President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a task force to oversee the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and he’s putting himself in charge of it. The task force will coordinate federal planning for transportation, security and visa processing for the 2028 games. Mr. Trump said he’s directing agencies like the State Department
President Trump fired five of the eight members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight Management Board, which oversees the U.S. territory’s budget plan. The island has been trying to find its way to fiscal solvency after struggling with its debt for years. Mr. Trump dismissed the board’s chairman Arthur J. Gonzalez, Cameron McKenzie, Betty A. Rosa,
The Republican president leapt from a window in an attempt to break quorum. James Talarico’s chartered flight featured leather seats and flight attendants. Texas state representative James Talarico (D.) compared himself to Abraham Lincoln while touting his party’s walkout to block Republican efforts to pass a new congressional map. But while the Great Emancipator attempted
After Biden administration climate adviser Jake Levine announced his campaign to represent California’s 32nd Congressional District, his wife, MSNBC host Jacqueline Alemany, took to X to assure the public that she will uphold journalistic standards. “As a journalist, it’s paramount to respect certain boundaries on my support,” Alemany wrote on Tuesday. “That means I won’t
Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) speaks to reporters about a GOP meeting on a reconciliation bill on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 15, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—A former Army warrant officer has launched a campaign for New York’s First Congressional District seat during the 2026 election. Christopher “Chris” Gallant is a native of
Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell are arguing against the Justice Department’s attempt to unseal grand jury testimony against her, writing in a court filing Tuesday that their client “has no choice but to respectfully oppose” the potential release. “Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not,” Maxwell’s attorney David Markus wrote in
Latest financial disclosure from Bowman’s Built to Win PAC shows $3k on hand, $47k in debts Jamaal Bowman (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) It’s a PAC of lies. Former congressman Jamaal Bowman left Congress claiming he had received commitments “in the millions” for his new Built to Win PAC, but his most recent federal financial disclosures show