A Florida fuel supplier has been convicted in a multi-million dollar scheme aimed at defrauding the Department of War. A news release from the Department of Justice on Friday said a federal jury convicted Jason Butler, 37, of Jupiter, Florida, on 34 felony counts related to a massive scheme to defraud the U.S. military of […]
A watchdog group on Thursday called on the Interior Department to produce financial details about one of the Trump administration’s initiatives to celebrate the United States’s semiquincentennial. The development appears to mark an effort designed to ensure that Freedom 250, a semiquincentennial initiative being spearheaded by President Donald Trump, does not gain access to any […]
President Donald Trump relented Friday on his threat to use the Insurrection Act in response to unrest in Minneapolis. “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” Trump said about the Insurrection Act while speaking to a gaggle of reporters as he left for […]
White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said on Friday that the Trump administration is in talks with major banks about voluntarily issuing “Trump cards” that have a 10% interest cap. The proposal follows President Donald Trump’s recent call for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%, a measure aimed at […]
Reality television personality Farrah Abraham’s entrance into Austin politics took an unexpected turn after she announced a mayoral run, learning during a live TV interview that the election isn’t for another two years. The former Teen Mom star revealed this week on social media that she planned to run for mayor of Austin in 2026, […]
President Donald Trump said it was “very nice” of Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado to present him with her Nobel Peace Prize. Machado was at the White House on Thursday for lunch with Trump as his administration considers how best to deal with Venezuela after he ordered the capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicholas […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris spoke out against the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Chicago. Harris, who pundits believe is mulling another bid for the presidency in 2028, repeatedly told the crowd that Americans are “sick and tired” […]
President Donald Trump is reportedly pardoning former Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vazquez Garced, who pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges last year. Trump is also pardoning two of her co-defendants, billionaire Venezuelan-Italian banker and Britannia Financial Group founder Julio Martin Herrera-Velutini and former FBI agent Mark Rossini. White House officials have suggested the case against […]
FLORIDA REPUBLICAN PUSHES TO MAKE GREENLAND 51ST STATE IN BILL SEEKING ‘SOVEREIGNTY’ OVER TERRITORY President Donald Trump will attend a dedication ceremony in West Palm Beach, Florida, to rename Southern Boulevard in his honor at around 3:15 p.m. ET on Friday. The ceremony comes as Trump targets Greenland and deals with protesters in Minneapolis.
A federal judge has reportedly rejected the Justice Department’s request to join a civil rights case brought by two high school boys in Northern Virginia who were suspended on Title IX sexual harassment charges after privately objecting to a transgender student’s presence in the boys’ locker room. During a hearing held on Friday morning, Judge […]
