HUD over­hauls Oba­ma-era LGBT hous­ing pro­tec­tion to end ‘far-left gen­der ide­ol­o­gy’

Depart­ment of Hous­ing and Urban Devel­op­ment Sec­re­tary Scott Turn­er announced on Thurs­day that the depart­ment will pause the enforce­ment of its “Equal Access Rule” to align with Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump‘s crack­down on “gen­der iden­ti­ty” lan­guage in fed­er­al poli­cies. ‘HIGH CALLING’: HOW TRUMP’S HUD SECRETARY PLANS TO TACKLE TO HOUSING CRISIS HUD’s Equal Access Rule, installed […]

Trump Trans­porta­tion sec­re­tary moves to undo Biden fuel stan­dards in first act

In his first act in office, new Trump trans­porta­tion sec­re­tary Sean Duffy signed a mem­o­ran­dum direct­ing the agency to review for­mer Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s fuel econ­o­my stan­dards, which aim to reduce vehi­cle emis­sions.  Short­ly after the Sen­ate con­firmed Duffy on Tues­day, he signed a memo to the Nation­al High­way Traf­fic Safe­ty Admin­is­tra­tion (NHTSA) ask­ing the agency to review its cor­po­rate aver­age […]

Pete Hegseth clears first Sen­ate hur­dle despite Democ­rats’ efforts to tank Pen­ta­gon nom­i­nee

The Sen­ate on Thurs­day advanced defense sec­re­tary nom­i­nee Pete Hegseth in a vote that was most­ly along par­ty lines, pre­sent­ing Repub­li­cans a major test of uni­ty just days into Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond term. The Repub­­li­­can-led cham­ber, requir­ing only a sim­ple major­i­ty, vot­ed 51–49 to clear a pro­ce­dur­al step and set the stage for con­fir­ma­tion […]

Murkows­ki becomes first GOP sen­a­tor against Hegseth: ‘I believe char­ac­ter is the defin­ing trait’

“I believe that char­ac­ter is the defin­ing trait required of the Sec­re­tary of Defense, and must be pri­or­i­tized with­out com­pro­mise,” Murkows­ki said in a state­ment post­ed on X ahead of Hegseth’s first test vote on Thurs­day after­noon.  Murkows­ki con­tin­ued, “The leader of the Depart­ment of Defense must demon­strate and mod­el the stan­dards of behav­ior and […]

Musk expect­ed to oper­ate DOGE from White House com­plex with close access to Trump

The space that Musk is pro­ject­ed to use is the Eisen­how­er Exec­u­tive Office Build­ing, adja­cent to the White House. Musk and fel­low co-chair­­man Vivek Ramaswamy have been tasked to lead DOGE in a mis­sion to reduce waste, abol­ish redun­dant agen­cies, and sharp­en the effi­cien­cy of the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment as a whole. The loca­tion would allow […]

Port­land may­or orders hun­dreds of gov­ern­ment work­ers to return to office

New Port­land May­or Kei­th Wil­son is using his first weeks in office to man­date all city gov­ern­ment man­agers and super­vi­sors to return to in-per­­son work full-time start­ing in April. The change will affect rough­ly 700 employ­ees who have been work­ing remote­ly or hybrid. “As man­agers and super­vi­sors, you set the tone and cul­ture for staff […]

Nation­al Weath­er Ser­vice Warns Of ‘Life-Threat­en­ing’ Wind­storm In South­ern Cal­i­for­nia

A dan­ger­ous wind­storm is expect­ed to blow through Ven­ture and Los Ange­les Coun­ties in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia this week, accord­ing to fore­cast­ers. “HEADS UP!!!” the Nation­al Weath­er Ser­vice (NWS) Los Ange­les said in all cap­i­tal let­ters with a post to X on Mon­day warn­ing of the poten­tial tem­pest. “A LIFE-THREATENING, DESTRUCTIVE, Wide­spread Wind­storm is expect­ed [Tues­day] […]

Lib­er­al Media Scream: MSNBC the sole #Joe­men­tia denier

This week’s Lib­er­al Media Scream fea­tures MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend as the media’s last denier that Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has lost it. What’s cra­zier than the obvi­ous is that she claims that it is incom­ing Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump who suf­fers brain fog. Appear­ing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sun­day, Sanders-Townsend’s defense of the pres­i­dent who […]

Judge finds Giu­liani in con­tempt for 2020 elec­tion defama­tion case

A fed­er­al judge in New York on Mon­day found Rudy Giu­liani in con­tempt for fail­ing to com­ply with asset dis­clo­sure requests tied to a $148 mil­lion defama­tion judg­ment won by two Geor­gia elec­tion work­ers. U.S. Dis­trict Judge Lewis Liman issued the rul­ing after hear­ing Giu­liani tes­ti­fy dur­ing a con­tempt hear­ing. Lawyers for Ruby Free­man and […]