Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) said Thursday that the defeat of his chosen political heir by a Trump-endorsed primary challenger risks imperiling his district’s reliably Republican edge. “Well, here we are,” Amodei mused on X. “While this primary election wasn’t a big turnout, and no Republican in [the second Congressional district] received a majority of the […]
Former Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed President Donald Trump, saying, “He’s the real traitor,” regarding his handling of the Epstein files. “We should consider them traitors,” Greene told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on The Source with Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday. “They’re traitors, the ones that refuse to release the Epstein files, want to cover […]
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has chosen Jay Clayton, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to succeed Tulsi Gabbard as the next director of national intelligence. “I am pleased to announce the Nomination of very Highly Respected Jay Clayton, former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the former Head of […]
Nearly two dozen Democratic senators on Thursday urged the Agriculture Department to expand its war against the New World screwworm, warning that new tactics are needed after the parasitic fly recently crossed the U.S. border. Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) led the group in asking Secretary […]
UFC CEO Dana White and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are signing a memorandum of understanding on sports diplomacy on Thursday. The pair is expected to sign the agreement at 2:00 p.m. in Washington, D.C. The memorandum will mark “a new public-private partnership to enhance sports diplomacy initiatives and collaborate on the global growth of mixed […]
The Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday siding with a former Twitter employee who sold company secrets to a high-level Saudi official, finding prosecutors charged him in the wrong federal court for falsifying an invoice. Ahmad Abouammo was employed at a San Francisco office of Twitter, now X, when, in exchange for $300,000, he gave […]
A lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned UFC event on the White House South Lawn has ignited debate over how presidents use the executive mansion’s grounds. The lawsuit, filed by a political activist and military veteran from Virginia, argues the administration improperly authorized Saturday’s “UFC Freedom 250” event under rules intended for the […]
First lady Melania Trump touted the launch of a “Fostering the Future” savings account initiative with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday morning. The accounts are the latest tactic from the Trump administration to tackle the affordability crisis, an issue that has dominated this year’s midterm elections, and builds on the GOP tax law Republicans […]
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) blasted Vice President JD Vance and former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi over an alleged cover-up of Epstein files. The Epstein files consist of more than 3.5 million pages of records, gathered by the FBI and the Department of Justice, as part of their investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey […]
The European Central Bank became the first central bank to raise interest rates over inflation brought by the war with Iran. The bank announced on Thursday that it was raising three key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points to keep inflation under control at 2% in the medium term. The ECB was a natural […]
