Month: July 2025

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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Critics saw the “irony” in the Fox News host’s comments that the “hilarious” president is ripe for a ribbing only under certain circumstances.

The Trump administration announced Monday it is investigating Duke University and the Duke Law Journal for allegedly using race-based discrimination to pick law journal members.  The Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to the university also detailing concerns regarding race discrimination in hiring, admissions and scholarships at the…
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Podcaster Joe Rogan is turning up the heat on President Trump, a onetime ally whom he accused of “gaslighting” his supporters over the controversy involving his administration’s handling of information about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “There’s a line in the sand,” Rogan said of the saga on a recent episode of his podcast, in…
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President Trump is wildly off in his commitment to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours of retaking the presidency — but it’s not for lack of trying.   His plan was to engage with his “friend,” Vladimir Putin, whom he called “brilliant” after Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Trump has shown his…
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Bill Maher is acknowledging that the doom and gloom predictions he had about the economy being negatively impacted by President Trump’s tariff plan so far haven’t panned out. “I remember I, along with probably most people, were saying at the beginning, by the Fourth of July… the economy was going to be tanked by then,”…
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A group of prominent Jewish Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Sen. Adam Schiff (Calif.), are leading an effort to press the Trump administration to secure a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and address what they called a “humanitarian crisis.” The push comes amid reports that Palestinians are dying from malnutrition in the…
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Mexico’s drug cartels are so tenacious, so powerful, that under intense pressure, they forge diamonds rather than crumble. Amid years of bloody turf wars, new tariffs aimed at hitting the global narcotics market and thousands more combat troops at the border, cartels are feeling the pressure.  The result? Two of the most notorious cartels, Sinaloa and Jalisco New…
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President Trump wraps up his trip abroad on a personal note on Tuesday morning, opening a new golf course that honors his mother, who was born in Scotland. After a dedication ceremony and a round of golf, Trump returns to Washington, where he’ll face four days of economic reports, meetings and potential trade deals. White…
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President Trump on Tuesday opened his new golf course in Aberdeen, playing a round of golf before returning back to Washington, D.C. after his swing in Scotland. “We’ll play it very quickly and then I go back to D.C. and we put out fires all over the world,” Trump said at the opening ceremony. “We…
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President Trump said that he is not looking for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, pushing back on reporting that the tariff talks this week could set the groundwork for a meeting with his counterpart. “The Fake News is reporting that I am SEEKING a ‘Summit’ with President Xi of China. This is not…
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Democrats must center their political arguments around rising costs since President Trump took office so their struggling party can capitalize on his dismal polling numbers, political strategists tell The Hill. Relatable messaging on affordability is how Democrats can criticize Trump effectively and show voters that they represent the interests of working-class Americans, many of whom…
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Democrats are retaliating against President Trump’s broad assault on their most cherished policy priorities by turning the Senate’s confirmation proceedings for relatively non-controversial executive branch nominees into pitched partisan battles, forcing Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to burn up the calendar on routine matters. Battling over nominees isn’t new in Washington, but Senate Democrats,…
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The good news for Democrats in the latest comprehensive survey of Americans’ partisan identities is that among young voters, the party has regained a lead, a 6-point advantage among those ages 18 to 29. The bad news: Four years ago, the advantage was 32 points. Every year, the Pew Research Center publishes its National Public…
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The “Late Show” host said this world leader seems to know exactly how to handle the president.

The “Daily Show” host spotted a bizarre moment at a presidential news conference.

Rep. Mike Collins declares that “we’ve got to be unafraid to call balls and strikes” just before a messy pitch in the video.