Month: July 2025

To the families sent fleeing from MacArthur Park on Monday in California, President Trump’s latest ICE raid must have seemed like an invasion. The massive operation involved nine federal agencies, the National Guard, local police and more than a dozen armored military vehicles. It was the kind of shock-and-awe campaign more at home in Fallujah…
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Neil Jacobs, who was tapped by President Trump to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will face the Senate in a confirmation hearing Wednesday morning. Jacobs’s testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee comes just days after heavy rainfall and disastrous flooding killed more than 100 people in Texas’s Hill Country…
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Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is set to make a trip to Iowa next month as speculation about possible presidential ambitions stirs around the freshman senator.  Gallego’s political operation announced in a press release Wednesday that he will visit the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 8. A day later, Aug. 9, he will also hold a…
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Conservative pundit Megyn Kelly knocked President Trump for dismissing a question about Jefferey Epstein during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “Good grief! That was no bueno, guys! That was no bueno, OK? President Trump had the same problem there that Karoline Leavitt had yesterday. The dodge should not be obvious. It should be subtle. It…
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President Trump had golf legend Gary Player on his mind Tuesday, following reports that the 89-year-old retired athlete hit the links in Scotland this week. Player, who turns 90 in November, is one of only six professional golfers who has won a career grand slam by winning all four modern majors. The historic Irvine Golf…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Wednesday it will be subpoenaing Harvard University for “relevant information” on international students, in the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s battle with higher education institutions. The department said in a press release Wednesday that the administrative subpoenas come after Harvard “repeatedly refused past non-coercive requests to…
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Mark Epstein, the older brother of the late Jeffrey Epstein, argued Tuesday that the Trump administration keeps putting its foot “further down their mouth” amid controversy over the disgraced financier’s 2019 death by suicide. The case has been back in headlines in recent days after the Department of Justice concluded in a memo that there…
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President Trump on Wednesday will host leaders from several African nations, looking to shore up relationships as the State Department has scaled back its presence on the continent. West African leaders will join Trump for a White House lunch to discuss areas of economic cooperation, security and democracy, according to the Liberian Embassy. Liberia, Senegal,…
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July 9 was supposed to be D-Day for President Trump’s tariffs. Instead, yet another delay has pushed the deadline to Aug. 1. This is certain not to be the final delay, and there’s a growing likelihood that the extreme tariffs proposed never get implemented — that they will have served primarily as a negotiating tool.  The…
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Authorities said the chatbot generated responses insulting the strongman president, modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and religious values.

Russia intensified its bombardment of Ukraine overnight with a record drone attack targeting 10 regions, less than 24 hours after President Trump aired his frustrations with Russian President Vladimir Putin for making little progress toward peace in the more than three-year war. The Russian military fired 728 drones, including more than 300 Shahed drones, along…
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The Republican senator is pushing Trump to support a bill that would impose tough sanctions on this major U.S. adversary and its enablers.

They point to limited access to basic resources as well as oppressive temperatures.

“There are hundreds, if not thousands, of reasons” to think the president is a fool and this “is as good as any,” said the conservative attorney.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are dismayed that the Trump administration hasn’t made more progress in negotiating trade deals and fear the country is heading for another bout of economic turbulence after President Trump announced a new round of steep tariffs on 14 countries. Senior Trump administration officials, including Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent, had signaled earlier this…
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The president claimed he threatened Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin in audio aired on CNN.

Trump has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of offering up “bullshit” in ceasefire talks.

The president went on some wild tangents during Tuesday’s meeting.

“2024” also details how Harris wanted to zing Trump on the call and why she ultimately didn’t.

The actor mocked the president’s attempt to explain a word.

A review found just under half of the claimed spending originated under Joe Biden or represented routine spending repackaged to promote domestic investments.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said they plan to “tattoo” Trump’s unpopular bill onto every single Republican who supported it.

Ronny Chieng quipped that he’s “never been ghosted by a conspiracy before.”

The Democratic California governor’s tour adds credence to rumors that he is preparing a 2028 presidential run.

The move puts many immigrants at risk of removal from the U.S.