Month: August 2025

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), a possible 2028 presidential candidate, said he is not inclined to engage in a partisan redistricting push in his state ahead of the 2026 midterms. In a Sunday interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Pritzker warned against more states redrawing their maps in the middle of the decade, but…
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As Democratic governors have become vocal critics of President Trump, one governor’s response has been more muted.  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is frequently mentioned as a possible contender for the 2028 presidential contest, has kept her focus on Michigan, a pivotal swing state Trump won in 2024. Whitmer has been quiet as other potential Democratic…
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Sunday pushed back on what she called a “misconception” of federal funding losses if her department is wound down at the federal level the way the Trump administration wants. “I think the misconception is that federal funding will go away if the Department of Education goes back more to the…
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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash on Saturday evening in New Hampshire, according to a statement from his security team. Giuliani’s vehicle was “struck from behind at high speed,” Michael Ragusa, head of Giuliani’s security, said in an official news release. Giuliani, who previously served as President Trump’s…
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., is “performative,” despite a recent drop in the violent crime rate. In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week,” Moore acknowledged there’s more work to do in Baltimore to bring down the crime rate. He said…
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The ruling came after attorneys for the minors said they were loaded onto planes overnight, in violation of laws that help protect migrant kids.

A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned U.S. deportation of Guatemalan children amid President Trump’s intense crackdown on immigration. In a court filing Sunday, lawyers for the children said they were “ten (10) unaccompanied minors from Guatemala between the ages of 10 and 17 whom Defendants are seeking to remove from the United States…
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“I mean they’re not putting in a Dave and Buster’s kind of situation here.”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he is “very confident” in the passage of his and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) bill on files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Congress left town early without voting on your bipartisan bill, which would basically call for the release of all of the…
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday that he does not “connect” autism and vaccines in the wake of five top officials’ exit at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The science has debunked links between autism and vaccines for more than 20 years,” NBC News’s Kristen Welker said on “Meet the Press.” “Oh…
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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said in a Friday post on Substack that President Trump is facing “self-inflicted disaster” amid his global trade war. “One crucial thing to understand is that Trump is facing a completely self-inflicted disaster here,” Krugman said in the post. “He probably could have gotten Republicans in Congress to vote for insane…
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday “reaffirmed that the two countries were development partners” amid President Trump’s steep tariffs on India, according to a press release. According to a press release from Modi’s office, Xi and Modi had a meeting on Sunday in the Chinese city of Tianjin. The…
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His lying and temper tantrums aside, evidence abounds that the president’s most important, and dangerous, feature is his ignorance.

Federal elections are administered at the state level and it is unclear whether the president has the constitutional power to enact such a measure.

“I should never have gotten into this relationship,” said astrology influencer Amy Tripp, aka Starheal.

President Trump’s administration is facing fallout from this week’s leadership shakeup at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where the agency’s director was terminated and other top officials resigned.  The president fired Susan Monarez on Wednesday after she clashed with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., over vaccine policy.…
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“I would have loved to have had it done. Maybe they have to fight a little longer,” said President Donald Trump.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) signed an executive order detailing how the Windy City will attempt to respond to President Trump’s potential deployment of the National Guard.  Johnson’s executive order, which he signed on Saturday, established the “Protecting Chicago Initiative” to protect the constitutional rights of Chicago residents amid the “possibility of imminent militarized immigration…
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The Fox News contributor said President Donald Trump is “authentic all the way” in taking over American aspects of life she claimed “used to belong to the left.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressuring Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign after this week’s tumult at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that saw top officials depart after the agency director was ousted.  Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)…
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The California governor also slammed President Donald Trump’s policies as “completely perverted capitalism.”

President Trump on Saturday spent time on the golf course, dispelling rumors that health issues were keeping the president out of the public eye. He was spotted at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., after his schedule was void of public events for several days in a row. The empty agenda set off a…
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President Trump cast doubt on the prospects of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as part of an effort to end the war in Eastern Europe, suggesting that “maybe they have to fight a little longer.”  The president, in an interview with The Daily Caller, expressed confidence that a…
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China’s carmakers were responsible for 21 percent of global sales in 2024, according to consulting group AlixPartners. They are projected to account for 30 percent in 2030.   China, already the world’s largest automobile market, “has overtaken Detroit as the center of the global auto industry,” writes the New York Times. The country’s manufacturers are not stopping there, however.…
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) has not yet received word about the Trump administration’s plans to send federal immigration enforcement officers and agents to Chicago after Labor Day, which the Democrat on Friday called “offensive.” But the lack of official notice from the White House about what is expected to be a multi-agency federal deployment…
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