I haven’t seen Chuck Schumer so happy in months. There he was Wednesday, practically ready to burst into song while celebrating the Trump administration’s withdrawal of a memo ordering a federal spending freeze. “Americans made their voices heard,” Schumer crowed. “Donald Trump rescinded the OMB order.” Schumer was too giddy to tell the full story.
Newsom officials couldn’t confirm that no taxpayer money would be used to shield illegal aliens with felony convictions Gavin Newsom (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) California Democratic lawmakers suddenly canceled Thursday’s vote on their high-profile $50 million plan to fight President Donald Trump with no clear timeline for moving forward. The delay came as
Burgum and Wright figure will be at the forefront of Trump’s ‘energy dominance’ agenda Doug Burgum (Alex Wong/Getty Images), Chris Wright (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) The Senate voted Thursday evening to confirm former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum (R.) to lead the Interior Department and, in a subsequent vote, teed up a floor vote to consider
Late Wednesday night, Columbia University’s leading anti-Israel group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), shared a video of its latest act of anarchy. At Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), toilets were clogged with cement. A Columbia Business School building, meanwhile, was soaked with red paint. Columbia quickly released a statement calling the acts
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s intelligence director nominee, walked back some of her past defenses of foreign adversaries and criticism of U.S. government surveillance but repeatedly refused to call CIA leaker Edward Snowden a “traitor” in a combative confirmation hearing on Thursday. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who became a Trump ally in recent years,
Former CNN host promises to ‘bro out’ in premiere episode plagued by charmless banter, technical difficulties Jim Acosta, the widely despised journalist, resigned from CNN this week and followed in the footsteps of another obnoxious journalist, former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, by launching a new website on Substack to defend democracy or whatever. He
Investigation comes a year after NPR editor resigned over outlet’s ‘devastating’ bias Brendan Carr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), NPR station (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), former PBS building (Thomson200/Wikimedia Commons) The Federal Communications Commission is investigating NPR and PBS over whether their member stations are airing sponsorships that violate federal rules against commercial advertising on public broadcasters. NPR