President Donald Trump pardoned six people whom he says were “persecuted by the Biden Administration,” he announced on Friday afternoon. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being sent to, prison, for ‘fixing their car.’ While I know […]
Federal financial disclosures show Vice President JD Vance and first lady Melania Trump saw sharp increases in income last year, even though both remained far below President Donald Trump’s substantial earnings from his cryptocurrency and real estate ventures. Trump’s minimum reported earnings from his business empire topped $2.2 billion last year, according to the filings, a figure […]
President Donald Trump told second lady Usha Vance in a newly released podcast episode he has to be “careful” to not “supersede” former President William Howard Taft’s “record” for being the “heaviest” United States president. Trump appeared as a special guest on Vance’s podcast, “Story Time with the Second Lady,” on Friday, ahead of America’s […]
The Justice Department is urging state attorneys general to investigate whether oil companies are illegally keeping gasoline prices artificially high, escalating President Donald Trump’s campaign against what he has called price gouging at the pump. In a joint letter sent Friday, the DOJ’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission encouraged state attorneys general to […]
The fight for Michigan’s open Senate seat is becoming an early proxy war over the Democratic Party’s future, with progressives and establishment leaders lining up behind rival candidates in one of the country’s most important battleground states. The contest to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) has crystallized into a three-way Democratic primary, though much […]
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding will begin at 5 p.m. Friday and stretch until the early hours of Saturday morning, closing several blocks in the heart of Manhattan during the busy holiday weekend, according to a copy of a city permit obtained by the Associated Press and new details provided by police. The application, titled for a […]
Washington, D.C.’s annual A Capitol Fourth concert will go on as planned Friday evening despite oppressive temperatures expected to climb into the triple digits, though officials are adjusting event logistics and urging attendees to take precautions as a dangerous heat wave settles over the nation’s capital. The U.S. Capitol Police announced Friday morning that the […]
New York City‘s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani could hardly find anything nice to say about the nation’s 250th anniversary during his speech Friday, and rather focused on accusing wealthy elites, immigration authorities, and political leaders of betraying the country’s founding. Seated behind a desk once used by President George Washington, Mamdani delivered the nearly 15-minute […]
Good morning, my fellow Americans. Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor long before the name New York had ever been spoken; Lenape dugouts crossed these currents. It was on these waters, tall masts crested the horizon, captained by explorers like Verrazzano and Hudson, after […]
During the Cold War, quixotic Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha built some 750,000 concrete pillboxes to fend off a phantom invasion that never came. Yet Albania’s bunker-laden landscape may soon feature a pair of luxury resorts, at least if Jared Kushner has his way. The son-in-law of builder-in-chief President Donald Trump is pushing ahead on two […]