President Donald Trump was caught complaining about repeated blocks of his appointments after acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba resigned. In footage posted on social media, Trump could be heard venting about his judicial appointments being blocked as the press was shepherded out of the room. “You know I can’t appoint anybody,” Trump said. […]
President Donald Trump warned the European Union that it must be “very careful” after its regulators hit Elon Musk‘s X with a $140 million fine. The European Commission implemented the fine on Friday, saying the penalty was due to the platform providing insufficient access to data and the deceptive design of verified markers for accounts. […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unveiled a resolution to condemn podcaster Tucker Carlson and Nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes on Monday for their recent interview together. The measure, supported by all 47 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus, would be a symbolic endeavor to denounce Fuentes’s antisemitic views and Carlson for giving him a platform […]
White nationalist Nick Fuentes thought conservative commentator Tucker Carlson would press him more on antisemitism, he told British journalist Piers Morgan. Fuentes appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Monday in a notable media appearance for the controversial right-wing podcaster. “He was very nice to me and very cordial, and he didn’t call me an antisemite, […]
President Donald Trump is keeping his promise to help farmers on the front lines of his trade wars with a $12 billion aid package paid for by tariff revenue. Roughly $11 billion will be directed toward the Agriculture Department’s new Farmer Bridge Assistance program, which will provide one-time payments to row crop farmers, according to […]
President Donald Trump appeared to slightly walk back comments he made last week regarding a highly scrutinized follow-up airstrike the U.S. military launched in September against alleged narco-terrorists in the Caribbean Sea. Over the past five months, the Trump administration has publicly touted the strikes against alleged drug boats, claiming that each boat destroyed saved […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor grilled Solicitor General D. John Sauer on Monday over his argument that the president should be permitted to fire independent agency heads without cause, claiming such a ruling would be a radical change of the government’s current structure. The Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Slaughter on Monday, weighing whether President […]
A dozen former FBI special agents have filed a lawsuit against FBI Director Kash Patel over the bureau’s decision to terminate their employment after the agents knelt during a George Floyd protest in 2020. The complaint, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, concerns an incident in which the former […]
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) launched a Senate bid Monday after she was drawn out of her House district during the Lone Star State’s redistricting push that became set in stone last week. Crockett’s bid comes just hours after former Rep. Colin Allred dropped out of the Democratic primary, saying that a “bruising” Democratic primary and […]
Alina Habba resigned Monday as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey after a federal appeals court ruled she had been serving unlawfully, ending months of uncertainty inside one of the Trump administration’s most legally vulnerable U.S. attorneys’ offices. Habba, formerly one of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers and a fierce public defender of the president, […]
