President Donald Trump’s first judicial nominees since returning to the White House are set to appear Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the administration moves quickly to install a new wave of conservative judges shaped by high-stakes legal battles in red states. Five of Trump’s 11 announced nominees will testify at the hearing, including four […]
President Donald Trump blasted Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday morning for the senator’s opposition to the “big, beautiful bill” because it increased the debt ceiling. Trump criticized Paul in two consecutive posts on his Truth Social account. “Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming,” Trump said. […]
Former President Joe Biden‘s use of the autopen and his mental state during major White House green energy policy announcements will be aired out in Congress on Wednesday. In a hearing titled “NGOs gone wild,” the House Oversight Committee will parse claims that the Biden administration handed out billions of dollars to left-leaning nongovernmental organizations […]
Senate Republicans have offered warnings that President Donald Trump may need to adopt a softer approach than his usual strong-arm politics to pass his tax and spending bill in the upper chamber. Public barrages by Trump and his top aides against Senate GOP holdouts are complicating efforts to muscle through the House-passed measure that advances […]
Last week, President Donald Trump held a rally near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to announce the merger between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel. The event was at Mon Valley Works — Irvin Plant, a “hot strip mill” operated by U.S. Steel. Trump was joined onstage by two current Pittsburgh Steelers players, quarterback Mason Rudolph, safety Miles Killebrew, […]
A 23-year-old man tried to sneak into President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago home with the intention of marrying his 18-year-old granddaughter, Kai, according to police. He also wanted to talk to Trump to “spread the gospel.” The Secret Service detained Anthony Thomas Reyes after he “jumped over a wall to get into the property” near midnight […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she “did not know” about an artificial intelligence provision in the “big, beautiful bill,” or else she would not have voted for it. The budget bill passed last month by one vote, with Greene among the House Republicans voting in favor. She said the AI provision “strips states of […]
Vice President JD Vance said the United States was “governed by complete morons” before President Donald Trump took office at a Tuesday night event during which he previewed the administration’s economic vision. “If I on Jan. 21 — in fact I did ask this question — ‘where are the biggest deficiencies in our supply chains? What are the 100 products that we’re […]
Two Chinese nationals were charged with smuggling a “potential agroterrorism” fungus into the United States called Fusarium graminearum. The fungus causes “head blight,” a disease associated with wheat, barley, maize, and rice that can cause billions of dollars in damage. Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, who are citizens of the People’s Republic of China, are […]
A top New York City Republican wants socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani deported. Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, also the GOP minority whip, did not offer any specific grounds to do so initially, other than that Mamdani had been a U.S. citizen for less than 10 years. Her office later said Mamdani is “clearly not eligible” for […]
