Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced a settlement with a grocery store chain to ban synthetic pesticides from being sprayed on organic produce. Paxton touted the victory as a win for the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement, spearheaded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which strongly opposes pesticides […]
Senate Republicans are shrugging off President Donald Trump’s demands to fire the chamber’s parliamentarian, a nonpartisan official refereeing which provisions of the GOP’s $70 billion immigration enforcement bill violate Senate rules. Trump made his latest case against Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, accusing her of a liberal bias on Wednesday. The criticism comes as MacDonough has […]
Former Cuban President Raul Castro was indicted in the United States on Wednesday in a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Cuba’s communist government. Prior to the indictment’s formal unsealing, a request by the Justice Department emerged on the federal court docket asking for an indictment against Castro and five others to […]
President Donald Trump slammed Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico during a press gaggle on Wednesday, falsely accusing him of being vegan. “He’s a vegan in Texas. You can’t get elected as a vegan in Texas,” Trump said. The comments come a day after the president endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for the […]
President Donald Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million of stock in Kura Sushi USA, a Japan-linked conveyor-belt sushi chain, helping send the company’s shares up by more than 5%. Kura Sushi USA, tied to the Japan-based Kura Sushi chain, stood out among roughly 3,700 trades disclosed in the president’s latest filings with the […]
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to pass bipartisan housing legislation designed to boost supply and help with affordability amid a clash with the Senate. With a vote of 396-13, the House passed the revised 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which had previously sailed through the Senate but faced a gauntlet of amendments in […]
The Trump administration on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Minnesota, seeking to block its new ban on prediction markets. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) signed a controversial bill into law earlier this week that imposes criminal penalties for operating or advertising a prediction market in the state. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission sued to block its implementation, […]
Former police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration’s newly created $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” arguing it could compensate rioters who assaulted law enforcement during the riot. The lawsuit contends the fund violates constitutional protections and federal law by potentially […]
Republican strategist Michael Caputo on Tuesday became the first known person to make a claim to the Justice Department’s new “anti-weaponization” fund. Caputo worked on President Donald Trump’s 2016 and 2024 campaigns and served in the Department of Health and Human Services during the president’s first term, before becoming entangled in the lengthy federal investigation […]
EXCLUSIVE — Arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants have soared to all-time highs in President Donald Trump’s second term, but the administration has faced significant hurdles maintaining its momentum in recent months, according to White House border czar Tom Homan, prompting some concerns from Trump’s base that his administration is abandoning promised mass deportations. Approximately 641,000 […]
