President Trump fired off a short TruthSocial post shortly after oral arguments wrapped up for the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court, slamming the challenge to one of his Day 1 executive orders. "We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday signed a statewide version of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act into law that requires residents in the Sunshine State to show proof of citizenship before voting in elections. DeSantis said he’s “not anticipating”
NASA’s Artemis II test flight is set to launch later Wednesday, marking the first crewed mission to head toward the moon in more than five decades. The crew, including U.S. astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen,
President Trump on Wednesday endorsed funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through the special budget reconciliation process that allows Republicans to fund the agencies without needing Democratic support, setting a June 1 deadline for the bill.
A COVID-19 variant with a catchy nickname is causing concern, despite making up a small fraction of current cases.
Viewership for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament reached record levels this March, driven by several high-profile matchups in the Elite Eight and exploding interest in the games thanks to sports gambling. The NCAA, in conjunction with its media partners at CBS and Turner
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a nearly flat 2027 rate notice update for Medicare Advantage, which could result in higher premiums, reduced benefits, and narrower provider networks for the 35 million seniors relying on the program.
You can repaint the walls. You can add gold accents. You don’t get to knock the house down and build a ballroom because you feel like it.
So much for the idea that Democrats are against censorship of art.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday expressed his frustration with the U.S. conflict with Iran, saying he wished for President Trump to “just declare victory” and leave behind the fighting. “I think the president went in; he thought we would get a pliant new leader who would
The show will have 16 contestants at “a luxury chalet in Park City, Utah."
The federal government's requests for social media user data has dramatically spiked over the past decade, a new report found, revealing major technology platforms reported a 770 percent increase in requests in the past 10 years. The report, published Wednesday by the privacy
NASA is taking a giant leap on Wednesday with the long-awaited launch of its Artemis II mission. If all goes well, the U.S. will be one step closer to putting man back on the moon.
There is an ebb and flow to the tide of American politics that makes it confusing, fascinating and exasperating. The New Deal coalition that brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt to power had a decades long generational run. Two dramatic and traumatic events in recent days
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday suggested that the U.S. depends "very little" on the Strait of Hormuz, the closure of which has led to a leap in gas and oil prices since the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran began. Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Rubio if one of the
The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning weighed President Trump's bid for restrictions on birthright citizenship, with the president in the room. The face-to-face moment made Trump the first known sitting president to attend an oral argument. Also, with the public's impatience
President Trump this week criticized State Farm and other insurance companies, saying they did not give adequate help for claims related to last year’s California wildfires. Trump pledged that the government would investigate the issue, though it’s not clear what follow-up, if
Jet fuel prices in the U.S. have increased since the start of the Iran war, and tensions are squeezing supply and raising concerns of a shortage.
President Trump broadcast his anger Wednesday as the Supreme Court appeared to doubt his executive order repealing birthright citizenship. “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” he wrote on Truth Social
President Trump is expected to tell Americans the U.S. will conclude its military operation in Iran in the next two to three weeks during his nationally televised address on Wednesday, according to a White House official. Trump first mentioned the timeline Tuesday while
The Trump administration has successfully reduced the number of SNAP recipients by 3.3 million, signaling that the federal government is working for the American public and that many Americans are moving from welfare to work.
Fewer American troops committed suicide in 2024 compared to the year prior, declining by 11 percent, countering an upward trend over the past 15 years, a new Pentagon report found. The report, released Tuesday, found that 471 service members took their own lives in 2024, 52
Shelly Kittleson, a U.S. citizen and journalist who has worked for more than a decade covering the Middle East, was kidnapped by an extremist group in Iraq this week, American and Iraqi officials said. Kittleson’s kidnapping comes at a time of heightened tensions across the
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb suggested on Tuesday that President Trump’s rhetoric and late-night musings on social media about the ongoing conflict with Iran are demonstrating his cognitive decline. “It’s not a surprise that we’re in this much trouble,” Cobb told
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon defended the war in Iran in an interview published Tuesday, while acknowledging the “short-term risks” for the economy. Speaking to Jim VandeHei on “The Axios Show,” Dimon pointed out that the Iranian regime has been “killing people around the
The Trump administration’s lawyer, Solicitor General John Sauer, admitted before the Supreme Court Wednesday that he hadn’t thought too much about one of the big questions in President Donald Trump’s attempt to repeal birthright citizenship: What happens to Native Americans?
A former Trump Cabinet member from his first term on Tuesday warned that Iran will get "exactly what it wants" if the U.S. ends the conflict without reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Former Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette told Fox Business Channel's Stuart Varney that he found
The celebrity-focused site is making a splash with crowdsourced recess photos.
What’s needed instead is a new legislative approach grounded in structural reform.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that six men from around the Pittsburgh-area have been charged after it says they attacked a Jewish student from the University of Pittsburgh in 2024. The six were charged by a federal grand jury with violating the Matthew
Donald Trump’s threat to leave NATO has one very big hurdle: approval from Congress. The president told The Telegraph Wednesday that he is weighing an exit from the 1949 compact, saying it is “beyond reconsideration.” He later clarified to Reuters that he planned to mention
Donald Trump’s plan for Iran is changing by the minute. Iran’s newly installed leadership immediately refuted Trump’s claims that the country was open to a ceasefire, informing state media Wednesday morning that the idea was “false and baseless.” Iran’s revolutionary guard
U.S. private sector employment went up by 62,000 jobs in March, according to a report from the payroll management company ADP. In the report, ADP said that both increases in pay and hiring stayed level last month, with smaller employers behind recent increases in jobs.
The autistic community has made tremendous progress in the last decade, but so much progress has unfortunately been reversed thanks to people like Kennedy. I can only hope that we can rebuild our progress as fast as Kennedy reversed it.
While the United States inflicts death on Iranian civilians and devastates Cubans with its oil blockade, President Trump is busy trying to classify antifa—a leaderless group that has become an umbrella term for any kind of anti-fascist resistance—as a counterterrorism threat.
A federal judge is allowing a civil suit brought against President Trump for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021 to proceed in court, a victory for Democratic lawmakers and Capitol Police officers who brought the litigation. The late Tuesday ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Amit
President Trump on Tuesday said his Miami presidential library will “most likely” have a hotel attached. “It’s gonna be most likely a hotel, you know? This concept could be office, but it’s most likely gonna be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer defended NATO on Wednesday after President Trump suggested that the U.S. would reconsider its membership to the longstanding alliance once the conflict with Iran concludes. "NATO is the single most effective military alliance the world has
The Grammy Award-winning rapper made her Broadway debut last week as nightclub impresario Harold Zidler in “Moulin Rouge! The Musical."
President Trump received a mostly positive reception during an appearance at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday evening, as he and first lady Melania Trump attended the opening of the musical “Chicago.” As the first couple entered, those in the crowd who booed were drowned out by
They were people who exercised state authority against speech they disliked, and who had sworn not to do exactly that.
President Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. will be "out of Iran pretty quickly" after nearly five weeks of airstrikes on the Middle Eastern country but warned that it could come back for some "spot hits." Trump made the remarks in a phone interview with Reuters when asked if
A “trigger happy” Pete Hegseth has used the conflict in Iran to boost his own position in the Trump administration, CNN reported Tuesday. After the Signalgate scandal , Hegseth found himself in the doghouse of Donald Trump’s Cabinet, spiraling about leaks and scrambling to
Donald Trump's ability to evoke awe in his supporters, through his bombastic rhetoric and gold-adorned Oval Office, has proven to be a powerful tool in winning elections, as explained by a 2003 paper on the psychology of awe.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The president was in the courtroom before departing after about two hours, meaning he is believed to be the first sitting president to attend oral arguments. After
JetBlue is raising its checked baggage fees, citing increased operational costs.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a retired NASA astronaut, said Wednesday that the Artemis II mission to the moon is uncharted territory for American space explorers. “They're going to go 4,000 miles on the far side of the moon, which is something we've never done before, even
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Katie Zacharia on Tuesday said she was leaving her role as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and deputy assistant of public affairs after being assigned the role in mid-February. “I joined @DHSgov with a genuine passion for supporting
Memorization of great literature gave my students more than utilitarian outcomes. It gave them pieces of their cultural inheritance.