Two years ago, a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. It unleashed devastating consequences for my family and our small town, with pollution that spread to 16 states and even parts of Canada. The night I saw the massive fireball from my driveway, after putting my two small children to […]
Category: Politics Matters
Donald Trump to meet Xi Jinping in China after ‘very good’ call on trade
US president says he accepted invitation in first phone conversation between leaders since January Donald Trump said he had accepted an invitation to meet Xi Jinping in China after a phone conversation on trade was held between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies. In a post on Truth Social, the US president said […]
Live updates: Musk accuses Trump of ‘ingratitude’ after Oval Office barbs
Elon Musk appeared to accuse President Trump of “ingratitude” in a post on X Thursday, after the president suggested the billionaire’s criticism of the “big, beautiful bill” was self-interested. President Trump was asked about Musk’s criticism during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House. Trump said Musk seemed to miss being […]
‘Coming for us’: Expert sounds alarm on CCP’s mission to ‘kill Americans’ after FBI makes shocking arrests
Following news that two Chinese nationals were charged with allegedly smuggling a “dangerous biological pathogen” into the United States to study at a U.S. university, Fox News Digital spoke to an expert on China who said the arrests should be a wake-up call to the country. “I was entirely unsurprised, which is a sad commentary, but […]
Homeland Security says Boston’s mayor comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is ‘sickening’
The Department of Homeland Security says Boston’s Democrat mayor comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is “sickening.” The reaction Thursday came in response to a video posted by an account affiliated with the White House, during which Michelle Wu said, “I don’t know of any police department that routinely wears masks. “We know that there are […]
Ex-Biden adviser calls Jean-Pierre ‘kinda dumb,’ deletes tweet, says she’s not a ‘genius-level Black woman’
As criticism mounts from within Biden’s world against former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and her new book, one ex-aide lambasted the now-Independent ombudswoman as “kinda dumb” — a tweet he deleted but later stood by. Timothy Wu, now a Columbia Law professor, was former President Joe Biden’s “architect” of antitrust policy whose faculty […]
Controversial airport watchlist program terminated by DHS amid weaponization concerns
EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security is ending the Quiet Skies program, which left some Americans subject to additional screenings at airport security. The department says the agency was overly politicized to either benefit or hurt specific people and ran a bill of roughly $200 million annually. According to DHS, the program kept a watchlist […]
The Stench of Loser Stuck on Mr Elon
We seem to be moving toward a bit more real animus between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Musk keeps attacking Trump’s budget bill on Twitter. Trump has now stopped saying they’re actually best buds. In comments today he’s saying, albeit very tepidly, that the friendship seems to be over. I remain agnostic on where this […]
5 Points On Boasberg’s Big Alien Enemies Act Ruling
After being mostly scuttled by the Supreme Court, the original Alien Enemies Act case has re-entered the conversation. While the high court took most of the Alien Enemies Act challenges out of the hands of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of D.C. and distributed them to the individual judicial districts where Venezuelan nationals are being […]
Trump says he and Musk “had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore’
Trump said he was surprised that his former adviser Elon Musk is scorching the Republican megabill, but said he thought Musk was wrong and conflicted in his criticism. (Image credit: Michael Kappeler)
ICE official puts politicians on blast, demanding they ‘stop putting my people in danger’
Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons demands that politicians “stop putting my people in danger.” In a video, Lyons called out Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., suggesting that they are fomenting “outrage” about ICE’s work, accusing them of “hurting” people with “ridiculous rhetoric and inflammatory […]
Trump responds to Biden dismissal of autopen probe, says he didn’t know ‘what was going on’
President Donald Trump maintained his belief that former President Joe Biden didn’t have “much of an idea what was going on” when he served as president when asked Thursday to respond to Biden’s dismissal of an investigation into his administration’s use of an autopen. “He was never for open borders. He was never for transgender […]
Climate lawfare in blue-state courts could hurt US energy consumers, expert says: ‘Huge effect’
Climate change advocates are using “tiny jurisdictions” across the country to push their priorities through civil lawsuits, in an effort that could have significant national-level impacts on domestic oil production and even other industries, a conservative consumer advocate warns. President Donald Trump has taken steps to unleash a sweeping domestic energy agenda, including through preemptive […]
Thoughts on the ‘Centrist’ Hoedown
I wanted to flag your attention to this Dave Weigel piece in Semafor. It’s about an event (“WelcomeFest”) put on by a centrist PAC called WelcomePAC, which is presenting itself as a kind of latter-day Democratic Leadership Council or punchy and centrist group focused on picking fights with the party’s leftwing. It’s a kind of […]
Blue states call on FDA to expand abortion pill access
Attorneys general of New York, California, New Jersey and Massachusetts are asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand access to the abortion pill and remove some “unnecessary” drug restrictions that have been in place for over two decades. The joint petition, filed Thursday, comes days after FDA commissioner Marty Makary committed to […]
Trump and Musk’s relationship implodes
The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk rapidly disintegrated on Thursday, fulfilling predictions of a messy breakup that the world’s most powerful man and its richest man had defied for months. Trump told reporters in an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that he was “very surprised” and “very disappointed” in Musk, […]
Newlywed couple separated at immigration courthouse by ICE
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A newlywed California woman said her husband was handcuffed and hauled away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents moments after he attended an asylum hearing at San Francisco Immigration Court. Shaylyn Ordaz and her husband, Anyelo, went to the courthouse together on May 23. “Imagine this: you’re one month away […]
Trump orders a probe into the Biden administration and its alleged autopen use
Trump alleges the Biden administration used a machine to sign key documents, as many presidents do. Biden says he made policy decisions himself: “Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.” (Image credit: Melina Mara)
Trump says he is ‘very disappointed’ in Elon Musk after attacks on tax bill
Tech boss has turned on his former ally, calling president’s proposed tax and spend legislation ‘the Debt Slavery Bill’ Donald Trump said on Thursday he was “very disappointed” with Elon Musk, after the Tesla CEO and former head of the president’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) spent days attacking the tax and spending plan Republicans […]
Tariffs prompt record plunge in US imports
American purchases of Canadian goods in April fell to the lowest level since 2021.