One point of contention between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was Powell’s refusal to follow Trump’s demands to lower interest rates. Now, Trump’s replacement will be forced to tell him he will likely follow the same path. The Economist reported on Tuesday that un…
Hard-right groups have expanded their influence inside the Trump administration, a new report on hate and extremism by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds, according to The Guardian. A federal grand jury indicted the SPLC, a civil rights organization, on federal fraud charges earlier this year — m…
Congress has been locked in an ongoing battle over the reauthorization of a key national security tool that has been repeatedly frustrated by Republican infighting. Now with the extension deadline looming on Friday, Capitol Hill insiders say that President Donald Trump has tossed a “live hand grenad…
The Miami News Times reports an FBI document from the Jeffrey Epstein files contains extraordinary allegations involving President Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and a Trump-owned golf course. The claims appear to have originated from a single tipster who contacted federal authorities as recently as…
The National Republican Senatorial Committee staff met with members on Capitol Hill Tuesday, where they got new numbers outlining the way the midterm election is stacking up. It isn’t good. Semafor congressional reporter Burgess Everett posted on X that the senators were given “tough polling numbers…
In 2024, one of Donald Trump’s campaign promises was “no tax on tips.” And the promise generated a lot of discussion in Nevada, one of the swing states that Trump flipped after having lost it to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. But according to Bloomberg News’ Caitlin Reilly, the promise isn’t getting a …
Whatever one’s opinion on President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement that carried him to office, it’s impossible to deny that they have transformed the United States. The simple description of what’s driving that change, says senior defense analyst Brynn Tannehill, is “fascism.” But as she elabora…
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump blasted a torrent of AI-slop across social media, much of which was intended to portray him as “the badass that he isn’t and will never be.” According to Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham, however, rather than making him look great, the president’s “cringe-…
President Donald Trump nominated his personal lawyer to lead the Department of Justice, and if he isn’t appointed, MS NOW experts think he’ll unleash a political plague on officials who vote against it. The problem is that some of the Senators Trump could target have already lost their jobs, thanks …
President Donald Trump’s disastrous trip to the NBA Finals was not just a public humiliation for him, because according to one cognitive health expert, it also showed a dire sign of his potential “sundowning” cognitive decline for the entire world to see.Amid the New York Knicks’ historic run, Trump…