Month: August 2025

The European Union’s (EU) top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “laughing” at President Trump’s efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.  Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said the president’s push to end the conflict in Eastern Europe is “welcome,” but that the Russian leader is…
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Third Way, a prominent center-left think tank, is aiming to shape the way Democrats speak to voters as they try to counter President Trump’s agenda, including avoiding words such as “birthing person,” “cisgender,” “the unhoused” and “Latinx.” “In reality, most Democrats do not run or govern on wildly out-of-touch social positions,” the group alleged in…
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The White House on Thursday unveiled a list of 20 Smithsonian exhibits the Trump administration alleges are being used to frame historical events through “ideological” narratives instead of factual evidence. Items categorized as unacceptable include an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Latino that portrays the U.S. as stolen land and characterizes U.S.…
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Some of the highest-profile arrests during the D.C. “crime emergency” are of immigrants — especially delivery workers for companies like DoorDash.

Russia is not ready to agree to a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Moscow’s top diplomat. “Putin is ready to meet with Zelensky when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told NBC News’s Kristen Welker…
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke on the economy Friday morning in Wyoming as President Trump continues to prod the nation’s central bank for interest rate cuts. Powell, after announcing in July that the Fed would keep rates steady for the fifth straight month, justified the decision by pointing to a “strong” jobs report and…
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I have previously attributed the troubling rise of national political polarization to the erosion of the middle class — a deep concern of thinkers as far removed in time and space as Aristotle and James Madison.  But what about the link between the rise of polarization and the concentration of power in the person of the president? James…
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President Trump sent a warning to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) early Friday, threatening to extend the federal takeover of local police in the nation’s capital citing “inaccurate” crime reporting data. “Washington, D.C. is SAFE AGAIN! The crowds are coming back, the spirit is high, and our D.C. National Guard and Police are doing a…
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The president laid it on thick about his embattled attorney general.

The FBI reportedly raided the home of former national security adviser John Bolton, who has been a vocal critic of Trump and the White House, early Friday. The search, two sources told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation, is related to classified documents. GOP state lawmakers in Texas are also slated to approve new voting maps…
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Alina Habba, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, knocked Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday, after a federal judge ruled she lacks the authority to serve as the Garden State’s top federal prosecutor.  “Number one, I was the nominee to become the U.S. attorney. And [Democratic New Jersey Sens.] Cory Booker and Andy Kim,…
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Federal agents raided the Washington-area home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning. FBI Director Kash Patel wrote “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission” in a post on X at 7 a.m. EDT, shortly before the New York Post broke the news of the raid.  The…
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The California governor spelled out his serious reason for mimicking the president.

No matter how much President Trump is working to remove any mention of Jeffrey Epstein from the front pages, time is working against him.  When Congress returns in a few short weeks, after some members spent the August recess having to answer angry questions from constituents about why the administration refuses to release the oft-promised…
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A widening battle for control of the U.S. central bank, considered an anchor institution of the global financial system, seems to already be underway.

The animated satire has been boldly calling out the president’s administration in real time as other entities have cowered.

When President Trump sat down for a high-stakes meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, there were two men by his side: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff. When Trump phoned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders from Air Force One after the meeting, it was Witkoff and Rubio sitting nearby…
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Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) is taking a novel approach to selling the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” in his district: Using his official office funds on a slick digital video ad campaign to promote key tax pieces of the legislation. One 30-second ad launching Friday, first previewed to The Hill, features waitress Erika Pirtle from Whisky…
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“There is no silver lining,” one analyst told the newspaper.

He also brought up the subject earlier this week during another interview.

The acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey made two eye-popping claims in a matter of seconds.

“I think we’re abusing the term a little bit too much.”

In the most detailed Russian-based reporting to date on Putin’s offer at the summit, Reuters was able to outline the contours of what the Kremlin would like to see in a possible peace deal.

The president’s strangest boast yet lights up social media.

The former MSNBC host summed up the White House press secretary’s time on the job to “perfection.”