President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission nominee, Mark Meador, is moving swiftly through the Senate confirmation process. That doesn’t mean the consumer protection agency, with a soon-to-be Republican majority, will diverge significantly its policy agenda from former President Joe Biden’s four-year White House tenure. The FTC, often referred to as the nation’s “top consumer protection […]
In the era of peak Oscars, the movies commemorated were, at worst, honorably decent and, at best, the sort of sumptuously mounted, inoffensively impressive super-spectacles that the industry had good reason to be proud of: Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, Amadeus, The Last Emperor, The English Patient, and, inevitably but justifiably, Titanic. By the same token, […]
Any movie star worth his salt should have a distinctive manner of speaking. Jimmy Stewart charmed with his stammer, Orson Welles impressed with his baritone, and Gene Hackman elicited fear and respect with what can only be described as his bark. Hackman died last month at age 95. On Feb. 26, the bodies of Hackman […]
President Donald Trump‘s tariffs have frustrated many lawmakers, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who vowed to oppose them even as Trump pared them down on Thursday. Paul, a Kentucky senator since 2011, said he’s been told that the tariffs would hurt business in Kentucky and raise prices. “Almost every industry in Kentucky has come to […]
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Donald Trump’s insistence that the city needs to clean up homeless encampments was not an order. Trump told Bowser that she must clean up homeless encampments outside of the State Department and near the White House or they would be “forced to do it for her” in a […]
A judge on Thursday examined arguments over President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid after the Supreme Court ruled this week that the lower court had authority to force the administration to make some payments. Judge Amir Ali decided at the end of the hourslong hearing that the U.S. Agency […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to address what he called an “anti-democratic takeover” of federal courts through “forum shopping” by activist groups, issuing a directive to executive agencies to demand financial security from plaintiffs who seek out friendly judicial venues to file lawsuits against federal policies. A new memorandum from the White House instructs […]
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is “probably” going to extend the TikTok sale deadline. An executive order signed by Trump gave the social media’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, 75 days to sell its interests. The company has about a month remaining to do so with the deadline on April 5. “We have a […]
President Donald Trump deputized tech billionaire and SpaceX owner Elon Musk to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station since June 2024. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been stuck in space after their originally scheduled eight-day mission ended up with a malfunction in the Boeing Starliner during takeoff, forcing the spacecraft to return […]
The leader of the U.S. African Development Foundation is suing the Department of Government Efficiency over its attempted control of the agency. The USADF is a government agency aimed at investing “directly in African grassroots enterprises and social entrepreneurs.” Ward Brehm, president of the agency, asked a court on Thursday for a preliminary and permanent […]
