President Trump plans to put Ed Martin, his pick for U.S. attorney in D.C. who was rebuffed by the Senate, in a far-reaching role at the Justice Department. In a Thursday evening post on his social media site, Trump said Martin would serve as both the head of a new…
As a military spouse who has moved five times in nine years, I know how rare it is to have a stable career. I have managed to stay employed thanks to remote work, a flexible industry and an understanding employer. But I’m the exception. Despite being highly educated and eager…
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. The Trump II Cancer Metastasizes At DOJ I hate to break it to you, but the failure of Ed Martin’s nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney has not produced an…
Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire at the age of 85, the Court announced Friday. “Justice Souter was appointed to the Court by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, and retired in 2009, after serving more than 19 years on the Court,”…
Remember the days after President Joe Biden’s barely-coherent debate performance, when Democratic dead-enders insisted that nothing was the matter? That was embarrassing. But apparently it wasn’t so embarrassing that everybody took away the correct lesson, because something similar is now happening between Senator John Fetterman and a coterie of admirers…
There’s an old adage that says you can tell a lot about a country by how it governs in a crisis. But lately, it’s hard to shake the feeling that America isn’t being governed at all. Whereas the media often frames the administration’s problems as incompetence or deliberate chaos, I…
That didn’t take long. After a few months of celebrating Donald Trump’s astonishing political comeback by offering the president near-unanimous support, Republicans are going squishy. The Trump agenda is hanging by a thread. Congress, which up to now has done very little to help the White House solve our border…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Thursday interview did not directly answer a question about a statement his former running mate gave about him saying he’s being “controlled,” but described himself as a health “renegade.” The battle concerns President Trump’s new nominee to serve as…
Hayden was appointed by then-President Obama in 2016 and was the first woman and first African American to serve in the role.
President Trump has repeatedly described the U.S.-Canada border as an “artificially drawn line.” But experts say just because it was man-made doesn’t mean it’s not legitimate. (Image credit: Planet Observer)
President Donald Trump said he does not know his new nominee for U.S. surgeon general, telling reporters Thursday that he relied upon the recommendation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump withdrew the nomination of his first pick for surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, this week…
FIRST ON FOX: A Democratic governor enthusiastically posted photos with a Chinese Communist Party diplomat on Wednesday evening, saying she was “grateful for the opportunity” to meet with him. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who went viral late last year for vowing to use “every tool” to fight back against President…
First woman and first African American to hold post dismissed in terse email on Thursday night US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump abruptly fired the librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the…
Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning, just a day after being elected to replace the late Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. The new pope, born Robert Francis Prevost in Dolton, Ill., spoke in Spanish, Italian and English during…
One of the most frustrating things about the Trump administration is that it offers too much nuttiness to process. Not long ago, the discovery that the president doesn’t know what the Declaration of Independence is would have consumed the country for months. Today, it barely registers because the Trump White…
On the menu: Trust fall; Mule mail; Greene at the gills; Beshear not bashful; The _____ Nate Moore America’s obsession — or at least the American media’s obsession — with the election process that gave the world Pope Leo XIV has been intense. It’s been great #content. I mean, Cardinal…
Asked about his tariffs’ impact, the president has repeatedly pointed to dolls – because they’re seen as feminine, childlike and frivolous Donald Trump has found a new target for his trademark mockery and dismissal: little girls. In comments at a 30 April cabinet meeting, the president seemed to dismiss the…
Fifty-six percent of Americans said they disapprove of Trump’s approach to higher education, while about four in 10 express approval in new AP poll Donald Trump said he would be “OK” if Republicans in Congress raised the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans, but warned of political consequences. He wrote…
Amid firings and government shake-ups, the Trump administration has repeatedly been assigning additional job roles to Cabinet members and other officials, Fox News Digital found. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was charged on May 1 with serving as Trump’s national security advisor after the president announced he had nominated former…
The father of a teenage girl who killed a student and teacher at a Christian school in Madison, Wis., in December has been arrested and criminally charged. Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, was charged with two felony counts of intent to sell a dangerous weapon to a person under 18 and one…