Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is not letting Vice President JD Vance’s criticism slide. The comedian used his stage in Brooklyn to unload on Vance after the vice president mocked his ratings during a recent Fox News interview. Vance had argued that broadcast giants such as ABC, NBC, and CBS “enjoy the public airwaves because they […]
The White House is pulling the nomination of Brian Quintenz, whom President Donald Trump nominated as a board member and chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. A White House official confirmed the news to the Washington Examiner. The CFTC handles the U.S. derivatives markets, including option trading, and aims to promote their “integrity, resilience, […]
Late-night host Jimmy Fallon says his program is meant to entertain, not to divide, and he has no plans to change that. During an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street this week, the Tonight Show host said his monologues are designed to reach a wide audience. “Our show’s never really been that political,” Fallon […]
For the second time in two weeks, the Senate rejected dueling proposals to fund the government, all but guaranteeing a shutdown at midnight. Senators voted 55-45 on Tuesday against a House-passed measure to keep the government open for another seven weeks, short of the 60-vote threshold needed to clear the filibuster. The bill was “clean,” […]
As an affront to President Donald Trump’s administration, the George Soros-backed activist group behind the nationwide “No Kings” protests is now spearheading a pressure campaign to pressure Senate Democrats toward forcing a government shutdown. Indivisible Project, the 501(c)(4) responsible for organizing much of the “resistance” against Trump, is directing its army of activists to flood […]
The View’s Sunny Hostin strongly criticized Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday after he unveiled new measures to tighten physical fitness requirements across the U.S. military, calling his remarks “bizarre” and “not an uplifting message.” Speaking on The View, Hostin said she was “befuddled” by the tone and content of Hegseth’s address at Marine […]
The federal government is poised to shut down on Oct. 1 after President Donald Trump and congressional leaders failed to reach a funding deal, triggering agency contingency plans that spell out who keeps working and what services stop. How a shutdown will work The Office of Personnel Management has issued government-wide instructions ahead of the […]
The Justice Department sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, accusing the agency and Sheriff Robert Luna of systematically violating the Second Amendment rights of residents by dragging out concealed carry permit approvals for months or even years. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, […]
The suspect who allegedly set a Virginia city councilman on fire over the summer has admitted to police that an alleged marital affair motivated the attack, according to court testimony on Tuesday. Shotsie Michael Buck-Hayes accused Danville Councilman Lee Vogler of cheating with his ex-wife, a Danville police sergeant testified. The defendant was charged with […]
President Donald Trump claimed that a multimillion-dollar deal with Harvard University is imminent, with Education Secretary Linda McMahon working to iron out the details. “We’re in the process of getting very close, and Linda’s finishing up the final details, and they’ll be paying about $500 million, and they’ll be operating trade schools,” Trump told reporters […]
