Month: August 2025

“Dear God,” one person wrote after seeing President Donald Trump’s drastic overhaul of the once-green space.

As tech companies race to power data centers to support artificial intelligence services, some Americans are reporting spikes in their electricity bills. The Trump administration recently released an “AI Action Plan,” which vowed to expedite permitting for the construction of energy-intensive data centers. During the unveiling of the plan, President Trump acknowledged the growing need…
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President Trump’s plans to add a massive $200 million ballroom to the White House is angering critics, who see him moving forward with the long-sought project as part of his desire to leave a lasting mark not only on the office of the presidency but the first house as well. The construction of the ballroom,…
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A federal appeals court upheld a lower ruling on Friday barring the Trump administration from solely considering race, language or employment as reasonable suspicion to detain migrants. Their decision blocks Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials from conducting “indiscriminate immigration operations” as alleged by the plaintiffs in court filings.  A group of five immigrants and…
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Trump has recently attacked Powell as a “stubborn MORON” and “a knucklehead.”

Statisticians railed against President Trump on Friday following his decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer for “inaccuracies” and “incompetence” after presenting a low job growth report for the month of July.  Former BLS chief William Beach slammed the “totally groundless” rebuke alongside the Friends of BLS, an organization that advocates…
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(NEXSTAR) — Earlier this summer, the cost of a Forever stamp rose five cents, marking the largest price increase the U.S. has seen on first-class mail. You may want to stock up now, especially with additional price hikes already on the horizon.  The latest increase, which took effect on July 13, marked a 7.4 percent…
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SAN ANGELO, Texas (KLST/NEXSTAR) – Critics of the President Trump’s immigration and economic agenda will be “raging against the regime” this weekend during protests in cities nationwide. Saturday’s “Rage Against the Regime” protests, organized by volunteers of the 50501 movement, are being held in response to what the group describes as a number of “threats”…
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A federal appeals court on Friday sided with the Trump administration, lifting a temporary block on a March executive order that prevented government workers from union bargaining.  The three judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the plaintiffs argument alleging Trump issued the order on the basis of retaliation. Instead, the panel…
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Criticism is mounting after President Trump moved to oust the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday following a dismal jobs report. Trump accused BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer, an appointee of former President Biden, of skewing job numbers in the latest report, which showed the U.S. adding only 73,000 jobs last month…
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On Monday, President Trump set a new 10 to 12-day ultimatum for President Vladimir Putin to enter peace talks over Ukraine or face a new tariff regime intended to halt global sales of Russian energy products.  Trump is promising a 100 percent “secondary tariff” on any country that imports Russian energy products, targeting India, China, Turkey and others. He’s right to…
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President Trump said he hasn’t been asked to pardon disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell or former Rep. Geroge Santos (R-N.Y.), adding that he likely would not give a pardon to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. The president was asked about the three individuals serving prison sentences in a Newsmax interview that aired on…
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President Trump, who has waffled back-and-forth in recent weeks over whether he would move to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, signaled Friday that the move was unlikely. In an interview with Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty, Trump said he is not likely to fire Powell before his term is up in May 2026, despite criticizing the…
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President Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) are making slow progress toward a deal to clear some of the Senate’s backlog of executive branch nominees to allow weary senators to leave Washington for the four-week August recess. Walking off the darkened Senate floor at 10 pm Friday,…
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Friday slammed the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for a series of reports on job growth he deemed inaccurate. The longtime Trump adviser said the BLS had an “unsettling pattern” of presenting the public with the wrong information.  “The BLS doesn’t seem to be able to get that…
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“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary on Friday criticized President Trump for proposing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head be fired after reporting a decline in job growth.  Hours before his comments, Trump slammed Commissioner Erika McEntarfer in a Truth Social post alleging she altered job reports to favor former Vice President Harris during the…
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Charlamagne tha God shared a soft endorsement for Jon Stewart in an interview set to be published on Saturday after discouraging former Vice President Harris from launching another White House bid in 2028.  “I would love to see Jon Stewart run in 2028,” Charlamagne told Fox News’s Lara Trump.  “If we’re talking about like a…
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The far-right activist, who holds no government position, predicts there will be “hundreds” more firings.

96 <!– sup, sub { font-size: 100% !important; } sup { mso-text-raise:10% } sub { mso-text-raise:-10% } Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!–   The Big Story  Trump axes labor statistics chief after bad jobs report President Trump ordered the firing of the commissioner of…
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President Trump’s economic pitch took a serious hit Friday after the latest federal jobs report revealed stunning weakness in the labor market. He responded by firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for what he called politically motivated revisions that lobbed off hundreds of thousands of job gains earlier this summer. The…
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One professor in public humanities breaks down why the president’s latest attack on Harris is a “strategy.”

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, an ally of President Trump, scored a Friday win after the country’s lawmakers passed constitutional amendments eradicating term limits.  The measure was passed in a 57-3 vote just one year after Bukele broke with the law setting term limits by saying he would seek a second term as president.  The…
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President Trump on Friday accused the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer of faking jobs numbers, directing his team to fire the former President Biden appointee.  Trump blamed McEntarfer for the bad Friday jobs report, showing that the country added 258,000 fewer jobs in May and June than previously reported.  The…
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced it will no longer accept government funds due to “recent changes in federal funding laws and regulations.”

“There is absolutely no chance that the BLS commissioner manipulated the jobs and unemployment data to hurt Donald Trump,” a former labor official says.