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Of the 130 major rules challenged under the Biden administration, a whopping 16 percent were challenged before just two jurists.

Republican megadonor Ken Langone argued that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has the best chance of defeating New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani in the general election to lead the country’s largest city. Langone, who also donated to the super PAC backing Cuomo’s candidacy during the Democratic primary, said Tuesday on CNBC that he…

Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the process to pick a new chair of the Federal Reserve has started, ahead of Chair Jerome Powell’s term ending in 2026 and amid growing pressure from the White House for him to step aside early. “There’s a formal process that’s already starting,” Bessent told Bloomberg Television,…

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said he’ll support a package of more than $9 billion in cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting after making a deal with the Trump administration. Rounds said Tuesday that he worked with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on a deal that would redirect some funding approved under the…

President Trump’s budget effectively decommissions the ISS despite years of potential usefulness still ahead. 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says the Senate is on track to vote Tuesday evening on a package clawing back approximately $9.4 billion in congressionally approved spending, making the announcement shortly after locking down Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a key vote. Thune told The Hill that the Senate is on track to vote Tuesday…

The CBS/Paramount payout to Trump is chump change by the standards of big media corporations. But the size of the payout is irrelevant. That CBS would sell its First Amendment rights for any amount of money is humiliating. 

Russian leaders responded flippantly Tuesday to the Trump administration’s threat of “severe” tariffs if Moscow doesn’t quickly come to a peace agreement with Ukraine. “Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin. The world shuddered, expecting the consequences,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, wrote in a post on…

The Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago featured a variety of extreme views, including calls to dismantle the United States, and a biennial convention will be held in August.

Actor Kevin Spacey is demanding the release of all the files and names associated with late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s case. In a Tuesday morning post on X, Spacey called for the release of the files, adding that the “truth can’t come soon enough.” “Release the Epstein files. All of them,” he wrote. “For those of us with…