President Donald Trump nominated influencer and entrepreneur Nick Adams to be his administration’s ambassador to Malaysia Wednesday, an announcement Adams called “the honor of a lifetime.” Adams was among four ambassador nominees sent to the Senate, including Eric Meyer to Sri Lanka, Sean O’Neill to Thailand, and Julie Stufft to Kazakhstan. Adams, a conservative social […]
(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott announced a new agenda for a special legislative session to begin July 21. After the regular legislative session concluded in May, Abbott vetoed 26 bills and called a special session to address six legislative priorities, The Center Square reported. After the historic July 4 flooding and catastrophic loss of […]
Americans eager to quiet their firearms have been buying “silencers” at a historic rate, and that is expected to surge more once the tax is removed under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that was signed into law. Industry officials told Secrets that there is a growing demand for suppressors as gun owners seek out […]
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) mocked President Donald Trump for asking Liberian President Joseph Boakai where he learned English. Boakai joined the presidents of Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Gabon in a Wednesday meeting at the White House, in which Boakai addressed Trump in English and thanked him for “this opportunity” to meet. “Such good English, that’s […]
The Justice Department pushed back Thursday against a former employee-turned-leaker who alleged senior officials instructed attorneys to disregard federal court orders, calling him a “disgruntled” ex-staffer engaged in a politically timed smear campaign against President Donald Trump‘s federal appeals court nominee Emil Bove. Attorney General Pam Bondi rejected claims on Thursday from Erez Reuveni, a former DOJ […]
Democrats in Iowa are looking to bring back the state’s status as the first-in-the-nation for the presidential primary cycle. In 2024, the Democratic National Committee moved the first primary to South Carolina, typically the second primary state in the election cycle. Former President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign turned around in South Carolina after poor results in Iowa and […]
Passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight from Madrid to New York made an emergency landing in the Portuguese Island of Terceira in the Azores. The airline said the John F. Kennedy International Airport-bound flight experienced an engine problem after midnight and made an emergency landing. The Airbus A330 was carrying 282 passengers and 13 […]
(The Center Square) – North Carolina is the nation’s No. 1 in the 2025 America’s Top States for Business, CNBC said Thursday morning. In a presentation from the Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington, network anchor Scott Cohn said the state’s “world-class workforce, a solid economy, and a heritage of innovation” has enabled it to keep […]
(The Center Square) – Memphis residents are getting a chance to tell Mayor Paul Young and council members how they want tax dollars from the xAI over the next six weeks, but a cloud still hangs over the project. Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer was announced last year and unlike other projects, it is not receiving tax […]
With the District of Columbia Council slated to push back the approval for a new Washington Commanders stadium to the fall, it’s possible President Donald Trump could intervene in the massive redevelopment project, based on his recent comments. Earlier this week, Trump told reporters he would be willing to “help out” if the D.C. Council […]
