Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday heaped criticism on President Trump’s move to issue a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian goods, in part to protest the legal proceedings against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a top Trump ally. Paul, a foremost Republican critic against Trump’s tariff policy, said the latest tariff, which Trump said would…
Nick Adams, a 40-year-old Australian native and self-described “alpha male” who has been a staunch Trump supporter for years, has been nominated by President Trump as the next ambassador to Malaysia.
The Obamas are teaming up with Larry David to produce a six-episode sketch comedy series on HBO to mark the country’s 250th anniversary, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery announced Thursday. The untitled limited series will focus on American history and will be executive produced by David, Jeff Schaffer and Higher Ground, the media company founded…
The number of local journalists per capita in the United States has declined by about 75 percent on average since 2002, according to a report by the nonprofit Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack, an aggregator of journalism bylines. That includes more than 1,000 counties — about 1 in 3 — that do not have…
Israel has concluded that some of Iran’s enriched uranium survived the U.S.’s recent strikes on the country, The New York Times reported. A senior Israeli official told the Times that the country found American and Israeli attacks did not destroy a portion of an Iranian underground stockpile of enriched uranium, with Iranian nuclear engineers still…
The United Nations (UN) is pushing back against the United States after President Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese on Wednesday. The spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, said during a Thursday briefing that the Trump administration’s move to slap sanctions on Albanese, who…
White House budget chief Russell Vought on Thursday accused Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of mismanaging the central bank’s budget during renovations, adding to President Trump’s criticism of Powell. Vought, in a letter to Powell, said Trump is “extremely troubled” that he has “plowed ahead with an ostentatious overhaul” of the Fed’s headquarters in Washington,…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Thursday slammed former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for being disliked among Washington’s political elite. “I know people who have worked with them closely, and maybe talk to people closely, those people will tell you that they’re about as popular as male pattern baldness,” Kennedy…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday arrested two alleged members of the MS-13 gang in Omaha, Neb. Rene Saul Escobar Ochoa, 30, is described by ICE in a news release as “a criminal alien, known MS-13 gang member and foreign terrorist also wanted in El Salvador.” “Escobar Ochoa is accused of giving orders to fellow gang…
The Senate Appropriations Committee sputtered Thursday as its consideration of the annual Justice Department funding bill was cut short due to a dispute over the Trump administration’s plans to relocate FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Senate committee met Thursday morning for its first markup of the fiscal year 2026 funding season to consider three…
