Month: September 2025

Becoming a parent is scary and exciting — but it shouldn’t be stressful because of powerful people telling you things that simply aren’t facts.   This week, former President Barack Obama accused President Trump of committing what he called “violence against the truth” — and honestly, that phrase stopped me in my tracks. Because when it…
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Google admitted earlier this week that its COVID-era censorship policies were enacted at the explicit behest of the Biden administration, and the company now says it will allow any content creator that was silenced for this reason to return to YouTube. This is a massive win for free speech, as well as an acknowledgement that…
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New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani holds a 20-point lead over his closest opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a Suffolk University CityView poll released this week. The survey, which includes likely voters in November’s general election, shows Mamdani in the lead with 45 percent support, followed by Cuomo with 25…
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“‘Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time,’ doesn’t exactly scream innocence,” one social media user noted.

The “Tonight Show” host took the president’s paranoia to another level.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Thursday backed President Trump’s call for member countries to shoot down Russian planes that enter their airspace but suggested they should only do so once they’ve exhausted other options. In an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Brian Kilmeade asked Rutte whether he agrees with Trump, who told a…
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A proposal to brand a new type of federal Pell Grant as “Trump Grants” has sparked pushback from Rhode Island lawmakers who want the program to retain the name of its creator — the state’s longest-serving U.S. senator. The name change is currently tucked inside a House spending bill for the U.S. Departments…
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It seems fending off illegal immigrants today is no longer enough. Asserting that the H-1B visas for high-skilled foreign workers have been “deliberately exploited to replace” American workers, President Trump’s Sept. 19 executive order slaps a slew of restrictions — including a $100,000 fee — on newly issued visas. With an overwhelming majority of the…
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President Trump welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the White House on Thursday. The world leaders are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine. Trump also said he hopes to see Turkey stop its purchase of Russian energy. The meeting was scheduled to begin at 11:15 a.m. EDT. Watch video coverage above.

Elon Musk’s xAI will offer Grok to federal agencies for 42 cents each, becoming the latest company to provide its artificial intelligence models to the government at a steep discount.  Agencies will be able to access Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fast, xAI’s latest models, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced Thursday. The offer will…
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that Hamas will have no role in governing a postwar Gaza Strip, virtually addressing the United Nations General Assembly after the Trump administration blocked visas for the Palestinian delegation.  Abbas further rejected Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack against Israel, while condemning Israel’s continued war in Gaza and policies…
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U.S. fighter jets scrambled Wednesday to intercept four Russian warplanes off the coast of Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Thursday. NORAD said in a statement it detected and tracked four Russian military jets — two Tu-95s and two Su-35s — on Wednesday operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), a…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a recent interview suggested Kremlin officials will need to locate bomb shelters if Russia does not end its military operation in Ukraine.  “First of all, they have to know where their bomb shelters are,” Zelensky told Axios’s Barak Ravid in a clip released early Thursday. “They need it. If they…
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Former President Obama criticized President Trump’s claims linking the use of Tylenol to autism as “violence against the truth,” warning it could harm pregnant women and families with children who are autistic. “We have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously…
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Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) announced Thursday she would introduce articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. due to “health care chaos” under his watch. On social platform X, Stevens wrote, “Health care chaos. Reckless cuts. Rising costs. Michiganders and families across the country are paying the price for RFK…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appeared to delete a video featuring internet personality Theo Von from its social media page after the podcast host objected to being included in the post without his consent. In the video, posted Tuesday, Von was seen looking into the camera and saying, “I heard you got deported, dude.…
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he’s “very concerned” about controversial claims made by President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that Tylenol, a common over-the-counter pain medication, is linked to “very increased risk of autism,” despite the lack of clear scientific evidence showing a causal relationship. “I’m…
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Jimmy Kimmel used his second monologue back from his suspension to bash “bully” Donald Trump.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is hammering President Trump’s budget director for promising mass firings if the government shuts down. Jeffries said the threat from Russell Vought, the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), won’t cow Democrats into supporting a GOP spending bill they deem a danger to public health. He…
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Democrats are probing the actions of three law firms that signed deals with President Trump, asking why they are doing pro bono work for the Commerce Department. Paul Weiss, Kirkland and Ellis, and Skadden Arps were among those that signed deals with the White House to do millions in pro bono work for causes favored…
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Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Liberal media bias is real. And despite what his critics scream on social media, Donald Trump is not Hitler, and he’s not a Nazi. But let’s also acknowledge something else that’s true: Donald Trump believes in free speech — for himself. Not for you. Not for me. And certainly not…
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CNN political commentator Van Jones on Wednesday said Democrats are not fans of former FBI Director James Comey but suggested that pursuing charges against him could backfire on the Trump administration. In an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” the former Obama administration adviser compared the situation to the short-lived suspension of late night TV…
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Vice President Vance argued Wednesday that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr was not serious when he suggested last week that comedian Jimmy Kimmel be taken off the air over comments the host made about the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. “What people will say is, ‘Well, you know, didn’t the FCC commissioner put…
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HuffPost won’t back down — but we need your support.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late night on Tuesday earned him his largest television audience in more than a decade, ABC announced on Wednesday. “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” this week netted more than 6 million viewers on linear broadcast, according to Nielsen Media Research data, despite the show being preempted in what the network said was…
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