War Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed President Donald Trump’s comments, doubting Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, can lead the country. In a Pentagon press briefing on Friday morning, Hegseth boasted of the U.S.’s degradation of Iran’s capabilities, specifically targeting the confusion around the lack of signs of life from Khamenei. “Iran’s leadership is in […]
Inflation fell one-tenth of a percentage point in January to 2.8%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in an update to to the personal consumption expenditures index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge. Friday morning’s report on inflation is the last one the Fed will receive before it votes on interest rates next week. The report is directionally welcome news for […]
If President Donald Trump’s recent comments are to be believed, he wants regime change in Cuba. Even after seizing a wanted dictator out of Venezuela and while monitoring an air war in Iran. Along with ongoing military tension with Mexican drug cartels. Against that backdrop of cross-global conflict, the decadeslong tension between the island nation […]
When the Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a political gift on Feb. 20, the president did what he almost always does with gifts: threw it back. The court’s 6-3 ruling in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump was, on its surface, a stinging legal rebuke. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, held that the […]
The Affordable Care Act was former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform. It is known as Obamacare, but only informally. President Donald Trump wasn’t so subtle in claiming credit for his effort, boldly branded as TrumpRx. Go to the website TrumpRx.gov, and it will tell you three things near the top of the page: This […]
When the Supreme Court struck down the core pillar of President Donald Trump’s tariff program, it immediately reshaped the political landscape in Michigan, a battleground state whose economy is tightly intertwined with neighboring Canada. In February, the justices ruled 6-3 that the president lacked broad authority to impose tariffs without congressional approval, concluding that such […]
Not quite a fortnight into Operation Epic Fury against Iran, and markets still haven’t decided whether President Donald Trump has launched us into World War III. But that hasn’t stopped liberals and their media stenographers from praying that oil markets collapse amid the U.S.-Israel strikes against the Shia Islamic theocracy and its fledgling nuclear program. […]
Conservative activists don’t believe Republicans have done enough with their congressional majorities, just months away from those majorities appearing on the ballot in the midterm elections. It has become arguably the top issue in a contentious primary between Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the subtext of broader debates about the […]
The second round of March Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,108, will be issued in five days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on March 18. The first round went out on March 11 to those born on or before […]
President Donald Trump has a potential housing victory gift-wrapped for him in Congress — but the White House is focused elsewhere. The Senate overwhelmingly passed the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Thursday. The legislation aims to ease the nation’s housing shortage and lower costs — issues that top the list of voter […]
