Month: August 2025

“Making noise is resistance!” a Free DC activist said to cheers from protesters in front of D.C. police headquarters. “Making noise is freedom!”

The Treasury Department issued guidance Friday that narrows which wind and solar energy projects can receive the remaining tax credits that were largely eliminated under the Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill.” The legislation passed by Republicans last month axes the credits for projects that don’t begin producing electricity by 2028. However, it contains an exemption for…
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Years ago, the idea that women shouldn’t have the right to vote would have been seen as an absurd stance. Now, it can’t be dismissed as just right-wing nonsense.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said the Friday summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin signals “all is forgiven.” “He is standing with the most powerful person in the world, and it is a sign from Donald Trump, essentially, that all is forgiven,” Murphy said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And so,…
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Senate Democrats invoked an obscure statute requiring administration officials to turn over documents.

The Trump administration is seeking to sue California to try to halt the state from enforcing its effort to electrify its truck fleet. The administration filed motions to join existing cases against the state over its rules seeking to reduce pollution and planet-warming emissions from trucks. The moves come after the Trump administration axed California’s rules — but did so in…
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President Trump expressed gratitude that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had floated him for a Nobel Peace Prize if he were able to successfully negotiate an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine. “If he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the…
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A major name declined the award due to “scheduling conflicts.”

Pope Leo XIV prayed for an end to global conflicts Friday, the same day as a landmark meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed at brokering an end to the war in Ukraine. “We must not resign ourselves to the prevalence of the logic of armed conflict,” he said Friday, according to…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made his first visit to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as the acting commissioner Thursday, days after President Trump ousted Billy Long from the position. Bessent, who is the tax agency’s seventh commissioner this year, met with the leadership during which he discussed the modernization of the information technology systems within…
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D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb will give remarks following the first court hearing into the district’s lawsuit against the Trump administration amid President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital. Schwalb, a Democrat, sued Trump early Friday after the administration installed the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) head to command the city’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).…
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Daniel Dale said Thursday on “News Central” that the president’s recent statements are not only inaccurate but “a reversal of reality.”

President Trump landed in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday afternoon ahead of his highly anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin — their first face-to-face interaction since Trump’s first term. Trump said earlier Friday that he would not use the meeting as a platform to negotiate for Ukraine and threatened to “walk away” from the conversation if…
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The U.S. Secret Service will conduct a routine threat exercise at the White House between 8 p.m. and 1 a.m. Friday, as President Trump is out of town for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Secret Service warned that residents could hear simulated gunfire coming from the White House and should not be…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking at state laws with “out-of-state economic impacts” that could hinder the national economy and interstate commerce.  “Today, the Justice Department and the National Economic Council announce an effort to identify State laws that significantly and adversely affect the national economy or interstate economic activity and to solicit solutions…
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President Trump has taken an expansive view of his authority to levy tariffs in his second term trade war with nearly every U.S. trading partner.   Calling on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Trump administration has imposed tariffs at rates not seen since the 1930s, claiming to address a national emergency caused by fentanyl trafficked across…
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California Sen. Adam Schiff (D) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior Trump administration officials Thursday expressing “serious concern” about actions taken to increase the water flow of a lake in Ohio to allow Vice President Vance and his family better navigate a recreational kayaking trip. Schiff asked Hegseth, Adam…
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Actor Alec Baldwin on Friday condemned President Trump’s efforts to take over D.C.’s law enforcement. “What’s gonna happen next? Is Trump gonna federalize the New York City Police Department? What’s after that? Chicago, L.A., Miami, Boston, and on and on? What’s after that? The NFL? The NBA? Is he gonna federalize them to take them…
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“Real macho stuff,” the former secretary of state said.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) hit back at President Trump on Thursday in another tit-for-tat over Trump’s recent efforts to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., deploying the National Guard and asserting command over local police. “I don’t listen to criticism from chicken hawks, people who talk tough and try to utilize people in…
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On Aug. 4, the National Park Service announced that it will restore and reinstall the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike in Washington. This decision is yet another round in the ongoing fight over the American past. Trump and his supporters want to substitute a comprehensive U.S. history with a purely celebratory one. For the MAGA movement,…
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A new Pew Research Center polls finds just 38 percent of respondents approve of President Trump’s job performance compared to 41 percent two months ago. The worsening performance appears to be linked to disapproval of Trump’s tariff policies, and to some opposition to the “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law earlier this summer that extended Trump’s…
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman said it’s “notoriously hard” to prep the president to meet Vladimir Putin.

A band of Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to thwart President Trump’s takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department, arguing the White House is exceeding its authority. The resolution would terminate Trump’s Monday order, something the lawmakers say comes as “the President has concocted a false narrative around the city’s crime rates” which have been declining for two years,…
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FBI Director Kash Patel said early Friday that agents and the agency’s partner made 18 more arrests in Washington, D.C., overnight, bringing the total to 120 since President Trump announced federal officials were taking over the District’s police force.  “18 more arrests with federal partners last night in Washington DC. – 8 firearms recovered from…
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