WASHINGTON (AP) — Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright confirmed as energy secretary, a key role in Trump’s quest for US 'energy dominance.'
The Trump White House press secretary's gaffe prompted two words to trend online.
President Donald Trump called for CBS News program 60 Minutes to be “immediately terminated” and its network shut down Thursday, as he escalated campaign threats to punish media outlets that don’t offer coverage to his liking. He also tried to shoehorn the network into an online rightwing conspiracy theory that falsely claimed media outlets took millions in government kickbacks. In a post on Truth Social, Trump reiterated his claim that 60 Minutes committed “election interference” last year by a
The president appeared grossly out of touch in talking about the price of transportation.
A former four-star Coast Guard admiral was forced to leave behind most of her belongings after the Trump administration gave her just three hours to vacate her home on Tuesday, according to NBC News. Linda Fagan, an ex-Coast Guard commandant who was also the first female leader of a military branch, was evicted from her home at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling by the Department of Homeland Security after she was fired by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day. A Homeland Security official confir
Musk shared a misleading video Tuesday, falsely claiming that it showed the Minnesota Democrat "breaking the law."
In the hours before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a 30-day pause on US President Donald Trump’s threatened 25% tariff on Canadian goods, the co-founder of one of Canada’s largest auto parts manufacturers was bewildered.
Donald Trump has vowed to build a $100 million ballroom in the White House – the first major renovation to the presidential mansion in over 70 years. Trump said he is good at building party rooms – the glitzy Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom takes pride of place at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. Countering any suggestion that a ballroom would be an indulgence while Elon Musk’s DOGE team is stripping federal budgets, Trump said he would pick up the tab for the ambitious project himself.
"They think the orange buffoon is 'winning,' when in fact, the US is in the process of making enemies of the rest of the world."
The late night host shows how right-wingers haven't thought this one through.
MP Charlie Angus said Trump has “poked the polar bear.”
The apparent origin story to President Donald Trump’s reinvention of Gaza has been revealed. During a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, Trump unveiled a wild card plan involving a U.S. “take over” of the Gaza Strip to redevelop it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Though it came as a surprise to many, Trump has reportedly been mulling it over for some time. “The president has said he’s been socializing this idea for quite some time. He’s been thin
When President Trump pushed ahead with a 10% tariff on all Chinese merchandise, he also closed the century-old de minimis exemption, which allows packages worth under $800 to be shipped into the country duty-free.
The Minnesota senator mocked the president's supporters at the Washington Press Club Foundation Annual Congressional Dinner.
Donald Trump’s aides rejected a request from Elon Musk to bring in a foreign national to help gut the federal government, according to a new report, as the president has sought to make it clear who’s in charge. The world’s richest man wanted Baris Akis, a Turkish-born venture capitalist who holds a green card, to join his DOGE initiative, an advisory committee that calls itself the “department” of government efficiency, The Atlantic reported on Tuesday. The law typically doesn’t allow noncitizen
Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s pitch to relocate millions of Gazans and have the U.S. take over the territory was “crazy”—and for proof, she said, just look at his chief of staff’s face after he floated the idea. “If you want to know how crazy the idea is, you have to look no further than Susie Wiles’ face as he said it,” Tarlov told her colleagues on The Five. “We know where the idea came from. Last year, Jared Kushner said you could get some really great water
‘She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and 10 grandchildren,’ the family said in a statement
The new attorney general got a poor review from the get-go by the former federal prosecutor
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he won’t attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg later this month, saying South Africa’s support for DEI and climate change policies are “very bad things.” “I will NOT attend the G20 summit,” Rubio wrote in a post on X, saying, “South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change.” It would be highly unusual for the secretary of state to skip
CNN’s data guru expressed astonishment Wednesday at new polling which reveals DOGE supremo Elon Musk is even more unpopular than his boss, Donald Trump. Harry Enten, the network’s senior data correspondent, revealed research by Quinnipiac which showed 53% of people oppose him having a key role in the Trump administration. Speaking on CNN News Central, he told anchor Sara Sidner, “I think simply put, the American people did not sign up for this. They voted in Donald Trump. They did not vote in El
The odds of a government shutdown are surging as President Trump battles Democrats over efforts to freeze funding and Republicans brawl internally over the size and scope of potential cuts. With a mid-March deadline fast approaching, negotiators on Capitol Hill have yet to agree on the top-line numbers to guide the extension of federal funding…
