Month: September 2025

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Illinois on Tuesday for providing in-state tuition and scholarships to immigrant students without permanent legal status. The complaint, filed in the Southern District of Illinois, alleges the state is in violation of federal law for allowing these benefits to go to undocumented students but not all U.S.…
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The Trump administration is considering declaring a national housing crisis as the real estate market struggles to reach stable ground, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed. “We may declare a national housing emergency in the fall,” Bessent told the Washington Examiner in an interview published Monday. If issued, the declaration would constitut President Trump’s ninth national…
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Venezuela is at “maximum preparedness” in light of the U.S. military bolstering its maritime force in the Caribbean to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said. “In the face of this maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum preparedness for the defense of Venezuela,” Maduro said on Monday during a…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the Trump administration has a wide array of backup plans to impose tariffs on foreign trading partners if the Supreme Court strikes down the rates set under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). “I’m confident the Supreme Court will … uphold the president’s authority to use IEEPA,”…
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Richard Besser, former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Monday called Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “major ideologue” amid turmoil at the CDC. “And now with the loss of leadership and secretary of Health who came in not just with policy differences, but he‘s…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Tuesday that Moscow has never been against Ukraine joining the European Union (EU) but reiterated that the country’s potential ascension into NATO is “unacceptable.”  “As for Ukraine’s membership of the EU, we have never objected to this,” Putin said while in China, according to Reuters.  “As for NATO, this is…
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MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough suggested that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) work with President Trump to fight crime in Chicago. “I actually think that JB Pritzker should do something radical,” Scarborough said on his morning talk show on MSNBC on Tuesday. “I think he should pick up the phone, call the president and say, you know and, ‘I…
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Putin says the Trump administration is listening to the Kremlin’s justifications for its invasion of Ukraine.

Eric Trump, the son of President Trump, said he would “never” rule out a White House bid after speaking at the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong.  “I’m not saying no, but I’m also not saying yes,” Eric Trump told Nikkei Asia in an interview published Sunday. His comments come a month after his wife, Lara…
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Former Biden administration aide Meghan Hays on Monday argued the Trump administration is not being “transparent” about President Trump’s absence from public events in recent days, citing potential health concerns. “I think in August he spent 26 days doing public events or talking to press. So, to go down for six days and just have…
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Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said on Monday that there is “enormous pressure” to release all the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.  “I think that when we return, there’ll be enormous pressure again for the Epstein files to be made public. I think this, well, I have not talked…
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President Trump frequently threatens “severe consequences” if adversaries and competitors do not yield to his negotiating demands. But some of his international opponents seem to have concluded that he is mostly posturing and have called his bluff — without paying a price.   The prime example is the series of deadlines Trump has imposed on…
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A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that National Guard troops ran afoul of the law in Los Angeles when President Trump deployed them in June after immigration protests that turned violent.  U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled their actions violated an 1878 law that generally bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement.   …
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Federal takeovers may have just become a lot harder for Trump to pull off.

Ironically, the president who campaigned on “making America great again” is taking aim at the very foundations of what makes the U.S. economy truly great.  Indeed, in recent weeks, the Trump administration has taken — or discussed taking — multiple actions that threaten to jam up America’s economic engine.   As midterms approach, Trump’s corporate statism…
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Video surfaced over the weekend of Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) being heckled at a townhall event in Houston, which the Texas Republican said was evidence of “leftists” disrupting his event and annoying his constituents. The protesters criticized Crenshaw for voting for last summer’s “big, beautiful bill” because of its cuts to Medicaid, and called on…
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The House and Senate returned to Washington on Tuesday after a monthlong August recess and are racing against the clock as the government shutdown deadline approaches. Republican leadership left Capitol Hill earlier this summer on a high note following the passage of President Trump’s landmark tax and spending bill. But now the lower chamber must…
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President Trump wants poor people to stay in jail when they are arrested, while still presumed innocent, even if it takes months or years before their cases come to trial.  He didn’t exactly put it that way, of course. But that would be the inevitable consequence of his campaign against cashless bail. Trump announced an executive…
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) rebuked President Trump’s potential deployment of the National Guard to the Windy City, telling the crowd on Monday that the city’s leaders will “protect” the “humanity” of its residents. “No federal troops in the city of Chicago. No militarized force in the city of Chicago,” Johnson said during the “Workers…
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned his Democratic colleagues in a letter Tuesday of the growing chance of a government shutdown, declaring that “Republicans are once again threatening to go-at-it-alone” by not negotiating with Democrats on a stopgap spending measure. Schumer said the Trump administration is provoking a standoff over government funding by moving…
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“Is there such a thing?” the president asked.

Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed his “old friend” Russian President Vladimir Putin to China this week as the two leaders, along with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, are set to attend a massive military parade in Beijing.  Putin called Xi his “dear friend” and argued that the relationship between Russia and China, which has deepened…
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“I remember just being like, ‘Holy cow, this is crazy,’” said Joe Gebbia.

Donald Trump’s son has previously talked about a family dynasty.

The U.S. government this week is set to boost its maritime force in the waters off Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels.