Month: September 2025

“He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down,” Speaker Mike Johnson said while discussing Donald Trump and the Epstein case.

President Trump ordered the removal of the White House Peace Vigil on Friday, marking an end to a 44-year protest against the nation’s nuclear weaponry and warfare.  A reporter informed the president of the ongoing protest — now manned by Philipos Melaku-Bello and a group of rotating volunteers — Friday in the Oval Office, describing…
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 August job growth fell short of expectations, and even health care, the steadiest source of new jobs, lost steam. U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs last month as unemployment rose to 4.3 percent, the Labor Department said Friday — well below economists’ forecast of 80,000 and July’s gain of 79,000. Health care has fueled hiring…
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It’s the latest self-inflicted setback for prosecutors during the President’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital.

The proposed optional patch was meant to represent “unity” and “respect” among the community, which includes a large Arab American population.

President Trump expressed reservations Friday about Florida moving to eliminate school vaccine mandates, calling it a “very tough position” and arguing some vaccines are uncontroversial. “I think we have to be very careful. You have some vaccines that are so amazing,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, citing the polio vaccine and the COVID-19…
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Related Video: Weak August Jobs Report Flashes Major Warning Sign For Economy – 12:30 Report President Trump confirmed Friday that his top three candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are Kevin Hassett, Kevin Warsh and Christopher Waller. Trump was asked by a reporter with Bloomberg News if his top three candidates were Hassett,…
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One social media user said, “If you’ve spent the last decade begging for a Nobel Peace Prize,” rebranding the Defense Department as the Department of War is “not exactly a winning strategy.”

96 <!– {beacon} Technology Technology <!–   The Big Story  Trump lashes out at EU over tech fines President Trump on Friday slammed the European Union’s (EU) fines against major U.S. tech firms as “discriminatory actions” and threatened to start a trade investigation, opening the door to additional tariffs.  © AP Photo/Alex Brandon Trump lashed out at the…
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Friday India will likely resume trade negotiations with the United States in two months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi began leveraging his relationship with Russia and China due to the onset of new tariffs from President Trump. “I think, yes, in a month or two months, I think India’s going…
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is challenging President Trump to follow up his executive order to rename the Defense Department the “War Department” with a bigger increase in the Pentagon’s budget to deter threats from China, Russia and other adversaries. “If we call it the Department of War,…
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Former Obama administration adviser and CNN political commentator Van Jones on Thursday slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for “making America sicker again” by encouraging the dismantling of vaccine requirements. Prior to his Senate confirmation, Kennedy launched the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda in an effort to weed out chronic…
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A trial over President Trump’s attempted assassination as he golfed in south Florida last year is set to begin Monday, where the man accused of plotting the political hit is expected to defend his own case.   Ryan Routh, the defendant, faces five criminal charges including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate. If convicted, he…
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President Trump on Friday slammed the European Union’s (EU) fines against major U.S. tech firms as “discriminatory actions” and threatened to open a trade investigation, opening the door to additional tariffs.  Trump lashed out at the European bloc after it imposed a $3.5 billion fine against Google for violating antitrust rules, accusing it of “effectively…
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Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) on Friday called for his uncle, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to resign amid concerns about vaccine misinformation and his attacks on public health officials. “Robert Kennedy Jr. is a threat to the health and wellbeing of every American. A United States Secretary of Health…
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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is seeking personal financial disclosure forms from President Trump’s former campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski, who now works at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a senior adviser. “The lack of this public financial disclosure undermines transparency and erodes public…
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California Rep. Ro Khanna (D) on Thursday suggested President Trump launch a mayoral campaign due to his repeated involvement in local conflicts across the country.  “I wonder if President Trump ran for the wrong job because he seems to really want to be mayor. I mean, if he really wants to deal with the streets,…
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LIVE Video: Eric Adams makes ‘important announcement’ on future of his campaign New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Friday he plans to keep up his reelection campaign amid chatter about a possible Trump administration position, though he suggested he’s open to hearing about other opportunities to serve the country.  “Serving New Yorkers as their…
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President Trump is slated to give remarks from the Oval Office on Friday related to his push to rebrand the Defense Department as the “Department of War.” Trump is expected to sign an executive order to revert the department to a previous label, after signaling in recent weeks he believes it better reflects the Pentagon’s offensive…
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The White House doesn’t need approval from the commission that vets most federal building projects before President Trump begins his massive ballroom project, the head of the panel told members this week. “It is in fact the case that this commission does not have jurisdiction — and it has long denied that it has jurisdiction…
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Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said he thinks Republicans will gain three House seats after Texas’s controversial redistricting, not the five President Trump is hoping for. Trump asked Texas Republicans to draw new districts to net five more Republican seats ahead of next year’s midterm elections. The GOP targeted two seats in South Texas — Cuellar’s…
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There may be fewer foreign-born workers, but the anti-immigrant talking point relies on dubious data.

Trump’s quest to claim all power for himself is drastically reshaping not just his presidency, but American democracy writ large.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is pushing back on comments made by a senior official in a hidden-camera video recorded and published by far-right operative James O’Keefe in which the official weighs in on the case of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Joseph Schnitt, a deputy chief of staff at the Office of…
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The new deployment comes on top of an already bristling U.S. military presence in the southern Caribbean that includes at least seven warships.