Politics

While Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kritsi Noem is busy cosplaying as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent — and pointing a rifle at an actual agent’s head while she does it — Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is plotting how to turn the U.S. immigration enforcement system into …

The National Park Service restored an image of Harriet Tubman and a quote from her on a webpage about the Underground Railroad on Monday. The move came after backlash over reports that the page had reduced the emphasis on the prolific abolitionist to highlight other abolitionists, including two white people, …

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a massive win on Monday, voting 5-4 to allow his administration to continue rapidly deporting alleged gang members using the Alien Enemies Act. The law, passed in 1798, gives presidents the authority to remove foreign nationals over the age of 14 from countries …

Millions of Americans flooded into the streets Saturday to protest president Donald Trump; his Department of Government Efficiency hatchet man Elon Musk; the GOP’s agenda to pay for tax cuts for the richest with cuts to Medicaid; preposterous cuts to science, health, and education; Trump’s mistreatment of trans kids and …

China is not taking kindly to Donald Trump‘s trade war. The president is not taking kindly to China not taking kindly to his tariffs, and the White House announced on Tuesday that imports from China will now be slapped with a whopping 104-percent tax. “When America is punched [Trump] punches …

Elon Musk may have bought himself influence over President Donald Trump’s administration, but public criticism of the president remains out of his budget. Instead — as the world braces for Trump’s tariff regime to go into effect at midnight on Tuesday — Musk is picking fights with a fellow presidential …

Across the federal government, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access to untold volumes of data containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. The data includes information like addresses, tax filings, family members, and medical records for everyone from average citizens receiving Social …

President Donald Trump’s tariff regime goes into effect at midnight on Tuesday, and some Republican lawmakers can barely contain how much they hate it. As markets crater, and tensions escalate between the United States and its most important trade partners, elected Republicans must be realizing that they will be among …

Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign was backed in part by millions of dollars from cryptocurrency firms and wealthy investors in the industry. In return, he has sought to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world,” signing an executive order on “strengthening American leadership in digital financial technology” and announcing …

Donald Trump said today he is not deliberately tanking the stock market, following his extreme tariff announcement last week, though the president indicated it’s OK if Americans suffer as a result of his economic policies. Speaking with reporters on Air Force One, Trump was asked if there was a level …