Acting FDIC Chair Promises ‘Wholesale Review’ of Regulatory Priorities

Travis Hill detailed new priorities for FDIC oversight, focusing on mergers, technology, and bank failures in 2023 in order to grow the U.S. economy. The new Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) acting chair under President Donald Trump laid out a series of priorities aimed at streamlining the agency’s approach to bank oversight in a statement

Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website that the FBI once called “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet.”  Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015. Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media site, that he had

Mayhem at Columbia: Pro-Hamas Students Storm Classroom, Target Jewish Students With Anti-Semitic Flyers on First Day of Spring Semester

Anti-Israel student activists unleashed mayhem at Columbia University on Tuesday afternoon, which marked the beginning of the spring semester. Several keffiyeh-clad student activists stormed an Israeli history class and passed out anti-Semitic flyers glorifying Hamas, depicting the Star of David being crushed, and promising violence. Others vandalized the campus and called on their followers to

22 states sue Trump administration over birthright citizenship order

A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday to stop President Trump’s executive order that seeks to eliminate birthright citizenship. Mr. Trump invoked presidential powers to begin his long-promised immigration crackdown shortly after taking office on Monday. His executive actions included an order directing the federal government to stop issuing

Meet the ‘Crunchy’ Moms Who Support RFK Jr. as Health Secretary

A term once reserved for granola-eating hippies, “crunchy” moms has evolved into a label for women who embrace a more natural lifestyle for their families. These are women who favor herbal treatments over physician-prescribed and over-the-counter medications, cooking with butter or beef tallow instead of seed oils, examining food labels at the grocery store, and