Month: January 2026

Economist Paul Krugman on Wednesday said there’s no wealth to be gained after President Trump said that U.S. oil companies would take control of Venezuela’s oil production following the ousting of the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. “Donald Trump’s Venezuela venture is a very different story,” Krugman wrote on his Substack. “During his triumphalist press conference after the…

President Trump said Thursday he ordered the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds with the goal of easing housing costs through lower interest rates. In a Thursday post on Truth Social, the president said he instructed unspecified “Representatives” to buy $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities, which he argued would “drive Mortgage Rates DOWN, monthly…

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Thursday said Minneapolis officials will launch an independent probe into the fatal shooting of a local woman while she was in her car.  On Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good. Bystander footage has sparked pushback from local leaders and Democratic…

Iranian leaders have apparently shut down internet and phone networks in Tehran as protests erupt in the capital. Cloudflare, an internet firm, and the advocacy group NetBlocks said sweeping internet outages were directly tied to the Iranian government. Iran’s theocracy is facing mounting unrest in response to an economic crisis, with inflation soaring above 40…

Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are calling on a federal judge to appoint a special master to oversee the Justice Department’s mandatory release of files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter Thursday to Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York, the two lawmakers sought…

“We literally save empty paper towel rolls for our art projects,” one provider said. “[This] will destabilize our entire budget.”

The House passed legislation Thursday to revive and extend expired ObamaCare tax credits in a bipartisan vote that is boosting hopes of centrist Republicans for a bipartisan deal to revive the tax credits. The tally, 230 to 196, highlighted the tenuous grip Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has over his restive GOP conference. Seventeen centrist Republicans crossed the aisle to…

Senate Republicans on Thursday lamented President Trump’s call for the ouster of five GOP members who voted with Democrats and dealt him a blow on the Venezuela war powers resolution, indicating the president’s angry rant was a mistake as the party enters an election year. Trump fumed on social media shortly after the vote, saying the handful of…

The Trump administration said Thursday it is considering the addition of a second floor for the West Wing in an effort to create “symmetry” amid the reconstruction of the East Wing ballroom. “We’re considering the idea of a modest one-story addition to the West Wing,” architect Shalom Baranes said during a Thursday presentation to the…

Vulnerable Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) clapped back at President Trump on Thursday over his irate social media post blasting the “stupidity” of GOP senators who voted for a war powers resolution and declaring that they “should never be elected to office again.” “The president obviously is unhappy with the vote. I guess this means that…

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) took a swing at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in his city, saying “she knows her narrative about domestic terrorism is bulls‑‑‑.” “Let’s call a spade a spade: Kristi Noem watched the videos…

The president named the GOP senators who should “never be elected to office again” after they voted with Democrats to limit his powers.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) ripped President Trump in his last annual address as governor, touting the Golden State as an alternative “blueprint” for the rest of the country.  “The federal government, respectfully, it’s unrecognizable, protecting the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable. Their credo seems to be about fear: fear of the future,…

Vice President Vance called the War Powers Act “fundamentally fake” and unconstitutional, ridiculing the law passed in 1973 shortly after senators on Capitol Hill voted to advance a bipartisan measure to block President Trump from using military force against Venezuela.  “Second of all, as the president, I believe himself, has already said every president, Democrat…

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) justified voting with Democrats to advance a bipartisan resolution on the War Powers Act to block President Trump from using military force against Venezuela. “With regard to Venezuela, my read of the Constitution is that if the President feels the need to put boots on the ground there in the…

White House aides have discussed figures ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, sources told the outlet.

The ICE shooting in Minnesota seems to have spurred the game show host to publicly — and bluntly — share his opinion.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday was previously injured in June while attempting to arrest an undocumented immigrant, according to officials. The agent was apprehending an individual during a traffic stop in Bloomington, Minn,. earlier this year, when the person attempted to flee, a Department…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday took a swing at President Trump’s moves in Venezuela, comparing the administration’s latest actions to imperialism. “You’re talking about old-fashioned imperialism. And all that that is, throughout the history of the world — England, Spain, Portugal, way back when — powerful nations went into poor, undeveloped areas, and just…

A federal judge on Thursday disqualified the top federal prosecutor in upstate New York and blocked subpoenas his office issued to state Attorney General Letitia James (D). John Sarcone III’s service as acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York “was and is unlawful” because the Justice Department maneuvered to keep him in…

House Republicans on Thursday said they are summoning top health insurance executives to testify later this month as part of a series of hearings about health care affordability.  The move from the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees comes weeks after the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expired on Dec. 31, resulting in significant…

House Homeland Security Committee Democrats are demanding the panel’s Republican majority call Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem before Congress after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting that killed a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday. Noem has defended the killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, saying the officer was justified in shooting her because he…
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Vladimir Putin has been lying to Donald Trump and the world about the war in Ukraine, and his false claims have proven costly for both Ukraine and Russia.

We arrested an illegitimate leader and removed him from his country and have no intent to try to build democracy. You don’t secure freedom by negotiating oil first and rights later.

Why do so many progressives absolutely love the idea of imprisoning their political enemies for expressing ideas they dislike or think are wrong? For example No. 8,057 (yes, I made up that number), see Mehdi Hasan, a well-known leftist commentator and founder of the progressive news site Zeteo. Hasan wants to elect far-left Democrats and…
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