|
![]() |
![]() |
New Republic![]() |
Donald Trump threw yet another tantrum Thursday about Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s latest alert that the president’s tariffs will cripple...
FBI Director Kash Patel seems to be interpreting the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution how he sees fit, contradicting legal precedent. At a...
Chief Justice John Roberts offered a gentle rebuke of Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on the judiciary. During a fireside chat Wednesday night...
The Trump administration apparently deported two U.S. citizen children—ages 5 and 4—after surreptitiously luring their mother to an immigration...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...
President Donald Trump said Thursday that it was “a good thing, not a bad thing” that he’d crippled the international economy, putting workers’...
Last week, Senator John Fetterman held what would normally be a friendly meeting with Pennsylvania’s largest teachers’ union. Representatives from...
Last month, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin scored his 875th goal in the National Hockey League, surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s long-standing...
Trump’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general is beyond unqualified. The president has selected Casey Means, a self-described “wellness influencer” from...
Over the first 100 days of his second administration, President Donald Trump, working in concert with Elon Musk’s DOGE proxy—which it still seems a...
Trump had a press conference Thursday to explain to everyone that the beautiful, spectacular trade deal that he’s made with Britain is actually...
Following the Hamas October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, in which that group murdered approximately 1,200 people and took 251 more hostage,...
The radical libertarian city builders of the tech-bro set have an audacious new proposal: They want to convert Guantánamo Bay, host to the infamous...
RFK Jr.’s old running mate thinks someone is controlling him—and it isn’t Trump. Former vice presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan was both...
President Donald Trump erupted on Truth Social this week when it became clear that MAGA loyalist and insurrectionist Ed Martin’s nomination for...
Trump is selling himself–and his meme coin—to the highest bidder. And most of those top bidders appear to be foreign, according to Bloomberg . More...
A 25-year old DOGE bro oversaw the termination of lawyers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, just days after they warned him...
Three federal agencies on Donald Trump’s chopping block have been saved by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. sided with a 21-...
Donald Trump’s quest to conquer Greenland is becoming increasingly serious. The intelligence community directed intelligence agency chiefs to...
Donald Trump made the “Gulf of America” so great again that he’s considering implementing a similar rebrand for another body of water—this...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a message for a hypothetical little girl worried that she won’t have more than two dolls because of Donald...
President Trump is suddenly very taken with visions of Barbie doll factories in America. On three separate occasions, Trump has defended his...
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has a plan to protect autism-related data from RFK Jr.’s absurd plans to create a disease registry tracking autistic...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...
The Trump administration is planning to use a military plane to deport immigrants to Libya in a cruel, arbitrary escalation of its mass deportation...
On April 22, Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the first meeting of the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government.”...
Thanks to President Trump’s policies, a confluence of events is set to absolutely clobber rural America. First there’s Trump’s trade war. On...
On April 28, air traffic controllers responsible for as many as 20 flights into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport—some flying at...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday raided a restaurant in Washington, D.C., owned by the husband of CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell....
The MAGAsphere is reeling as Republican Senator Thom Tillis seems likely to tank Trump’s nominee for D.C. attorney due to his legal and political...
Former President Joe Biden doesn’t think the election would have been any different if he’d dropped out sooner. “I don’t think it would have...
The “TV is Art” team won. When I first started writing about television in the early 2010s, there was still something of a taboo about lavishing...
Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that Russia was “asking for too much” in its negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. During a Q&A at the...
Donald Trump says he doesn’t know whether he plans to deport hundreds of immigrants to Libya, amidst reports that his administration will do so as...
Donald Trump is planning to pay $45 million to roll tanks down the streets of Washington, D.C., on his birthday. It was only a few months ago that...
The numbers are in, and they don’t look good for the president. The Cook Political Report observed Wednesday that Donald Trump’s poll numbers...
President Donald Trump is planning to send a planeful of deportees to Libya—but both of Libya’s governments say they won’t take them, The...