In a letter sent to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on June 30, Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) sounded the alarm about “conflicts of interest and ethical risks posed by prediction market betting on Supreme Court decisions and Court operations.” And the Democratic congressman urged Roberts…
New reporting has uncovered a White House policy that withholds antiterrorism funds from states that don’t comply with the Trump administration’s election rules. This effort, declared a former US attorney on Wednesday, amounts to “extortion.”“Threatening to withhold federal antiterrorism funds from …
Federal Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an order that President Donald Trump’s money be given to E. Jean Carroll after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in the case. There were two Carroll cases, and the high court refused to hear the second one. The court docket shows that Judge Kap…
Signaling their increased panic about getting crushed in the coming midterms, Axios reported that the Republican Party is dumping more and more money into red-state Senate races that were once considered a sure thing, attempting to preserve their “red wall” against a blue wave.Republicans have long …
Cybersecurity experts have been warning that as bad as online hacking is now, it will grow much worse as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance. But with or without AI, hackers are penetrating some major U.S. government websites — including those operated by the military.According to Cybe…
Everything that came before President Donald Trump is dumb, he thinks, according to journalist and author Fred Kaplan.In a recent piece for The iPaper, Kaplan called out Trump’s aversion to pre-history.”The modern presidents before him were stupid (his vice president, JD Vance, quipped at the start …
President Donald Trump is perpetually unable to quell rumors about his failing cognitive and physical health, and now, as highlighted in a report from The Daily Beast, he is “once again under scrutiny after a series of jaw-dropping gaffes on the world stage.”Trump is currently in the Turkish capital…
As algae blooms persist in the Reflecting Pool, the multi-tiered fountain at Meridian Hill Park, known to locals as Malcom X Park, has turned brown. It has been less than a week since Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Todd Blanche and Trump staffer Stephen Miller dedicated the foun…
Since returning to the White House on January 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump has been obsessed with giving the Washington D.C. area an extensive makeover —from the Kennedy Center to a proposed White House ballroom to a proposed “triumphal arch” near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Tr…
On Tuesday, NBC News confirmed that the Justice Department has sent threatening letters to election officials spanning every state and Washington, D.C., asserting that they could “face criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting.” According to NBC, the letters are the latest move in President Donald…