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Labor Department to cut workplace regulations and home healthcare minimum wage requirements

The Department of Labor is looking to repeal or rewrite 60 workplace requirements it calls “obsolete.” If approved, these wide-ranging rollbacks would affect working conditions in mines, minimum wage for home healthcare workers, and the standards on exposures to harmful materials. “The Department of Labor is proud to lead the way by eliminating unnecessary regulations […]

Dropout: Joe Biden’s mixed attempts to defend his legacy against autopen investigations

Former President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election on July 21, 2024, sending shockwaves through a race already upended by the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris stepped in, only to be beaten by Trump. As Democrats try to recover, Biden, suffering from cancer, aims to protect what remains of […]

Trump hangs hopes for 2026 midterm elections on One Big Beautiful Bill Act

President Donald Trump is counting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act helping Republicans protect their majorities in Congress next year, despite the Democratic Party traditionally outperforming its counterpart in midterm elections. However, Trump is contending with continued criticism of his administration’s management of the Jeffrey Epstein files and problematic polling regarding his legislative accomplishments. […]

Read the Trump-Epstein letter with a cautious eye

A clandestine note allegedly from President Donald Trump to the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein surfaces in the very same week that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents showing that President Obama and senior intelligence agency heads allegedly conspired against Trump in 2016. Coincidence? If you think so, I have a dossier to sell you. Here’s a […]

Six-month check-up on Trump’s economy: Inflation and gas prices down, but consumers still nervous

While it is still early goings, the second Trump administration crossed the six-month mark on Sunday, and its impact on the economy is beginning to show up in data and public polling. “Six months is not a long time to have totally revived a major country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social to mark the occasion. […]

Children’s National Hospital ends its gender-affirming and transition programs

The Gender Development Program at Children’s National Hospital will discontinue its gender-affirming medication prescription program for transgender minors and no longer offer transition services at the health institution. An announcement was made on the program’s website on Monday. The change will go into effect on Aug. 30, according to a statement on the hospital’s webpage […]

Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Theo Huxtable from ‘Cosby Show,’  dead at 54

Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, made famous for his role of Theo Huxtable, died on Sunday after an accidental drowning while on a family vacation in Costa Rica. He was 54 years old. Warner was swimming in the Caribbean Sea off of Playa Cocles beach when a current pulled him deep into the sea, the Associated Press […]

Judge extends pause on Trump’s plan to defund Planned Parenthood

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday granted Planned Parenthood’s request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts the Trump administration from defunding the nation’s largest abortion provider through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani found that the law passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump violates Planned […]

Andrew Garbarino selected as Homeland Security committee chairman, to succeed Mark Green

Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) will serve as the new chairman of the Homeland Security Committee after the House Republican Steering Committee selected him over three other contenders late Monday night. Garbarino, the co-chair of the SALT Caucus, defeated Reps. Michael Guest (R-MS), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), and Clay Higgins (R-LA). He will replace former Tennessee Rep. […]

Billy Joel says he’s ‘inured’ to woke criticism ‘at this point’

Legendary singer-songwriter Billy Joel said he no longer cares what “woke” critics think of him or his music, telling Bill Maher during a recent appearance on the Club Random podcast that he’s “inured” to criticism. “And you don’t care what they say about you — the woke or … ?” Maher asked Joel on his […]
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