Month: October 2025

California voters are casting their ballots on whether the state will redraw its congressional districts, part of a battle between Republicans and Democrats across the country that could help decide the next majority in the House. Voters who choose “yes” on Proposition 50 would allow the redrawn congressional district maps to go into effect in…
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President Trump said Wednesday that South Korea would pay the U.S. $350 billion in exchange for lower tariffs as a part of the recently announced trade deal between the two countries.  In a Truth Social post detailing the deal, the president also said South Korea has agreed to purchase U.S. oil and gas in “vast…
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The administration’s wrecking ball has come for workers with disabilities. “Where is the humanity?” a laid-off federal employee asks.

Miles Taylor, who was a deputy chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during the first Trump administration, went after President Trump as the government shutdown endangers the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits this weekend. “I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president…
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The “NewsNight” host touched on two supporters of President Donald Trump who made particularly controversial comments on her show.

The Supreme Court requested additional information Wednesday before it rules on whether President Trump can deploy the National Guard in the Chicago area, suggesting a ruling is still weeks away.  The Trump administration appealed to the high court earlier this month in a bid to resume the deployment after lower courts blocked it.  At the center…
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President Trump’s overall job approval reached a new second-term low in the latest Economist/YouGov survey. The poll, conducted this past weekend, shows Trump 19 points underwater, with 39 percent of Americans approving of his handling of the presidency and 58 percent disapproving. The negative-19 net approval is the lowest of his second term, even though…
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The president now claims that staff at his own agencies couldn’t figure out where new revenues are coming from until he told them to “check the tariff shelf.”

William Daniels didn’t mince words when it came to the president’s plans for a $300 million ballroom adjacent to the White House.

President Trump on Wednesday impersonated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his absence during a stop in South Korea. “He’s a killer, he’s tough as hell,” Trump said at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Changing his voice, Trump said, “‘No we will fight!’ I said, ‘Whoa, is this the same man that I…
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Shocking video captured by bystanders shows an ICE agent throwing an elderly woman to the ground at an otherwise peaceful protest in Durango, CO.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday directed the state’s board of governors to “crack down” on state universities hiring workers on H-1B visas.  DeSantis called the H-1B program a “scam” that state universities are abusing, while speaking during a news conference at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa. “We need to make…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attacked The Washington Post over a report about footage of immigration operations the outlet characterized as misleading. The Post reported Wednesday that an August DHS post, in which a department staffer says that federal officers were on the job “day and night to arrest, detain and deport vicious criminals…
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A progressive congressional candidate in Illinois has been indicted on federal charges stemming from protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in a nearby suburb of Chicago. Kat Abughazaleh, 26, a social media influencer and former journalist running for Congress in Illinois’s 9th District, was hit with two counts: conspiracy to impede or…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) placed two federal prosecutors on leave Wednesday, according to multiple news reports, a day after they filed a sentencing memo describing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as a “riot” carried out by “thousands of people comprising a mob.” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White were told…
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Wednesday’s decision brings the Fed’s key rate down to about 3.9%, from about 4.1%.

“The performance of our government across the board is being diminished,” warned Max Stier, CEO of Partnership for Public Service.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is giving remarks Wednesday afternoon after the nation’s central bank cut interest rates for the second time this year. The committee responsible for setting borrowing costs cut the baseline interest rate to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent, a reduction of 0.25 percentage points. Powell faced months of pressure from President Trump to lower…
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary will give remarks on the Trump administration’s push to lower drug prices. President Trump announced earlier this month plans to launch TrumpRx.com, an online platform that it says will direct Americans to more affordable medicine. The move…
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The nearly monthlong government shutdown will cost the United States between $7 billion and $14 billion, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Depending on the length of the shutdown, the CBO estimates that the shutdown will reduce real gross domestic product growth between 1 to 2 percentage points.…
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Just in time for Halloween, the president is spooking us all with talk of an unconstitutional third term.

The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, and is set to replace them with loyalists.

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reconstructed Trump’s attempted assassination in his new book, “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America.”

Overnight Israeli strikes in Gaza killed dozens of children, local health officials said, according to The Associated Press. The Israeli military’s air strikes left 46 children dead among 104 in total, the AP reported, citing figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a post on the social platform X…
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President Trump will soon have a face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Although Trump would likely prefer to talk about a trade deal, Xi will just as certainly be emphasizing the sensitive issue of Taiwan. The recently reignited trade war seems to show that Beijing is now playing hard ball.  In fact, a recent…
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