President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday night cutting federal funding for NPR and PBS, decrying both outlets for their allegedly “biased” coverage. The president’s order calls on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to “cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding” to NPR […]
The tariff exemption for low-value packages from China ended on Friday, meaning online shoppers will soon feel President Donald Trump’s tariffs tangibly. Trump’s blanket 145% tariff against Chinese goods came with a “de minimis exemption,” a law that waived tariffs on packages under $800. The end of the exemption on Friday will cause prices for […]
Whatever ails President Donald Trump, each day brings new reminders that many of the Democrats who would like to replace him aren’t quite ready for prime time. Every time Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), who was on the party’s national ticket as the vice presidential nominee just last year, strikes out on his own, he illustrates […]
President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet nominees pulled from the House despite Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA) slim majority have made the most headlines during his second administration. Trump, while putting together his Cabinet, tapped three House members for his administration: now-former Reps. Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Mike Waltz as national security adviser, and Rep. Elise […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is determined to pass a megabill to codify President Donald Trump’s agenda by Memorial Day, but four factions of GOP lawmakers are forcing leadership to find a compromise that can pass the razor-thin GOP majority. The White House held a meeting Thursday with Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), House […]
From heated political rhetoric between heads of state to loud booing at NHL games, all signs say the relationship between the United States and Canada looks to sour in President Donald Trump’s second term. Whether it’s the threat of tariffs or the president’s use of “the 51st state” to refer to America’s neighbors to the […]
“War,” the U.S. General William Tecumseh Sherman famously remarked, “is all hell.” And in Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas and other Iranian proxies has stretched on for more than 18 months. A key reason behind the conflict’s duration is the so-called Gaza metro. The tunnel network built by the U.S.-designated terrorist organization is vast and […]
When President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet for a meeting on the 100th day of his second term, his message was that he was just getting started. But for one of the high-profile figures in the room, it had the feeling of a swan song. Elon Musk, point man for the Department of Government Efficiency, […]
President Donald Trump announced late Thursday night that he would nominate Whitney Hermandorfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. It is his first federal judicial nomination since returning to the White House in January. Hermandorfer, a former co-captain of Princeton University’s women’s varsity basketball team, currently serves as director of the […]
NASSAU, The Bahamas — Divers recently captured footage of two whales from a long-hunted species now protected by an international treaty, and, in the United States, the Endangered Species Act. The North Atlantic right whale pair sighting, among an estimated 370 of the 50-foot aquatic creatures remaining in the world, marked the first time any […]
