Since returning to the White House on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has been heavily focused on giving the Washington, DC area an extensive makeover — from the Kennedy Center to a proposed White House ballroom to a proposed “triumphal arch” near Arlington National Cemetery in Virigina. An…
In the winter of 1986 while living in West Germany I visited East Berlin with my oldest daughter, who was still a teenager, and on the far side of Checkpoint Charlie we were picked up by a young man named Torsten who ran a gypsy cab. Before we’d gone more than a block he had the two of us rehearsing…
President Donald Trump is drawing a great deal of criticism from a combination of Democrats and Never Trump conservatives for mixing the federal government with his private business ventures — which, detractors say, is a blatant conflict of interest. And a CNN panel went off the rails on Thursday ni…
In a 6-3 decision breaking on partisan lines, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter that Trump can fire Federal Trade Commissioners and other federal agency directors without cause. The ruling overturns longstanding Supreme Court precedent and express statutory instruction that combined to p…
The laughter was hard to contain during a phone call between the British and the United States, a top British aide told the BBCOutgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is speaking out about some of the strange things he witnessed in his two years working for the U.K. go…
Prominent military veterans, from retired U.S Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling to retired U.S Navy Adm. William H. McRaven, are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s purges at the Pentagon — which, they warn, is hurting the military’s preparedness. Another i…
President Donald Trump is transforming the East Potomac public golf course into something a whole lot pricier — and the former golfers there, young and old alike, describe it as a “real loss for a lot of people.”“It’ll be a real loss for a lot of people in the city,” Bryan King, a 68-year-old Virgin…
President Donald Trump’s former Homeland Security chief of staff is bashing the way in which the president has turned America’s 250th birthday into a “tacky” spectacle. Writing for The iPaper, Miles Taylor called Trump’s July 4th moves just as “foolish” as the “gaudy gold” embellishments Trump has a…
On Wednesday, an anchor at what the Daily Beast calls President Donald Trump’s “most hated network” exposed the hypocrisy of his second-term grift by showing a montage of the many times he’s attacked his rivals for profiting off their positions. “The insiders wrote the rules of the game to keep them…
President Donald Trump has struggled to get decent turnout at his celebration of America’s 250th birthday, which has focused on promoting Trump himself rather than American history. Between that and his increasingly desperate efforts to stop Democrats from voting in the upcoming midterm elections, m…