Month: August 2025

It’s the fifth time this year that the Government Accountability Office has determined the administration defied Congress on spending.

He said a farmer told him that migrants don’t get “bad backs,” because “if they get a bad back, they die.”

The alleged debate over releasing them comes after Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security prison without explanation.

The Pentagon has waded into the discourse around an American Eagle ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney that has recently sparked controversy. “@secdef has great jeans,” the Pentagon said in a Monday post on the social platform X, featuring a photo of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wearing jeans. The ad campaign featuring Sweeney has…
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) met Tuesday with President Trump at the White House to raise concerns about the effects the president’s tariff policy is having on her state. Whitmer met with Trump for the third time this year, a rare instance of a prominent Democrat reaching out directly to the president. In addition to…
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It’s wild to watch this administration experience the limitations of its own narratives about “the enemy.”

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — On Monday the Texas House officially came to a standstill, as over fifty Democratic House members fled the state to prevent the House from getting the 100 members needed to convene. Their primary intention is to stop the redrawing of Texas’ U.S. Congressional map, a map President Donald Trump hopes will flip…
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Larry Kudlow, a leading host on Fox News and a former director of the National Economic Council during President Trump’s first term, slammed one of the nation’s largest banks after the president alleged it turned away his business after he left the White House in 2020. “Now the banks will tell you — and I’ve talked…
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President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday afternoon to establish a task force ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games. The games will be held in Los Angeles, the first Olympics to be hosted in the U.S. since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Trump earlier this year signed another…
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Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley questioned President Trump’s trade moves with China and India on Tuesday, warning the U.S. shouldn’t “burn” its relationship with India. “India should not be buying oil from Russia. But China, an adversary and the number one buyer of Russian and Iranian oil, got a 90-day tariff pause,” Haley wrote…
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Conservative pundit Megyn Kelly knocked singer-songwriter Beyoncé over a new ad campaign promoting Levi jeans. “This is the opposite of the Sydney Sweeney ad. Quite clearly there is nothing natural about Beyonce,” Kelly wrote in a post on the social platform X. “Everything — from her image to her fame to her success to her…
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Rep. Don Bacon (Neb.), a moderate Republican, said he’s concerned about the U.S. economy, noting his state saw a 6 percent annual drop in real gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2025. In an interview with CNN’s Phil Mattingly, Bacon pointed to the recent jobs data and the latest round of tariffs…
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The Trump administration has ended the practice of asking federal workers to outline what they accomplished over the last week in five bullet points, which was started at the direction of former special adviser Elon Musk. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had overseen the responses, which have largely been phased out at various agencies,…
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A toppled statue dedicated to the memory of Confederate officer Albert Pike will soon be reinstalled in Washington, D.C., according to the Department of Interior.  The statue will be back in Judiciary Square by October, according to The Washington Post, which first reported the move. It comes a year ahead of the nation’s 250th founding…
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Musk received a warm sendoff from Trump, but then incurred the president’s wrath by describing Trump’s tax cut and spending bill as an abomination.

The big field in the race for the 2028 presidential sweepstakes is already off and running. Two of the top Democrats vying for the job are former Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The election of either one would address the urgency of putting a woman in the White House for the…
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And it may prove more trouble than it is worth for Donald Trump.

Transportation Secretary and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy outlined the space agency’s fast-track plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon on Tuesday. “We’re in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon. And to have a base on the moon, we need energy. And some of the key…
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India fired back at the United States after President Trump pledged to increase tariffs on New Delhi over the country’s purchase of Russian oil. In a statement Monday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the purchase of Russian oil is a “necessity” to “ensure predictable and affordable energy costs” and was once “encouraged” by…
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The MSNBC host envisioned an ominous quid-pro-quo involving convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and President Donald Trump.

Jeanine Pirro, the newly confirmed U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has set her sight on targeting illegal firearm trafficking and immigration laws in Washington.  Pirro was confirmed in a 50-45 vote by the Senate along party lines Saturday. Before being approved for the post, Pirro signaled she would oversee an intense crackdown on…
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Russia announced on Monday that it will no longer be bound by a self-imposed restriction on the deployment of short- and medium-range nuclear missiles, pointing to efforts by the U.S. and its allies to develop and deploy similar weapons systems in Europe and Asia.  “Since our repeated warnings in this regard have been ignored and…
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The president’s put-down of the rising Democratic star during a CNBC interview took an unlikely turn.

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to be placed on house arrest for the remainder of his ongoing trial. Bolsonaro is facing legal repercussions for allegedly staging a coup to upend his 2022 election loss to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Justice Alexandre de Moraes accused Bolsonaro, who is…
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“Squawk Box” host Joe Kernen reminded the president that he’s not as popular as he claims he is.