"With this particular White House, you have to put pressure on the president from all directions in a consistent way to force his hand," Burkman explained. He and Wohl, lobbyists and right-wing provocateurs, had become avatars of a lucrative new cottage industry of brokers courting those seeking pardons from President Trump. read more
Board votes to 'immediately' close Kennedy Center as judge says Trump's name cannot be added ... read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused former FBI Director Christopher Wray of mishandling the investigation into the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania. read more
Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death. read more
A whistleblower is accusing Homeland Security officials of ordering agents to commit thousands of crimes by falsely identifying themselves in order to gain access to voting records as part of the Trump administration's ongoing effort to disenfranchise voters. read more
The Kentucky Republican read his impeachment resolution on the House floor, where he accused Hegseth of shredding safeguards intended to protect civilians during U.S. military operations. read more
Citizens deemed to have "harmed" China's national security or interests while overseas can also be barred from leaving China for up to three years after they return, while those who violate technological import and export regulations may also be banned from leaving. read more
Federal law prohibits armed federal officers or military personnel from being deployed to polling stations. read more
Stephen Colbert Wins Emmy After 'Late Show' Canceled by CBS and Tells Industry to Hire His Crew: 'They Will Make Your Show Better!' read more
FBI director Kash Patel defended his agency's decision to roll back restrictions on agent applicants who have previously engaged in bestiality, arguing the FBI "did not want to punish victims of bestiality" by automatically disqualifying them. read more
The U.S. workforce has just made the type of history it likely wishes it didn't. Working Americans are taking home the smallest percentage of economic output, 52.8%, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the metric in 1947. read more
Over the last few years, California has quietly but dramatically increased the resiliency of its electrical grid through a significant expansion in battery energy storage. These batteries hold onto solar energy captured during the day, so it can be sent to the grid as demand peaks ... read more
"All these mechanisms (tapping storage and national reserves) helped to mitigate the price and supply risk," Chevron (CVX) CEO Mike Wirth said Friday at an energy conference in Austin, Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. "Those have largely now played out, and we don't have nearly the buffers in the system that we did when [the Middle East war] began." read more
Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate on Monday, ending a months-long medical absence. read more
President Donald Trump has traded more securities than every member of Congress combined since he returned to office -- even as he seeks to pass a stock-purchasing ban for lawmakers that would exclude him from any restrictions. read more
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), released a response from SoftBank Group (SoftBank) confirming that SoftBank donated $50 million to President Trump's Presidential Library fund and revealing for the first time that it came just two months prior to the Trump administration's announcement of a massive land lease deal for a SoftBank data center. The response indicated that the $50 million donation was made in January 2026; the lease agreement was announced in March 2026. This sequence of events raises significant concerns about potential corruption, and whether SoftBank's donation was an attempt to buy favorable treatment from President Trump and the Trump Administration. read more
