The Super Bowl team Trump may not be root­ing for on Sun­day

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, tak­ing to social media ahead of the Super Bowl, praised both teams fac­ing off in pro­fes­sion­al foot­bal­l’s biggest game. “Two great Quar­ter­backs in this game. Also, an unbe­liev­able run­ning back, and the absolute best tight end in foot­ball (Ever!). Incred­i­ble coach­ing!” the pres­i­dent wrote Fri­day in a post on his Truth Social […]

Rubio scores key wins for Trump immi­gra­tion agen­da with blitz through Latin Amer­i­ca

Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Rubio wrapped up his first over­seas trip across Latin Amer­i­ca with sev­er­al wins on immi­gra­tion, a top pri­or­i­ty for Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump. America’s new top diplo­mat returns home with a binder full of agree­ments from for­eign gov­ern­ments on day-one pri­or­i­ties to inter­dict human and drug traf­fick­ing – a tes­ta­ment to how […]

DOGE Scores Legal Win After Labor Unions Sue To Stop Access To View Poten­tial Waste

A fed­er­al judge on Fri­day decid­ed not to imme­di­ate­ly block the Depart­ment of Gov­ern­ment Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to U.S. Labor Depart­ment sys­tems. Labor unions sued to stop the department’s access to the sys­tems, large­ly over DOGE chair­man Elon Musk’s involve­ment, cit­ing a con­flict of inter­est. U.S. Dis­trict Judge John Bates expressed con­cerns over DOGE’s access, […]

Edu­ca­tion Dept. Axed $15 Mil­lion In Fed­er­al Grants Used For DEI At Three Uni­ver­si­ties

Diver­si­ty, Equi­ty, and Inclu­sion (DEI) ini­tia­tives took anoth­er hit — accord­ing to a new report released Fri­day by The Wash­ing­ton Free Bea­con — when the U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion ter­mi­nat­ed $15 mil­lion in fed­er­al grants that had been used to fund DEI pro­grams. Accord­ing to The Free Beacon’s report, the three schools in ques­tion were […]

Trump’s cuts to for­eign aid could ben­e­fit US posi­tion in Iran nego­ti­a­tions, expert says

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s deci­sion to cut for­eign aid fund­ing could strength­en the president’s bar­gain­ing posi­tion as he looks to con­tain Iran. “I look at the USAID cut­off and the praise that the Ira­ni­ans have giv­en as part of Pres­i­dent Trump’s nego­ti­at­ing skills,” EJ Kim­ball, direc­tor of Pol­i­cy & Strate­gic Oper­a­tions at the U.S. Israel Edu­ca­tion […]

Trudeau says Trump is seri­ous about Cana­da becom­ing 51st state: reports

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has for weeks sug­gest­ed that Cana­da become the Unit­ed States’ 51st state, and while opin­ion has been divid­ed about whether Trump is seri­ous or mere­ly trolling its neigh­bor, Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau has report­ed­ly said that it’s the for­mer, accord­ing to reports. In a closed-door meet­ing with Cana­di­an busi­ness and labor lead­ers, […]

Judge blocks Trump from plac­ing 2,200 USAID work­ers on leave

A fed­er­al judge on Fri­day ordered a tem­po­rary block on plans by the Trump admin­is­tra­tion to put 2,200 employ­ees of the U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment on leave. U.S. Dis­trict Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, also agreed to block an order that would have giv­en just 30 days for the thou­sands of over­seas USAID […]

Repub­li­cans in House, Sen­ate on col­li­sion course over sweep­ing Trump bud­get bill

House Repub­li­cans are rac­ing to get ahead of their Sen­ate coun­ter­parts on plans to pass sweep­ing con­ser­v­a­tive pol­i­cy leg­is­la­tion and advance Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s agen­da. Plans to take the first step in the bud­get rec­on­cil­i­a­tion process this week were scut­tled in the House, with fis­cal hawks push­ing GOP lead­ers to raise their pro­posed floor for […]

Here’s what hap­pened dur­ing Trump’s 3rd week in office

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump wel­comed Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Bena­jamin Netanyahu to the White House Tues­day, mark­ing the first vis­it from a for­eign leader dur­ing Trump’s sec­ond term.  Dur­ing Netanyahu’s vis­it, Trump also unveiled mas­sive plans sug­gest­ing that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip in a “long-term own­er­ship posi­tion” to deliv­er sta­bil­i­ty to the region.  […]

Fed­er­al judge rules not to imme­di­ate­ly block DOGE access to Labor Depart­ment sys­tems

A fed­er­al judge on Fri­day said he would not imme­di­ate­ly block the Depart­ment of Gov­ern­ment Effi­cien­cy, or DOGE, from access­ing sys­tems at the Labor Depart­ment. U.S. Dis­trict Judge John Bates said he had con­cerns about DOGE but that the labor unions who sued to block their access to the sys­tems have not yet pro­vid­ed evi­dence […]