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Gas prices: Slightly more expensive than a week ago

The national average price for regular gas is $3.165 per gallon on Monday.  According to AAA, gas prices increased slightly from a week ago, when a gallon of regular gas cost $3.149. On a positive note for commuters, Monday’s fuel costs were less expensive than a month ago, when a gallon of regular gas cost […]

Gen Z lawmakers plot ways to build on Trump’s youth vote success

A group of young state lawmakers gathered at the White House this week to discuss how to build on the inroads President Donald Trump made with their demographic in the 2024 election. Twenty-five state lawmakers, ages 25 to 35, traveled from across the country with Run GenZ, sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange Council, to […]

GOP battle brews over ‘gateway drug’ of government spending: Earmarks

The GOP spending cut fights in Congress are about to become all the more contentious. Lawmakers face rolling deadlines throughout May to submit so-called earmarks for the annual budget, a popular mechanism that Republicans have a love-hate relationship with but that offers members of Congress a chance to score funding for local projects. Republicans see […]

Jay Bhattacharya announces NIH ‘got rid’ of all beagle experiment labs

Distressing and cruel medical experiments conducted on beagles at the National Institutes of Health, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of dogs, are no more. All the projects that performed tests on the canine have ended.  “We got rid of all of the beagle experiments on NIH campus,” NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said during […]

Coast Guard stacks up drug seizures south of border as Trump amps up military presence

The Trump administration is seizing record-setting amounts of illegal drugs heading for the United States in the months after President Donald Trump declared a new war on drugs upon taking office in January. The U.S. Coast Guard, a branch of the military housed under the Department of Homeland Security, has surged more crew and ships […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence given the ‘Profile in Courage’ Award

Former Vice President Mike Pence was honored Sunday night by receiving the “Profile in Courage” Award at the JFK Library in Boston, Massachusetts. Pence was honored for refusing to comply with President Donald Trump’s request not to certify 2020 election results in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. According to the JFK Library Foundation, the former […]

Trump open to extending TikTok sale deadline for a third time

President Donald Trump was clear that if TikTok is once again unable to divest from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, he would extend the sale deadline. Asked by NBC News’s Kristen Welker whether he would extend the sale deadline of the popular social media platform even further if a deal is still not able to be […]

Trump wields lightsaber in new White House photo in slam to illegal immigration

The White House’s X account uploaded a new photo of President Donald Trump that features the president brandishing a red lightsaber to protest “Radical Left Lunatics” seeking to return gang members “back into our Galaxy.” The photo was uploaded on May 4, a day widely recognized as Star Wars Day, and features a buff Trump […]

Stephen Miller could be next national security adviser, Trump says

President Donald Trump floated his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, as an option to be his next national security adviser after he ousted Mike Waltz from the role last week. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump revealed that Miller, a stalwart of his administration who has made frequent, sometimes fiery appearances before […]

Trump slaps 100% tariff on foreign-made films

President Donald Trump announced a steep 100% tariff on all foreign-made films on Sunday while lamenting the state of Hollywood, which he said is dying a “very fast death.” In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed there has been a “concerted effort” from other countries to woo filmmakers and film studios away from the United […]
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