The White House hosted a somewhat unexpected visitor on Monday: billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban. Cuban’s presence wasn’t a total surprise. Outlets reported earlier in the day that he was one of many healthcare executives who’d be at the White House for President Donald Trump‘s announcement regarding TrumpRx, the federal government’s website aimed at lowering prescription […]
San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said “hate rhetoric” was involved in the deadly shooting at a San Diego mosque that left five people dead, including the two suspects. Wahl said the shooting that took place on Monday morning at the Islamic Center of San Diego is being investigated as a hate crime. The two suspects […]
X owner Elon Musk vowed to appeal a federal grand jury’s verdict against his claim that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abandoning the company’s original nonprofit vision after it ruled it was not brought in a timely manner. Musk said the jury did not rule on the evidence of the case, but rather a “calendar […]
A senior Washington, D.C., Bar disciplinary official withdrew from an ethics investigation against U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin after a series of inflammatory social media posts targeting conservatives, Supreme Court justices, and President Donald Trump resurfaced online. Jack Metzler, a senior assistant disciplinary lawyer with the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, stepped away from the […]
President Donald Trump said on Monday he wasn’t involved in the creation of a $1.776 billion Justice Department fund to compensate victims of alleged lawfare during the Biden administration. The fund was announced this week as part of a settlement resolving Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his confidential tax […]
President Donald Trump quipped that Maryland may not even be majority Democrat as he ramps up his criticism of the state’s mail-in ballot rules. “I was told that it’s automatically a Democrat state, and I don’t believe that,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “I did really well there, and I don’t believe it.” Former Vice […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) won’t be taking sides after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) failed to make a June 27 runoff for his Louisiana Senate seat. “Not weighing in on that,” Thune told the Washington Examiner when asked if he had a preference between Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) and State Treasurer John Fleming, the […]
The Trump administration is joining forces with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs, Amazon Pharmacy, and GoodRx to add generic medications to the direct-to-consumer drug sales website, TrumpRx, in an attempt to lower healthcare costs ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. At the White House on Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced a merger of the […]
Allies of Rep. Thomas Massie are taking a political gamble that could put them directly in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs by standing beside the Kentucky Republican in the toughest primary fight of his career. Trump has long been known to punish Republicans who defy him, whether over major policy disputes or personal slights. Now, some […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a new investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center on Monday as a federal judge in Alabama moved forward with a criminal fraud case against the civil rights organization, setting a jury trial for October. Paxton said his office has opened an investigation into the Alabama-based nonprofit group over […]
