As President Donald Trump met with the entire Cabinet this week, he bragged about the signature legislation of his second administration: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Except he didn’t refer to the OBBBA by its legislative name. “Thanks to our Republican majorities in Congress, we passed the largest tax cuts in American history,” Trump […]
The first round of June Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in 11 days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on June 10. The second round will go out on June 17 to those born between the […]
Just the other day, I was thinking about how much I have enjoyed Sally Field’s performances through the years. I was charmed by her earliest parts: her winsome performances opposite leading men Jeff Bridges (Stay Hungry) and Burt Reynolds (Smokey and the Bandit, its first sequel, and its assorted copycats). Then, without losing her spunk […]
May brought news that trucking prices are hauling upward, and fast. Increased hauling costs often mean a noticeable uptick in price tags for the many goods those trucks deliver. This was a bad omen for Republicans — rising prices have historically complicated things for the party in power during midterm elections. For instance, 2022 was […]
President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette for governor of South Carolina on Friday ahead of the June 9 primary. In making the endorsement, Trump snubbed Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is one of six candidates seeking the Republican nomination. Though he did not mention Mace in his announcement, the president suggested all […]
The former mayor of Arcadia, California, pleaded guilty to one count of acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government within the United States on Friday. Eileen Wang appeared in federal court in Los Angeles, where she delivered the expected guilty plea. She allegedly helped promote pro-China propaganda in the U.S. by sharing prewritten […]
A federal judge in Florida reopened President Donald Trump‘s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS on Friday to investigate the nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that resulted from the settlement. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, revived the case in response to a request from 35 former federal judges […]
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper of Washington, D.C., delivered a blow on Friday to President Donald Trump‘s planned two-year renovation for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, previously set to commence on July 5, and ordered the president’s name to be removed from the arts center. Judge Cooper was nominated to the […]
As Washington and Tehran rush to try and strike a deal to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, the two sides are taking vastly different approaches in public messaging. For the past several weeks, President Donald Trump has said the United States is on the verge of striking a deal on favorable terms, and downplayed […]
Maine progressive Senate candidate Graham Platner questioned whether the mass-killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century “was in fact genocide” in a now-deleted 2016 Reddit comment. The revelation of the post, first by the Washington Free Beacon on Friday, came amid national scrutiny into Platner’s past comments on social media. […]
