Politics

A former Jan. 6 defendant who urged rioters attacking the police guarding the U.S. Capitol to “Kill ’em! Kill ’em!” … is now working for the Trump Justice Department. He has been hired in a senior role in a unit tasked with unwinding the alleged “weaponization” of government against conservatives. …

Today just after midnight, steep retaliatory tariffs President Donald Trump slapped on dozens of countries went into effect. “IT’S MIDNIGHT!!! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS ARE NOW FLOWING INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!” the president wrote on Truth Social minutes before the levies snapped into effect. “Tariffs are flowing …

CINCINNATI — Since July 9, Ayman Soliman, who served for years as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, has been held at the Butler County Jail in Ohio. His arrest by Donald Trump’s quota-obsessed ICE, during a routine federal check-in, sparked a local outcry, largely due to his well-established …

Donald Trump is still trying to take over the Library of Congress — but the national library already, apparently by accident, modified its online copy of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president’s least favorite part: the provision that guarantees people’s right to challenge their detention and demands the government …

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it will be ending its mRNA vaccine development program, and former Surgeon General Jerome Adams is warning that “this move is going to cost lives.” In a video released on Tuesday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine …

The Department of Homeland Security has moved to forcibly reassign a subset of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), threatening them with termination if they do not agree. According to an email obtained by The American Prospect, a “select” number of probationary employees at …

Donald Trump and Republicans are nervous about the 2026 midterms. The president’s polling numbers are very bad (despite what he claims), and it doesn’t seem like Americans are thrilled with his lackeys in Congress who have supported the administration’s assault on Medicaid and other social services, his hardline immigration crackdown, …

Keeping a straight face has been perhaps the greatest achievement of Mark Carney’s brief tenure as the prime minister of Canada. For months, Donald Trump has railed against Canada, threatening to turn America’s ungrateful northern neighbor into the 51st state, come what may, an achievement worthy of his visage gracing …

Racists have for centuries attempted to justify their belief that they are made of superior stock by making absurdist, unfounded claims about the supposed innate differences between races. Today, President Donald Trump appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss the economic impacts of his first months in office, as well …

Sydney Sweeney absolutely caused a digital kerfuffle with her “good jeans” advertising campaign with American Eagle, but it’s actually not crybaby liberals who are hopelessly obsessing over the Euphoria actor’s jeans, genes, body, and politics — it’s Republicans and Fox News. According to a report published by CNN’s Reliable Sources …