President Donald Trump on Thursday said Iranian money controlled by the United States will be used to pay for ships damaged as a result of the war in the Middle East. “Please let this statement serve to represent, until further notice, that from this point forth, any and all damages done to Ships, Cargo, or […]
Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) on Thursday pushed back on the Trump administration’s demand that her administration turn over the identities of thousands of noncitizens who were mistakenly registered to vote, accusing federal officials of attempting to use the error for political purposes rather than election integrity. The Democratic governor said her state would not reveal […]
President Donald Trump welcomed the Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House on Thursday to celebrate the team’s back-to-back World Series, praising the players and organization for their historic run. “Congratulations everyone on this historic trip, this great journey that you’re on,” Trump said. “They’re champions and just unbelievable, and I wouldn’t be surprised to […]
President Donald Trump signed a multibillion-dollar nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, and the deal is currently under review in Congress. Trump, however, said the U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation deal hinges on whether Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords. The Trump administration has placed a strong emphasis on the Abraham Accords, with Trump “mandatorily […]
The White House’s latest dustup with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) landed with a thud Thursday among his GOP colleagues. Republican senators, including those who once opposed Thune for leader, came to his defense and downplayed remarks from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt that President Donald Trump’s patience is “running out” on the GOP-led chamber’s inability […]
Over two dozen Democrat-run states sued the Trump administration after it attached conditions to providing Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster funding. The lawsuit, filed in Rhode Island, challenges the Trump administration’s new requirement that states must certify their voter rolls and abide by federal immigration law. The law being challenged also allowed the Department of […]
Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Lori Trahan (D-MA) introduced legislation Thursday that would require large frontier artificial intelligence developers to undergo independent audits and provide transparency reports. The bill provides legislative text for one part of the draft legislation that the pair previously released, the Great American AI Act, which represents the most serious bipartisan […]
The United States is on pace to record its lowest homicide rate in more than a century, according to a report released Thursday, as killings continue to fall across much of the country despite an intensely polarized debate over crime and public safety. The midyear report from the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice found homicides […]
President Donald Trump is rolling out new Section 301 tariffs for 60 countries as the stopgap measure he implemented in the spring is set to expire. In February, the Supreme Court ruled that the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, raised under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unconstitutional. In response, Trump imposed a global section […]
The creator behind Spencer Pratt’s AI campaign videos, Charles Curran, is back at it — this time creating videos for California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton. Hilton will face off against Xavier Becerra, former President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services secretary, in November. Hilton posted the video on X on Thursday titled, “The People vs […]
