President Donald Trump pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to cancel the monthlong August recess, as well as other “long weekends,” in order to get the rest of his nominees confirmed. Trump made the plea in a Truth Social post on Saturday evening, stressing that the nominees are needed “badly.” “Hopefully the very talented […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent privately urged President Donald Trump over the last week not to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, according to a report. A Wall Street Journal report on Saturday detailed Bessent’s concerns in talks with the president over a possible ousting of the Fed chairman, a move that Trump was reportedly considering […]
President Donald Trump roasted comedian Stephen Colbert over the cancellation of his CBS show, taunting that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel may be “next” on the chopping block. “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” Trump gloated in a Truth Social post Friday morning. “His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels on Saturday signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end decadeslong fighting and commit to a comprehensive peace agreement that would include the restoration of state authorities in key eastern cities controlled by the insurgents. Congo and the M23 rebels committed to “building trust” through various measures, including […]
Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine overnight into Saturday with hundreds of drones, killing at least one person, part of a stepped-up bombing campaign that has dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the more than 3-year-old war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on X that Russia fired over 300 drones, along with […]
Travelers celebrated the suggestion that American airports might soon ease restrictions on liquids in carry-on bags that create endless hassles at security checkpoints, but more than a third of all airports around the country still haven’t upgraded their screening systems to reliably detect liquid explosives that could bring down a plane. It may be annoying […]
WESTBURY, NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large weight-training chain around his neck has died, according to police and his wife, who told a local television outlet that he waved goodbye before his body went limp. The […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) leads the U.S. House in campaign funding as of Saturday, with a whopping $15.4 million raised so far this year, well ahead of the 2026 elections, new financial disclosure data shows. According to the latest Federal Election Commission figures, Ocasio-Cortez has outraised her congressional counterparts by a significant margin, having nearly […]
Three members of the arson and explosives unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were killed Friday in a blast at the department’s training facility. It was not immediately clear what they were doing when the explosion happened in a parking lot at the Biscailuz Training Facility or what caused it. However an early line […]
A federal judge in New York on Friday dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward regarding the ownership of interviews with the president published by the leading reporter. In the last year of his first term in the Oval Office, Trump sat for over two dozen interviews with Woodward as the journalist wrote […]
