President Donald Trump is set to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell next year. Here is what some of his potential picks said recently about interest rates and monetary policy. Powell has rankled Trump and his allies for months for overseeing a Fed that has thus far refused to cut interest rates due to fears of another uptick in inflation. […]
GLYNCO, Georgia — In the coming months, 10,000 recruits hired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pass through the federal agency’s training academy in coastal Georgia before fanning out across the country to carry out President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda. At the facility, the newest officers from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations arm will undergo […]
President Donald Trump nominated Sergio Gor, currently a White House official, to be the new ambassador to India. Gor, who has been serving as director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, will also serve as the special envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs, pending Senate confirmation. In his announcement, Trump praised Gor’s work […]
One Texas Senate Democrat is taking drastic measures to ensure her filibuster of the state Republican redistricting plan is successful. Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado is using a catheter to urinate into a urine bag, which will be hidden by a long dress she plans to wear. She also received an IV infusion to hydrate […]
The Justice Department on Friday released the transcript and audio of a two-day interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously represented President Donald Trump against a flurry of criminal charges levied against him in the lead-up to the 2024 election, conducted the nine hours of questioning on July 24 […]
Democrats should speak more “like normal people” and examine their language, liberal think tank Third Way said in a memo. The Democratic Party is scrutinizing its messaging, platform, and candidates that it’s marketing to Americans after a decisive 2024 election loss. Third Way, in a memo addressed to “All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump […]
President Donald Trump said Friday that chipmaker Intel has agreed to give the United States government a 10% equity stake in the company, a historic government intervention. Trump said during a news conference that the deal came after negotiations with the CEO of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan. “I said, ‘I think it would be good having […]
Acting New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba blamed Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Thursday for some of her struggles to keep her job due to his refusal to end a bipartisan tradition on judicial nominees. Habba said during an appearance on Fox News that Grassley had helped stall her nomination “by holding up a traditional […]
A Democrat in Michigan filed an ethics complaint against Rep. John James (R-MI) on Friday over a campaign event he held this week. Joel Rutherford, who was previously the Michigan Democratic Party’s chairman for the 10th Congressional District, which James represents, claimed James used one of his House staffers and several printed signs at a […]
The Department of Justice on Friday sent the first round of files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the House Oversight Committee. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the committee, subpoenaed the Epstein files earlier this month. “The House Oversight Committee has received the Department of Justice’s first production of Epstein records pursuant to […]
