Aaron Rupar and Noah Berlatsky: Donald Trump's first actions back in the White House included demolishing an air travel security advisory group, forcing out the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for corrupt reasons, implementing a hiring freeze for air traffic controllers ... read more
Donald Trump will impose sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday, the White House said, potentially setting the stage for a damaging trade war between the US and three of its biggest trading partners. read more
Former North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson announced via social media on Friday, Jan. 31 that he is dropping his defamation lawsuit against CNN and indefinitely retiring from politics. read more
Paul Rosenzweig: Trump's team is savvy and has been planning to remake the federal government for years. read more
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, a 1960s British pop star, died in her London home. She was 78. read more
Trump's border czar Tom Homan, complained that immigrants in sanctuary cities are "very difficult" to arrest because they are "educated" about their rights when it comes to ICE raids. read more
Chauncey Devega: In a bold new essay, Thom Hartmann defines the goal of Trump and the MAGA movement's revolutionary project: "Trump is hell-bent-for-leather to turn America into a tin pot dictatorship as fast as he can, establishing the same sort of single-party state his mentors, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbn, run in Russia and Hungary." read more
The Federal Aviation Administration's leader stepped down on Jan. 20, months after Elon Musk demanded that he quit. read more
President Donald Trump's official meme coin isn't just rubbing some cryptocurrency executives the wrong way -- it's also annoying some of his run-of-the-mill MAGA supporters. read more
The Dotard-in-Chief visited a Trumpf Organization property on 428 of the 1,461 days (30%) of his first presidential term and is estimated to have played 261 rounds of golf, one every 5.6 days. One of Trumpf's campaign pledges was to immediately lower the price of eggs and gasoline for American consumers. Since being in office, both prices have increased while the Dotard-in-Chief golfed twice already. The ingenious Trumpf Golf Tracker monitors the time His Imperial Majesty is on the links while "Rome burns." read more
The day after the mostly deadly plane crash in more than a decade, President Donald Trump appointed a leader to the FAA. read more
The unexpected jump in global temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning LA fires and the deadly Valencia floods, leaving researchers scrambling for explanations. read more
One of the hallmarks of Donald Trump's presidential campaign was a promise of sweeping tax cuts, for the rich, for working people and for companies alike. Now congressional Republicans have the job of figuring out which of those cuts to propose into law. In order to pay for the cuts, they have started to eye some targets to raise money. Among them: cutting benefits for single mothers and poor people who rely on government health care. read more
President Trump's new head of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting. read more
Vox writes about RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearing for health secretary. Sen. Elizabeth Warren tried multiple times to get RFK Jr. to commit to not take money from lawsuits against drug companies. read more
Suni Williams surpasses the most time by a woman on EVA during a spacewalk with Butch Wilmore outside the International Space Station. read more
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