The White House is ordering a wide-ranging review of the Smithsonian museums and exhibitions ahead of the country's 250th birthday with a goal of aligning the institution's content with President Donald Trump's interpretation of American history. read more
The companies expected to create U.S. President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome for America" know the objective: to protect the U.S. from missiles and airborne threats. read more
The West Wing has created a scorecard that rates 553 companies and trade associations on how hard they worked to support and promote President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," a senior White House official tells Axios. read more
No matter what happens at President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin today, Trump will have Sean Hannity there right afterward to help him spin it positively. read more
Chicago Federal Reserve president Austan Goolsbee described President Trump's wide-ranging tariffs as “stagflationary” on Friday, expressing a mainline view of tariffs among central bankers that's prompted the Fed to maintain its pause on interest rate cuts, cuts, much to the frustration of the president.
U.S. consumer sentiment softened in August as households anticipated higher goods prices because of import tariffs. "This deterioration largely stems from rising worries about inflation," Joanne Hsu, the director of the Surveys of Consumers, said in a statement.
James Dolan, the owner of Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks, maintains an "attorney exclusion list" from his venues that uses facial recognition to keep thousands of them out of events. All attorneys at a firm that sues MSG get the banhammer. "We always are getting notice letters," said the personal injury litigator John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan. "I get letters. My wife gets letters. My kids get letters." He responded by setting up SueMSG.com looking for new cases.
Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is flush with cash after the president signed his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, so it should probably come as no surprise that the agency has decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new trucks to showcase in social media posts. read more
For decades, the country has struggled under deeply adverse demographics, with deaths outpacing births and successive waves of mass emigration. Russian officials have tried desperately to mitigate this downward trajectory, but to little avail. read more
Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Friday challenging President Donald Trump's unprecedented takeover of the U.S. capital city's police force. "The Administration's actions are brazenly unlawful," Schwalb said in a statement after the suit's filing in U.S. District Court in D.C. read more
A lawsuit filed in Louisiana on behalf of two mothers and their four minor children, including one with cancer, claims the two families were unlawfully denied due process ... read more
Democracy Docket: Masked and armed federal agents made arrests outside a press conference that Gov. Gavin Newsom was giving to announce plans to redraw California's congressional map to offset the GOP's unprecedented mid-term redistricting plans in Texas. "Right outside, at this exact moment, are dozens and dozens of ICE agents," Newsom said. "You think it's coincidental? Donald Trump and his minions decided, coincidentally or not, that this was a location to advance ICE arrests." read more
Nearly 42 million people receive SNAP (food stamp) benefits to help supplement their grocery budgets. Able-bodied SNAP recipients who are between 18 and 54 and don't have children have always been required to work. Around 1.2 million veterans with lower incomes, or about 8% of the total veteran population of 16.2 million, rely on SNAP for themselves and their families. Veterans have been exempt from the work rules. But Trump's 'BBB' eliminates that exemption. Beginning in 2026, veterans will have to prove they are working, volunteering, participating in job training, or looking for work for at least 80 hours a month to keep their food stamps beyond three months, unless they qualify for another exemption, such as having certain disabilities. read more
A failed Republican political candidate was sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for his convictions in a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque in the aftermath of the 2020 election. read more
The former chief executive of a Russian state-run leasing company was arrested in Dubai's largest shopping center in a rare extradition operation carried out by Russian intelligence, exiled investigative outlet The Insider reported. read more
The White House said E.J. Antoni was in town for meetings unrelated to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. read more
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