Walmart, the largest retailer in the nation, has announced it is raising prices because of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The retail giant said on Thursday that it may absorb some of the import taxes, but it is still raising prices to offset increased costs resulting from Trump’s ill-advised trade war. …
Read More »Republicans' Health Care Plan: Dr. AI Will See You Now
Four months into Donald Trump’s presidency, his and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to “Make America Healthy Again” appears to be taking shape: It consists of throwing millions of Americans off their health insurance plans, making Americans pay more for health care in various ways, and slashing health spending and …
Read More »Trump to Qatar, Which Is Giving Him a Jet: 'We Are Going to Protect You'
Donald Trump and his administration are planning to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, one that Trump’s presidential library will reportedly take possession of after he leaves office. The blatant corruption has drawn outrage from Democrats as well as some of Trump’s closest allies, while Trump has lashed …
Read More »Supreme Court Entertains Trump's Efforts To Neuter Federal Courts
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday regarding the Trump administration’s attack on birthright citizenship — the constitutional right to citizenship of any child born on U.S. soil. The ruling could reshape the judicial system if things swing in Trump’s favor. The judges aren’t being asked to rule directly on …
Read More »10 Terrible Policies in Trump and the GOP's Bill to Cut Taxes for the Rich
After weeks of internal deliberations, backroom tug-of-wars, and public policy disputes, Republicans have their first drafts of the committee bills that will encompass President Donald Trump’s much coveted “big, beautiful” reconciliation package. While the working masses will be thrown a couple bones, the legislative package is at its core a …
Read More »RFK Jr.: 'I Don't Think People Should Be Taking Medical Advice From Me'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress put in charge of the nation’s health systems, doesn’t think he’s qualified to dispense medical advice. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine conspiracy theorist, was asked about the measles vaccine during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday. The United …
Read More »Kristi Noem Ignores the Law — and Reality — in Tense Immigration Hearing
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The leader of the Trump administration’s deportation push had a lot to answer for. In a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, Democrats grilled Noem about the arrest of Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka; the …
Read More »Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intelligence Officials Who Contradicted Trump
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top two National Intelligence Council officials just weeks after the NIC wrote an intelligence report rebuking some of the Trump administration’s claims about the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. According to a Wednesday report from Fox News, Gabbard fired National Intelligence …
Read More »What's at Stake as Trump's Assault on Birthright Citizenship Heads to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship on Thursday. Trump signed the order, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” on the first day of his second term, but it has since been halted by nationwide injunctions issued by …
Read More »Trump's ICE Used a Woman's Kids and Grandchild as 'Bait' to Arrest Her
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira last week in Worcester, Massachusetts, the situation rapidly devolved into chaos and community outrage. Multiple recordings of the incident went viral, but what bystanders did not capture on video was how federal agents were able to draw Ferreira-De Oliveira …
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