Month: October 2025

More than 40 U.S. cities and states have sued oil companies in recent years, attempting to recover the costs of climate-related weather disasters and mitigation measures. Eleven states have passed “climate superfund laws” with the same goal.   President Trump calls these actions “ideologically motivated” and has told the Justice Department to fight them. He also…
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China called on President Trump to withdraw his latest tariff threat, warning that Beijing is prepared to retaliate if the U.S. president follows through with 100 percent tariffs. In a press conference Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian was asked how China will respond to the tariff threat, which Trump made in response to…
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He once again touted his foreign policy achievements in comments on Sunday.

Trump’s push to federalize troops “has no precedent,” one expert said.

Donald Trump’s 2016 rival is the spitting image of both, argued social media users.

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to capital punishment.  In September alone, 15 states sought the federal government’s support in their quest to increase the death penalty’s scope outside…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) insists she hasn’t changed, but the conservative firebrand’s deepening splits with her party on everything from Jeffrey Epstein to health care subsidies are puzzling and exasperating her fellow Republicans. Greene forged her political identity in Congress as a fierce Trump loyalist, defending the president and Jan. 6, 2021, protestors, and…
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The Oscar winner also slammed Donald Trump as a “would-be king who wants to take” democracy away.

Trump called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East during a global summit on Gaza’s future, trying to advance broader peace in the region after visiting Israel to celebrate a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Hamas.

The “emergency” nude protest ride was a “quintessentially Portland way to protest” the policies of the Trump administration, said one rider.

Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security also addressed the mockery of its boss.

The president attempted to rewrite the history of a scandal in which he was not even involved.

Israel and Hamas were locked in tense, albeit indirect, negotiations over the list of Palestinian prisoners to be freed.

Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked the president about his afterlife prospects.

The layoffs still impact 600 now-former CDC staff members.

Israel and Hamas moved ahead on a key first step of the tenuous Gaza ceasefire agreement by freeing hostages and prisoners, raising hopes that the U.S.-brokered deal might lead to a permanent end to the two-year war that ravaged the Palestinian territory.

Vice President J.D. Vance’s comments come as the president himself previously floated this possibility.

President Trump said Sunday that he may send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Russia doesn’t settle its ongoing war with the country. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, the president said he may speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin before sending Ukraine the missiles, which can strike targets from over 1,000 miles away. “I…
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Trump demanded authorities “look into” the senator after former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were indicted.

Former Vice President Harris said she’s unsure whether Americans can trust the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Trump. “I don’t know if we can trust what’s coming out of the Department of Justice right now,” Harris told MSNBC on Sunday. “And that pains me to say that as someone who spent the majority of…
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Sunday argued the government shutdown is being caused by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) “being petrified of their left flank.” “This shutdown is a direct result of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries being petrified of their left flank and wanting to show…
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) encouraged more Republicans to speak out against federal troop deployments across state lines, pointing to recent criticism from Oklahoma’s GOP governor as “good news.” “We’ve got to all stand together because there [are] truly unconstitutional actions that are coming out of this administration, coming at the states and the people…
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Sunday that the government shutdown has been “very isolating.” Fetterman is one of three members of the Senate Democratic Conference to vote for a Republican-backed proposal to fund the government through Nov. 21, along with Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats.…
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said on Sunday that a hypothetical commitment from Republicans to hold a vote by the end of the year on extending health care subsidies would not be sufficient to secure Democratic support for the GOP proposal to reopen the government. Kelly, in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” called…
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The GOP rep called the “pushback” ICE has been getting “interesting.”