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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced striking questioning from Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday. She grilled him on whether he had...
Donald Trump is America’s first billionaire president. He entered the White House in 2017 with a net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes,...
For all the panic in Washington about inflation, the federal deficit, and the mounting cost of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the United...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...
Early Saturday morning in New Hope, Minnesota, a local law enforcement officer passed a parked black SUV with police lights. She did not know the...
Elon Musk thinks White House presidential personnel director Sergio Gor is a “snake.” Gor, who is responsible for picking the approximately 4,000...
The New Republic recently commissioned a poll asking Americans for their opinions on wealth distribution in the United States. In short, we found...
When Senator Bernie Sanders took his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour to Missoula, Montana, in mid-April, he had one person in particular on his mind....
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the Pentagon to tone any commemoration of Juneteenth way, way down, in keeping with his anti-diversity...
Donald Trump insists that Iran is on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, despite repeated statements to the contrary from his own...
The world is on edge waiting for Donald Trump to decide if he will order the U.S. military to attack Iran. And according to White House press...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security have claimed multiple times since May that there’s been a 413 percent...
Two of the highest-ranking military Cabinet members have essentially been cut off as Trump teeters on the edge of joining Israel’s war on Iran,...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she wouldn’t “engage in hypotheticals” when asked two major questions on Trump’s plans for Iran....
Donald Trump is using the powers of the presidency—augmented with powers that the Constitution doesn’t give him—to make war on blue states and...
The first political demonstration I ever attended was against the Iraq War. I was in middle school when the invasion started, and I still have...
I keep glancing at the date to make sure it isn’t somehow 2003 again. Even though it reads 2025, there seem to be constant reminders of the...
Donald Trump slammed a Fox News poll Thursday on Truth Social, accusing the network’s pollsters of being “always wrong and negative.” “The Crooked...
The Federal Reserve is forecasting aggressive stagflation for the remainder of 2025. Inflation is expected to go up to 3 percent, GDP growth is...
The Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that banned gender-affirming treatments for minors on Wednesday, giving states a free hand to restrict...
You may have heard it said that Donald Trump won in 2024 in part by vowing to end “forever wars.” During the campaign, Trump ripped Democrat Kamala...
Donald Trump has reportedly given White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller one of his patented uninspired nicknames. In an interview on...
President Trump appears dead set on joining Israel’s war with Iran. After a period of negotiations, Trump has now tweeted that he wants Iran’s “...
Donald Trump claimed to have intelligence Wednesday … but he doesn’t seem to know what he has intelligence about. As tensions continue to build in...
Billionaire Bill Ackman has spent the last few days trying to get the U.S. military involved in Israel’s war on Iran. “The parade was great. Our...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...
Tucker Carlson exposed Senator Ted Cruz’s complete deference to Israel by asking him some very basic questions about Iran. Cruz was unable to...
Mencken! Thou shouldst be here at this hour. I didn’t start reading H.L. Mencken until middle age, partly because certain ugly aspects to his...
Catherine Lacey’s fourth novel, Biography of X , which came out in 2023, is one of the most formally and intellectually interesting books of the...
A federal judge just destroyed the Trump administration’s attacks on undocumented immigrants’ habeas corpus rights by upholding a 21-day notice...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clumsily dodged a question about where he’d draw the line on the use of federal forces against protesters. During a...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave a scathing dissent of the Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday upholding Tennessee’s ban on...
President Trump took time on Wednesday to reaffirm his unwavering support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wars. “I said,...
President Trump is reportedly furious with Tulsi Gabbard after the director of national intelligence posted a professionally produced,...
Senator Josh Hawley has added his name to the short list of Republicans in Congress voicing their opposition to Trump’s current and potential...
Embattled Senator John Fetterman continues to express his bloodlust on behalf of Israel. Fetterman told Fox News that he would oppose Senator Tim...
Dissent against Donald Trump is bubbling within his administration—but people are too scared to act on it. Some White House staffers no longer...
Masked ICE agents detained New York City Comptroller Brad Lander Tuesday. But rather than focus on the fact that federal agents are targeting...
Donald Trump was not impressed by his multimillion-dollar military parade. The president reportedly “reamed” out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
The Department of Homeland Security is reversing guidance sparing farms, hotels, and restaurants from immigration raids, less than a week after...
Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase the total U.S. deficit by nearly $2.8 trillion over the next decade, according to a new...
The world is getting hotter, and workers need protection from the heat. But at a hearing Monday about a proposed heat regulation from the...
Donald Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” Tuesday in a series of escalating threats on Iran. “We now have complete and total control of the...
Breaking a long-standing presidential tradition, Donald Trump says he won’t contact Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after the assassination of...