When Tim Cook gifted President Donald Trump a gold and glass plaque last month, the Apple CEO was hailed by Wall Street for his job managing the iPhone-maker’s relationship with the White House. Cook, Wall Street commentators said, had largely navigated the threat of tariffs on Apple’s business successfully by offering Trump an additional $100 […]
Vice President JD Vance shot back at senators who clashed withHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee Thursday, saying they are ‘full of s*** and everyone knows it.’ Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., pressed Kennedy during the hearing, accusing him of endangering children with reckless decisions […]
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited his father, Robert Kennedy, a former U.S. attorney general and senator from New York, while testifying on Capitol Hill about backlash over the Trump administration’s efforts to reform the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) head signaled a […]
The Secret Service’s counter sniper team is understaffed, jeopardizing the safety of U.S. leaders like the president, according to a new inspector general report. The report comes just over one year after the counter sniper team took out the gunman who opened fire on President Donald Trump in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and as […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended the Trump administration’s firing spree at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promising ‘new blood’ will soon take over the agency. ‘America is home to 4.2% of the world’s population, yet we had nearly 20% COVID deaths,’ Kennedy said Thursday in front of the […]
As Republicans in Missouri push forward with their plan to draw Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver out of his Kansas City seat, a new poll of voters in the state is against the mid-cycle redistricting effort. Nearly half, or 48 percent, of Missouri voters oppose the move, according to a new Change Research survey commissioned by […]
House leaders do not plan to hold a vote to extend President Donald Trump’s temporary takeover of the D.C. police before it expires next week, according to three people granted anonymity to describe internal planning. Speaker Mike Johnson said as he left the House floor Thursday that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s announcement this week that […]
Shares in the Trump family’s latest cryptocurrency made its stock market debut Wednesday, triggering more ethical concerns as the Trumps look to cash in on crypto as the president’s administration weakens regulations for the nascent industry. American Bitcoin, a firm co-founded this spring by Eric Trump, the president’s son, saw its share price climb as […]
The FBI raid on John Bolton’s home last month led to the seizure of multiple computers, cell phones, USB drives and documents in folders labeled ‘Trump,’ among other items, court documents revealed Thursday. The list of over a dozen items seized from the Bethesda, Md., home of President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor was […]
Three Democratic governors on the West Coast are banding together to sidestep President Donald Trump’s health agenda – a move the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) blasted as rooted in the ‘failed politics of the pandemic.’ The governors have decided to reject Trump’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rules and create […]