Comedians and podcast hosts were among the many commentators shaping the news cycle in 2025, offering their takes on the Trump administration and other major events this year. The year’s largest stories include the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, billionaire Elon Musk breaking his alliance with President Donald Trump, and the longest […]
President Donald Trump has used his second term to issue pardons and clemency to political allies as well as a broad range of other individuals. On his first day back in office, Trump issued sweeping pardons for those tied to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In November, he also moved preemptively to […]
President Donald Trump‘s merry Christmas statement to the nation on Wednesday night included several digs at his political opponents. Trump is spending the Christmas and New Year’s holidays at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in West Palm Beach, Florida. According to reporters traveling with the president, he attended a private Christmas Eve dinner at Mar-a-Lago, during […]
The Trump administration is ending the year on a high note, saying President Donald Trump‘s tough-on-crime policies have driven down violent crime at a rate never before seen in the United States. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a story published by Axios on Wednesday morning, highlighting statistics that showed the U.S. murder rate […]
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump took part in the NORAD Santa Claus calls on Wednesday night. The Trumps will spend Christmas and New Year’s at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private club in West Palm Beach, Florida. However, they took time on Christmas Eve to entertain several children with the holiday tradition. While the […]
President Donald Trump reportedly ordered a two-month “quarantine” of Venezuela’s oil industry as the administration continues its pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Reuters first reported the order on Wednesday afternoon. Two days prior, Trump said at the White House that the U.S. Coast Guard was pursuing another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil in international […]
A federal grand jury indicted four suspected members of an anti-government activist group on terrorism-related felonies for their alleged involvement in a thwarted bombing plot targeting various businesses across Los Angeles. Audrey Illeene Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, Dante James Anthony-Gaffield, and Tina Cheng-Ting Lai are facing charges of providing and attempting to provide material support […]
Federal immigration officials opened fire on a vehicle on Wednesday that they said was carrying two illegal immigrants and tried to run them over as they conducted a “targeted immigration enforcement operation” in the Baltimore, Maryland, suburb of Glen Burnie. A spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the Washington Examiner in a statement that […]
Justice Department officials announced Wednesday that they will not complete the release of the federal government’s files on deceased financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein for “a few more weeks.” The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump last month, set a Friday deadline for the government […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) raised questions about who is in control of the Justice Department’s X account after an Axios report alleged that the White House has taken over the DOJ’s social media page. Massie was responding to a heated exchange on X between the DOJ and independent journalist Jamie Dupree. In reference to recently […]
