The White House posted a picture for SpongeBob SquarePants’s birthday on Tuesday, creating a MAGA version of the dedicated Krusty Krab fry cook. The White House reposted a post on X from the official SpongeBob account, which said, “Happy #SpongeBobDay!” The White House responded with its own version of the yellow sponge on X. The […]
A Democratic Socialists of America caucus argued the Constitution was created to protect slavery and wealthy people in a Monday video calling for a new founding document. The DSA’s Marxist Unity Group, a caucus focused on mass movement-building, called on viewers to join the DSA and fight for a “big public assembly” to establish “a […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) regained control of the House floor after a weeks-long battle with a group of GOP hard-liners. The House voted 215-211 for a procedural rules package that will unlock the House floor this week, allowing GOP leadership to move forward with plans to vote on an appropriations bill and other legislative […]
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that its trade fraud task force has surpassed $1 billion in criminal and civil recoveries, penalties, forfeitures, and publicly charged losses during its first year, Justice Department officials said at a press conference in Chicago. The DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security launched the Trade Fraud Task Force in […]
Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, is set to be sworn into the Senate as her older brother’s replacement on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday, Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) appointed Nordone to serve the remainder of Graham’s fourth term. Graham was up for reelection this year. President Donald Trump […]
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh vowed that the central bank is fully committed to lowering inflation to the 2% target. Warsh, who replaced Jerome Powell as Fed chairman in May, testified Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee, where he was repeatedly asked about the Fed’s efforts to drive inflation down after years of too-hot […]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said Tuesday she will press Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to halt all non-urgent Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle stops after a man was shot and killed during an immigration enforcement operation Monday, sparking outrage across the state. “While the investigation of the Biddeford shooting is not yet complete, […]
Pro-Palestinian protester and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil is suing multiple parties, including the Trump administration and the Heritage Foundation, for waging a “conspiracy” against him since last year. Khalil, a legal permanent resident married to a U.S. citizen, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March 2025 before a federal judge ordered his […]
President Donald Trump’s settlement payment of over $5.6 million has been electronically wired to columnist E. Jean Carroll after a court found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. Court records from Tuesday show Carroll was wired a payment of $5,625,005.48 last week, in line with the court order from President Bill Clinton-appointed federal […]
President Donald Trump’s proposal to implement a 20% tax on goods transiting the Strait of Hormuz was met with backroom pressure from the U.S.’s Gulf allies, contributing to the White House’s reversal just a day later. Trump’s declaration on Monday that the United States would be “known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,'” and […]
