Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rebuked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday over a weekslong disagreement over the Treasury Department’s decision to execute a joint currency intervention with Japan to support the weakening yen after the currency dropped to a 40-year low at the beginning of August. Warren sent a personal letter to Bessent on Aug. […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed former first lady Jill Biden for calling her husband, former President Joe Biden, “heroic” for dropping out of the 2024 presidential election. “That was not heroic; it was cowardly. I mean, let’s face it, Joe Biden got bullied out of running for reelection,” Concha said on Fox News’s Saturday […]
A federal judge in the Northern District of California has ruled against the Trump administration’s policy of deportation when it comes to revoking the visas of and deporting non-citizens who protest Israel in support of Gaza. Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Noel Wise agreed with the Stanford Daily newspaper in its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of […]
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed apologized to a group of Jewish voters on Saturday for a statement he made in March in response to a Hezbollah-inspired attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield. While at an event hosted by the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus, el Sayed said, “If my statement caused pain, I’m […]
An official from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office warned that Russia may be planning for a future ground attack on Kyiv and Chernihiv, near the country’s northern border with Belarus. Deputy head of the Ukrainan president office Pavlo Palisa told reporters that although there is not yet any evidence that Russian troops are mobilizing for […]
The former White House teleprompter staffer who was charged with using privileged information to make bets on prediction markets will pay a $172,539.02 fine for his actions. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on Friday that the former Trump administration staffer settled with the agency on paying back the $107,539.02 he made through his unethical […]
Alaska Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Begich dropped his bid to be the state’s next governor on Friday, endorsing the only other Democrat in the four-person general election race. Begich, who finished second among the top four candidates in Alaska’s open gubernatorial primary, cited his reason for dropping out as a lack of sufficient fundraising and […]
Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca is calling on President Donald Trump to reverse his executive order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. One day after Trump inked an executive order on Thursday changing the name of the lake under the official U.S. government, Seneca called the move “unacceptable” and an act […]
The Pentagon has agreed to pause the immediate firings of three Stars and Stripes employees for one week after the fired reporters and editors had sought a temporary restraining order to halt their removal. U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Trevor Neil McFadden, a Trump appointee, told the federal court during a hearing […]
The September 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in three days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. If the first day falls on a weekend or federal holiday, the payment is sent on the last business day of the previous month instead. […]
