…
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American astronauts have been in low-Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station for nearly a quarter century. Their continuous presence in space has led to innovations such as cochlear implants that help deaf people hear, technology that makes our phone cameras sharper, better water filtration and so much more that benefits us back here on Earth. Unfortunately, President Trump’s budget…
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Legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow lambasted his own industry in a 1958 presentation that has famously been labeled the “Wires and Lights in a Box” speech. Presciently, he warned the broadcast journalists of the Radio Television News Directors Association about the dangers of letting corporate and special interests get in the way of solid…
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Russian leaders responded flippantly Tuesday to the Trump administration’s threat of “severe” tariffs if Moscow doesn’t quickly come to a peace agreement with Ukraine. “Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin. The world shuddered, expecting the consequences,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, wrote in a post on…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said that the process to pick a new chairman of the Federal Reserve has started, ahead of chair Jerome Powell’s term ending in 2026 and amid growing pressure from the White House for him to step aside early. “There’s a formal process that’s already starting,” Bessent told Bloomberg Television,…
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President Trump said he is “disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin after threatening Moscow with sanctions over its war with Ukraine, but added that he is not “done with him.”  “I’m disappointed in him, but I’m not done with him. But I’m disappointed in him,” Trump said in an interview with the BBC that was…
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Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that President Trump could soon retreat from efforts to resolve Russia’s war with Ukraine.  The Trump administration has been engaged with both Kyiv and Moscow in search of peace, while GOP lawmakers have pushed for secondary sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He didn’t get what he wanted, which was…
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A man once held in the same jail cell as Jeffrey Epstein argued that there is “just no way” the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender died by suicide in 2019.  “I spent seven months on that tier and in those cells. And the first thing I have to say, there’s just you – there’s…
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Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza on Monday said people should “move on” from encouraging the Trump administration to release files related to the sex-trafficking ring run by deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein.  “I’m going to talk about the Epstein files and I’m going to make the case that even though there are unanswered questions about Epstein, it…
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House Democratic leaders will speak to reporters Tuesday morning as those within the party air frustration with the Trump administration over files tied to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) have been among the most vocal critics of the Justice Department after a recent memo concluded Epstein…
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President Trump just took a partial step back from historic ignominy when it comes to the controversial issue of Ukraine.  This Monday he announced with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte a two-step transaction by which the U.S. will build and sell to NATO Patriot anti-missile systems and other weapons that NATO will then provide to Ukraine…
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The Florida congressman visited the new immigrant detention center in his state over the weekend and said “we can’t sanitize” its “horrible” conditions.

Officials from three universities will testify before the House Education Committee Tuesday morning around accusations of rising antisemitism on college campuses. Leaders from Georgetown University in Washington, University of California, Berkeley, and the City University of New York will face questions from lawmakers over the “the role of faculty, funding and ideology” in fueling antisemitism,…
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Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) will return to Capitol Hill Monday to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on China’s critical minerals supply chain and U.S. competitiveness. Manchin, who now serves on the board of critical minerals producer Ramaco Resources, retired from Congress in January. Once considered the most moderate Democrat in the upper…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday doubled down on his push for the Trump administration to release all of the files and names associated with late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s case, saying failing to do so is “dangerous” to the public. “If there are literally other people on this list who are somehow implicated in these…
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President Trump will promote his energy and technology agenda on Tuesday in Pittsburgh at a summit organized by Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.). Trump and McCormick will announce $70 billion in investments for the state, according to reports, at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, which will bring together Cabinet officials and industry leaders. “Pennsylvania…
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House Republican leaders will brief reporters Tuesday morning following its closed-door meeting, as their counterparts in the Senate work to push through President Trump’s rescissions package that could make some Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) funding cuts permanent. Their remarks also come a day after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) signaled openness to supporting increased sanctions…
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CNN pundit Van Jones said the “Make America Great Again” movement has been “bamboozled” over the Trump administration’s handling of records relating to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Look, MAGA has been took, had, bamboozled. I don‘t know, like — look, you have everything, that you just said, every Republican was saying, and…
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U.S. consumer prices picked up in June, likely marking the start of a long-anticipated tariff-induced increase in inflation.

Former national security adviser Mike Waltz will testify before the Senate on Friday morning on his nomination for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Waltz, who left his previous post in May after controversy surrounding the Trump administration’s use of the Signal messing app, will face questioning before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The confirmation…
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The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club called out the use of its recording of “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.”

Inflation rose by 2.7 percent in June following warnings from economists that the cost of President Trump’s tariffs would make it through value chains and start to show up in consumer prices over the summer. The Labor Department’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.3 percent on the month to hit an increase of 2.7…
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Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday that President Trump’s recently signed “big beautiful bill” should be a rallying cry for Democrats while calling the controversy over disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein just a “distraction.”  “I think the Democrats have just this wonderful opportunity [with] the “big, beautiful bill.” People detest this. And the more that…
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