Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount. Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts, FCC commissioners are compromising the agency's impartiality and should avoid acting on Paramount's pending merger. After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took tickets worth over $12,000. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has accepted tickets worth at least $63,000.
The 38-year-old has since ridden more than 118,000 miles and visited 80 different countries on her bike, documenting it all for 3.3 million fans on YouTube who follow her from dirt roads in South Africa to river crossings in Ecuador.
She told her story in her 2025 memoir, Free Ride, and her next book, Beyond Fear, is due in 2027.
This launches efforts to undermine election trust, challenge midterm results, and centralize power through narrative control and institutional changes.
"You heard the president talk about how he wants to effectively double the funding for national defense. Look, we live in dangerous times. We're fighting communism on our own shores, and we're fighting evil terrorists and tyrants around the world, and we have to be able to protect our national security," Johnson said.
After Maine Democrats warned him to stay out of choosing Graham Platner's replacement in their senate race, US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Israel) boldly announced: "I'm staying out" of the Maine Senate Race. D'uh.
Status quo, AIPAC Democrats, Republicans, and dinosaurs do not want to to abolish ICE or DHS, but "tweak" them a little. Uh-huh.Read more
Why New Yorkers voted for Democrat Zohran Mamdani
The morbidly obese draft-dodging President of the United States -- who easily develops crushes on handsome young men " and is reportedly undergoing dementia treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) at no cost to him whatsoever -- posted an AI photo of himself in the Oval Office bleating at European leaders with a map of the American flag covering Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela.
Time for the 25th Amendment and POTUS JD Vance?
After Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) invested over a billion dollars to transform the Everglades runway into an immigration detention center, all traces of the concentration camp are gone. And the diabolical Trumpf junta continues to stiff Florida on the promised $800 million-plus for the cost of building and operating the now atomized gulag.
Evidence of torture, crime, and blasphemies -- as well as a billion dollars of taxpayer money -- all down the drain and to contractors
A 28-year-old Mexican man died in an apparent traffic accident Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week. The man ran away from agents and was hit by a truck, Florida Highway Patrol Master Sergeant Dylan Bryan told the Miami Herald. FHP was not involved in the operation, but is currently investigating the incident, which took place shortly before 7 am.
This is the third person to have died in an incident involving ICE since July 7. The deaths come as federal and state agencies in Florida have been picking up people at workplaces, public sites, and streets under President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign.
US President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran's bridges and power plants next week if it did not return to talks. The comments in a Fox News interview aired as the two countries exchanged fire for the fourth day in a row. Trump earlier reversed a threat of a 20% fee on all Strait of Hormuz cargo shipping but resumed blockading Iranian ports. Read more
The Trump administration is coming under fire for its response to the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a foodborne illness that causes explosive diarrhea and has so far been documented in more than two dozen states. Public health officials still have not identified the source of the outbreak, which typically spreads via contaminated produce. Awan added that mass firings at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the leadership of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., were hindering CDC's ability to track the disease. "The HHS and the federal government laid off a lot of CDC employees," said Awan. "Many of them were the very employees that would track these particular outbreaks. And the other is that, from July of 2025 last year, the CDC has no longer required reporting cyclosporiasis.
Senate Democrats on Tuesday defeated a motion to proceed to the $1.15 trillion annual defense authorization bill, legislation that usually enjoys strong bipartisan support but this year has become snarled in a partisan fight over defense spending levels.
Trump Gives Away the Game on Why He Wants Todd Blanche as A.G.
Donald Trump made his case for appointing his former personal attorney as attorney general.
Donald Trump has resorted to begging the Senate to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to officially run the Justice Department.
In a lengthy Truth Social post Tuesday, the president claimed that Blanche was responsible for the lowest murder rates in 125 years but that arrests for violent crime were simultaneously "UP 100" percent.
July 14 (Reuters) -- Warren Buffett has stopped donating to the Gates Foundation, ending a two-decade philanthropic partnership following revelations about interactions between Microsoft (MSFT.O) co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read more
California voters will decide in November whether politicians can receive taxpayer-funded campaign money under a ballot measure that would repeal the state's decades-old ban on public financing. Proposition 4, titled the Allow Public Financing of Election Campaigns measure, will appear on the Nov. 3 statewide ballot. If approved, the measure would allow local governments across California to establish programs that use taxpayer dollars to finance political campaigns, repealing the ban established in 1988 by Proposition 73, which prohibited the use of public funds for election campaigns. Critics say the proposal would force taxpayers to subsidize political campaigns at a time when many Californians are struggling with affordability. Several California cities, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, already operate campaign financing programs,
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
