Month: August 2025

The vice president spoke about President Donald Trump’s health amid speculation over his well-being.

An Israeli strike on Yemen earlier this week killed the prime minister of the Houthi-controlled government and several other officials, according to the Iran-backed rebel group.  Ahmed al-Rahawi, the prime minister and most senior Houthi official, was killed in a Thursday Israeli attack in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, the group said in a statement…
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has previously talked about “interdimensional beings” and evidence of technology created by “energy things” in the past.

National Political Correspondent Maggie Haberman said the latest appeals court ruling on President Trump’s sweeping tariffs represents a “big blow” to the Trump administration’s agenda. “This is the one that a lot of people who follow trade issues have been concerned about and is the outcome that they anticipated, frankly,” Haberman told CNN’s Jake Tapper…
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Attorney General Pam Bondi ousted a Justice Department (DOJ) staffer for “inappropriate conduct” toward National Guard troops who are deployed to patrol the nation’s capital amid President Trump’s federal police takeover. “Today, I took action to terminate a DOJ employee for inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members in DC. @TheJusticeDept remains committed to defending…
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Earlier this year President Trump dealt another blow to the civil service with an executive order establishing a new “Schedule G” classification expanding the number of political appointments in federal agencies. The Trump administration argues that these non-career, policy-making appointees will ensure the faithful execution of its agenda. Critics — still reeling from the mass…
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The U.S. approved a nearly $330 million package of military sales to Ukraine, including an extension of satellite communications services for its Starlink terminals and equipment and services to sustain its Patriot air defense systems. The State Department revealed in a statement Friday that services to help maintain the Patriot systems will cost about $179.1…
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Russia launched another “massive” aerial attack overnight Saturday, hitting Ukraine in an assault that killed at least one and wounded dozens of others.  The latest drone and missile attack struck the southern and central regions of war-torn Ukraine. In Zaporizhzhia, one woman was killed and 28 other people were injured, according to local officials.  The…
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President Trump on Friday condemned a federal appeals court decision that rejected the administration’s claims that the president’s emergency powers justify his sweeping tariff agenda. The ruling affirmed a lower court opinion that the tariffs were not authorized under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a post on Truth Social, Trump defended the…
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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said Friday that the estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will hand over the infamous “birthday book” and other documents early next month.  “The estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they…
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Trump has taken an unusually personal interest in redecorating the iconic seat of the American presidency.

A federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from expediting deportations amid President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ruled that the administration’s moves to speed up the removal of undocumented migrants without appearing before a judge stood in the way of individual due process rights. “In defending this…
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The way your letters slant or curve and the direction of your pen strokes can reveal a lot about your personality, according to graphologists.

The California governor is utilizing a particular strategy in his relentless attacks on Trump, and professors of political science have thoughts.

The move is a setback for the administration’s efforts to expand the use of the federal expedited removal statute.

Jennifer Welch broke down how the MAGA agenda has “hurt” those in red states like hers.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller will reportedly no longer appear before the House Oversight Committee due to health issues after House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) requested his presence to provide testimony on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal activity, according to a recent report. “The committee intends to withdraw its subpoena,” a source told…
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Terry Moran explained how network news is “failing” to meet the moment.

Democrats swiftly expressed outrage as Missouri’s House Minority Leader Ashley Aune calling Gov. Mike Kehoe a “Trump puppet” looking to steal a congressional seat for the GOP.

The White House quickly named a new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out Director Susan Monarez this week. Jim O’Neill, a senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official with deep ties to President Trump donor Peter Thiel,…
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Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) has called for a special session for the state Legislature to address redistricting, queuing it up to potentially be the next state to redraw its congressional district lines.  Kehoe announced his decision Friday in a release, saying the Legislature will convene Wednesday and unveil his map proposal. As expected, the…
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French President Emmanuel Macron issued a reminder Friday of President Trump’s deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “If that doesn’t happen by Monday, the deadline set by President Trump, it means that once again President Putin played President Trump,” Macron said Friday during a joint press conference…
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A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Trump’s assertion that emergency powers justify his worldwide tariffs, a blow to his efforts to refashion global trade.  In a 7-4 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the tariffs were not authorized by the statute Trump cited…
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The case is widely is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The state of Florida could lose $218 million after a judge ordered the closure of the “Alligator Alcatraz,” a detention facility based in the Everglades that was once a remove training airport. The site was created with funding from the Florida Division of Emergency Management and was quickly retrofitted to house individuals detained for federal…
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