📦 Plus: How Trump boxed himself in with Jerome Powell {beacon} It’s Tuesday. Hey, there’s a meteor shower happening today! Here’s how and when you can see it. In today's issue: Today’s last-ditch Iran talks Trump invoked wartime power to boost energy production Trump’s Fed
San Diego State University (SDSU) on Monday agreed to a Title IX settlement after it was accused of giving less scholarship money to female athletes compared to male ones. The university has agreed to pay $300,000 for almost 800 female former athletes to split. The payout
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said FBI Director Kash Patel is “next” following the recent departures from President Trump’s cabinet. “The reality is that this cabinet’s out of control incompetence and corruption have made it the worst cabinet since 1776, and Kash Patel is next,”
The stakes are high for every American but nowhere are these pressures more evident than in rural communities.
President Trump is one of several Republicans participating in the marathon reading of the Bible.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said Tuesday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will “be held accountable to the fullest extent” if it is discovered that she was involved in or benefited from “any fraud.” His remarks follow a Wall Street Journal report that a financial
House Republican leaders are resisting calls to bring up a bipartisan Senate bill to fund the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until after passage of a “skinny” bill to fund immigration enforcement — despite grumbles in the Senate GOP and pressure from the
The Onion says it has reached a new deal to take over Infowars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
King Charles III will become the second British monarch to address a joint session of Congress next week — following his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who did so in 1991.
Polls are open in Virginia for voters to weigh in on a constitutional amendment to Virginia's redistricting process.
Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, declined to say Tuesday whether former President Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election. When asked by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, whether
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Tuesday doubled down on his call for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to end its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to clear a path for Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee to lead the central bank, to be confirmed by the
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton on Monday accused President Trump of being "afraid" of making a bad deal with Iran as the end of the two-week ceasefire approaches "because he'll look like" former President Obama. Bolton told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not speak to President Trump about nominating Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he told lawmakers Tuesday. Kennedy told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that he met with Schwartz on
The question isn't whether to build. It's whether we can build in a way that people will actually stand behind.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) unveiled a budget resolution Tuesday that would fully fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for three and a half years, through the end of President Trump’s time in office.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, tried to dodge questions Tuesday about his financial ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Warsh
Pakistan is urging the U.S. and Iran to consider extending a temporary ceasefire, ahead of its expiration on Wednesday evening. The country’s office of foreign affairs recapped a Tuesday meeting between Pakistani Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar and U.S. Deputy
A top Democrat says he isn't participating in conversations with Republican leaders at this time.
Pope Leo XIV has been butting heads with Trump and the GOP over their use of Christianity to justify war and their mistreatment of immigrants, calling for an end to the conflict and advocating for grace, charity and forgiveness.
President Trump has reportedly boasted that he will issue pre-emptive presidential pardons to hundreds, if not thousands, of administration staff and officials, which could raise questions about the potential for abuse of the Pardons Clause and the potential for unethical or
The Pentagon is ending mandatory flu vaccines for service members, phrasing the change as giving troops “medical autonomy” and “freedom to express their religious convictions,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday. “Our new policy is simple. If you, an American
President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday it would’ve taken him just five months to end a war he refused to fight in. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box , Trump bragged about how quickly he ended the war in Iran—shortly after threatening to resume attacks if things don’t go his way in
Senate Republicans are expected to adopt the budget resolution later this week.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced Tuesday that it is under investigation by the Department of Justice, a move that comes after the Trump administration has repeatedly admonished the civil rights group. SPLC’s interim CEO Bryan Fair said the group does not have
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doesn’t think soldiers living and fighting together in close quarters or aboard warships need to take the flu vaccine. “Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said late Monday that he would “not be surprised” if foreign adversaries were responsible for the mysterious deaths and disappearances of nearly a dozen American scientists over the past few years. “I would
President Trump on Tuesday urged Iran not to execute eight women accused of crimes against the Islamic Republic amid ceasefire talks in Islamabad, Pakistan. “To the Iranian leaders, who will soon be in negotiations with my representatives: I would greatly appreciate the
Iran is not Venezuela and treating it as such is a naïve and dangerous miscalculation.
President Trump said Tuesday that the United States is weighing a currency swap with the United Arab Emirates amid the war with Iran. Trump said on CNBC that the UAE had been hit by missiles from Iran amid the war and, when asked if a currency swap was under consideration, he
House Democrats, who have been openly critical of President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the U.S. military operation in Iran, will speak with reporters Tuesday morning after a closed-door meeting. Their remarks come as a temporary truce between the Trump
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday accused FBI Director Kash Patel of being "a person who's easily manipulated" following reporting in The Atlantic that described episodes of excessive drinking and alleged that Patel's colleagues are alarmed over his behavior.
President Trump is not exactly known for his piousness, but one Bible verse seems to have struck his fancy—probably because it was used by evangelical Christians to sing his praises while they tried to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021. In the Old Testament, 2
The shooting took place shortly after 11:30 a.m., when dozens of tourists were at the top of the Pyramid of the Moon.
The Southern Poverty Law Center revealed Tuesday that it’s under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for previously using paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The nonprofit public interest group announced that the Trump administration appears to be
The Department of Homeland Security is developing smart glasses that would allow federal agents to identify people using biometric data in real time. Journalist Ken Klippenstein, citing a budget request from DHS, reports that these devices, slated to be released by September
The U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean overnight without incident, the Pentagon announced Tuesday morning. The Pentagon said U.S. personnel performed a “right-of-visit, maritime” interdiction and boarded the “stateless sanctioned” M/T Tifani in the
President Trump on Monday invoked wartime authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA) to try to push for more oil, gas and coal. The DPA gives the president the authority to increase the production of certain items to advance national security. Trump this week issued five
A hot air balloon carrying 13 people made an emergency landing in a Southern California backyard due to low fuel and a shift in winds.
The wife of a U.S. Army soldier is reportedly facing deportation after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during an immigration appointment in Texas last week. Sgt. First Class Jose Serrano, 51, told CBS News Sunday that his wife, Deisy Rivera Ortega,
President Trump on Tuesday said he would be disappointed if the Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh does not cut interest rates right away — comments that came moments before Warsh's scheduled confirmation hearing on the Hill. When asked if he’d be disappointed if Warsh
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that normal passage through the Strait of Hormuz should be maintained, his first comments on the key waterway a month into its closure by Iran following the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Tehran. Xi made the comments in a phone call with Saudi
President Donald Trump doesn’t sound particularly optimistic ahead of peace talks with Iran. Speaking on the phone to Joe Kernan of CNBC’s Squawk Box Tuesday morning, Trump signaled that the U.S. was ready to resume attacks if negotiations with Iran were unsuccessful. “Well, I
A liberal group is looking to counter the influence of conservative Turning Point USA on college campuses by launching its own club that invites students to fight back against “authoritarianism” and “corporate greed.” More Perfect University (MPUniversity), founded by the
Pentagon officials will give remarks Tuesday morning on President Trump's fiscal 2027 budget request — which includes $1.5 trillion in defense spending. The request includes $1.1 trillion in “base discretionary” spending and $350 billion for “critical Administration
Donald Trump appears to have finally lost one of his most influential supporters. Ex–Fox News host Tucker Carlson disavowed the president Monday night during an interview with his brother, Republican operative and speechwriter Buckley Carlson, telling his audience that he was
President Trump came out against a potential merger between American Airlines and United Airlines in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, but suggested Spirit Airlines should be bought. "I'd love somebody to buy Spirit, it's 14,000 jobs. Maybe the federal government should help
President Trump said Tuesday that he does not want to extend the ceasefire with Iran, with the deadline slated to expire Wednesday. Trump, when asked by CNBC if he would consider lengthen the ceasefire if peace talks this week make progress, responded, “I don’t want to do