From skeptic to champion, President Donald Trump is reshaping the nation’s digital asset agenda from the ground up, pleasing die-hard bitcoin and meme coin investors and ruffling the feathers of enforcement hawks who think he’s engaging in flagrant self-dealing. He once warned that cryptocurrencies “seemed like a scam” and were “based on thin air” and […]
For a crop of ambitious Democrats, the shroud of secrecy surrounding former President Joe Biden’s health has become an opportunity to break with party leadership. In recent days, a small chorus of Democrats has been litigating the wisdom of Biden running for a second term, calling the knee-jerk defense of his political viability a mistake […]
The Trump administration faces an uphill battle in its fight to remove Harvard University‘s ability to enroll foreign students, as President Donald Trump takes aim at the university for its alleged violations of civil rights laws and executive orders. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Thursday move to revoke Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification prompted the […]
The Trump administration said Columbia University violated a civil rights law because it acted with “deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students from October 7, 2023, through the present.” The Health and Human Services Department announced the violation on Thursday night and said “Columbia continually failed to protect Jewish students” because it didn’t establish […]
The Trump administration is lifting sanctions on Syria, which was anticipated after President Donald Trump said he would do so during his trip to the Middle East last week. The sanctions relief could offer improved diplomatic relations with Syria, which ousted the Assad regime late last year after years of civil war. Treasury Secretary Scott […]
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has challenged Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) to a debate in her district after she was the “deciding vote” for the “big, beautiful” House budget bill. Lander is a prominent New York City mayoral candidate and progressive Democrat aiming to topple Mayor Eric Adams and front-runner former Gov. Andrew Cuomo […]
Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused a lower court’s order for discovery in a lawsuit against the Department of Government Efficiency days before it would have needed to produce documents. The Supreme Court issued the order, signed by Roberts, on Friday afternoon, pausing a pair of orders from lower courts requiring DOGE to produce documents […]
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump‘s executive order targeting the Jenner & Block law firm, making it the second time such an order has been declared unconstitutional by a court. Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the president’s March executive order was unlawful, issuing a […]
Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Brian K. Williams will plead guilty to falsely telling law enforcement a bomb had been placed in City Hall last year. Williams was employed as the deputy mayor of public safety in October 2024 under Mayor Karen Bass and has been charged with one felony count of making an explosives […]
President Donald Trump announced Friday that U.S. Steel would form a “partnership” with Nippon Steel, the culmination of months of negotiations over how to keep the industry American-owned and operated. “I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, U.S. Steel will REMAIN in America, and keep its Headquarters in the Great City […]
