Month: September 2025

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Sunday called Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “joke” amid turmoil in Kennedy’s own department. “You looked at that appearance before Congress, and it just confirms what all of us around this table have known for decades: Robert F Kennedy Jr. is…
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Count billionaire Ken Griffin as one of those in the business community questioning President Trump’s hostility toward the Federal Reserve. Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel and a supporter of the president, criticized Trump’s “interventions” in central bank policy in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Sunday.  “While the U.S. benefits from a large stock of credibility accumulated…
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One American studies professor weighs in on the response to Trump and why reports that the U.S. Tennis Association made efforts to suppress crowd reactions is concerning.

The Trump administration is escalating its immigration operations in Democratic cities in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling giving the government the ability to conduct immigration stops based on an individual’s ethnicity or whether they speak Spanish. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday morning announced “Operation Patriot 2.0” in Massachusetts and announced…
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“I don’t know if I used the right terminology,” the House speaker confessed.

The large-scale Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at the Hyundai manufacturing plant in Georgia on Thursday has been touted by members of the Trump administration as the most ambitious enforcement action yet of President Trump’s tenure. But the raid — which saw hundreds of mostly South Korean citizens detained — has placed a strain…
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Lawmakers are laying the groundwork for making sure the other party gets the blame in the event of a government shutdown at the end of the month. As both sides work out a game plan for funding the government before a Sept. 30 deadline, lawmakers have increasingly been trading insults and pointing fingers over who…
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President Trump’s international economic policies crashed into each over the weekend, when hundreds of South Korea workers were arrested by U.S. immigration officials at a Hyundai factory in Georgia only weeks after the two countries announced a new trade arrangement that was hailed by both sides. Trump’s immigration crackdown has largely focused on the U.S. southern border and has…
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House Oversight Democrats on Monday swiftly released the image and message President Trump allegedly wrote as a birthday present to Jeffrey Epstein, revealing a drawing the White House has denied existed. The image was released by the panel’s Democrats just minutes after Epstein’s estate turned over records subpoenaed by the committee, including a so-called birthday book…
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sought to clarify Monday his comments that spread widely last week about President Trump being an “FBI informant” against the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting he misspoke about the president’s efforts to assist law enforcement as it investigated the wealthy financier. “I don’t know if I used the right…
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The House Oversight Committee obtained the material from Epstein’s estate via subpoena.

The Epstein estate on Monday turned over a tranche of documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee, including at least one purporting to show a close relationship between the late sex offender and President Trump before he entered politics. The records include the 2003 “birthday book,” including a lewd entry allegedly written by President Trump when…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to punch Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte during a heated confrontation at a private dinner attended by administration officials and close advisers to President Trump, according to a report from Politico. The exchange between two top economic officials took place at the inaugural dinner at Executive Branch, an…
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Considering that homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women in the U.S., it’s no wonder that people were outraged.

(NewsNation) — Postal shipments to the U.S. are down 80% after President Donald Trump ended the de minimis exemption that made lower-value shipments exempt from tariffs. The data comes from the UN agency, the Universal Postal Union, which also noted that 88 shipping providers around the globe have completely or partially suspended shipping to the…
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King Charles III has big plans for President Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom later this month, according to British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson. “The King is going to roll out the red carpet for President Trump,” Mandelson told Breitbart News in a recent interview. “I think the entire thing … is…
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When the Framers designed our government, they built in checks and balances for a reason: to make sure no one branch becomes too powerful. But Donald Trump has treated that system less like a guardrail and more like a speed bump. He’s not just bending the rules — he’s trampling Congress’s constitutional authority.   Time and…
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You’ll want your sound turned up all the way up for this one! Turns out tennis fans don’t have much love for President Donald Trump.

One of the billionaire’s investments has become a linchpin in the day-to-day machinery of Trump’s immigration enforcement apparatus.

Two-thirds of Americans say the Federal Reserve should make decisions independently from President Trump’s influence, according to the latest CBS News/YouGov poll. The survey, conducted in early September, shows 68 percent of Americans support the Fed’s independence from Trump, while 32 percent say it’s best if the Fed makes its decisions guided by what Trump…
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Writing from Paris, I ponder the notion that, next year, America celebrates its first quarter of a millennium as a republic since declaring independence in 1776. But the more profound and unaddressed question is whether or not America will remain a republic for the next 250 years.   The reasons for this pessimism rest in several…
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The president appeared to make light of domestic violence during an event at a Bible museum.

A new HuffPost investigation explores the links between Bill Gates, his foundation’s trust and an aviation company that Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to ferry detainees across the country.

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a judge’s limits on Los Angeles-area immigration stops based on a person speaking Spanish or working in a certain profession.  The Trump administration urged the high court for the emergency intervention, calling the order a “straitjacket” on enforcement efforts in an epicenter of the president’s immigration crackdown. The ruling appeared…
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