While appearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent struggled and failed to justify a recent assertion by his boss, President Donald Trump, leading to a tense back and forth. The exchange began when Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) asked Bessent about Trump…
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calf.) hammered Secretary of State Marco Rubio as he appeared in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday over questions about President Donald Trump’s fitness for office. Rubio’s reactions led Lieu to claim he was lying under oath. Lieu showed the footage of the Decembe…
On Tuesday, an image depicting a buff version of former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) — who is running for the U.S. Senate — was widely circulated on social media. But according to Detroit News reporters Chad Livengood and Melissa Nann Burke, the image was created by artificial intelligence (AI…
Aside from being spotted playing golf and taping an interview with a friendly reporter, President Donald Trump hasn’t held a public event in a week. CBS News reporter Ed O’Keefe made the observation on X Wednesday, saying that the White House announced that Trump would “maintain a closed schedule to…
The Trump administration has broken with military protocol, according to a new report from the New York Times, pushing through a promotion for an officer previously exempted due to a “lack of command experience,” all amidst a purge of women and minority officers from major roles.In a report release…
According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the Iran war “debacle” has “clearly broken” President Donald Trump, and as a result, the commander-in-chief has “given up governing” to focus exclusively on his true priorities: “rage and revenge.”The latest evidence of this is tthat Trump has…
Despite his lack of national security credentials, Donald Trump loyalist Bill Pulte is now acting director of national intelligence following the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard. Many of Pulte’s critics are pointing out that his background is in housing, not national security. And University of Michiga…
In New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, incumbent GOP Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. now knows who he will be competing with this year in the general election: Rebecca Bennett, a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot who, in a Tuesday primary, defeated three other Democrats. And Never Trump conservative Georg…
A bloc of voters once staunchly loyal to the Republican Party is being left “frustrated” by the pains of President Donald Trump’s failures, and according to The Hill, they might be reaching their breaking point in the upcoming midterms.As the outlet laid out in its Wednesday morning report, farmers …
The US Supreme Court late Tuesday gave Alabama a green light to use an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map that a lower court said was “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”The unsigned decision, from which the high court’s three liberal justices dissented, enables Alabama’s Re…