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Parents ‘spitting mad’ at Trump Cabinet member after grilling on Capitol Hill: report
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon had to face heated questions about her cuts and changes to programs in her department. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) grilled McMahon for plans to shift programs for special education and disabled students to other agencies, like the Department of Labor and Health and Human Services. Murray told McMahon that the
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‘Ludicrous’: Expert warns new revenge bid is so weak it could get DOJ lawyers disbarred
A legal expert said during a new interview on CNN that he is shocked that the Trump administration returned another indictment against former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. Ryan Goodman, editor in chief of Just Security, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on her show, “OutFront,” that “it was a shock” that a grand jury returned
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Ex-Sen. Ben Sasse laments how people have ‘stopped making babies’
Former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse lamented how current generations have “stopped having babies” despite living in a richer world. “What in the world is happening with the natalism crisis?” Sasse asked on “60 Minutes Overtime” Sunday. “All across the industrialized, rich world, people have just stopped having babies in the last couple of decades.” Sasse
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Climate change is already showing up in the cost of living
In the summer of 2022, a heat wave in Europe drove temperatures to a record-breaking 115 degrees in Spain, scorching its olive-growing regions. In the U.K., chickens wilted in the heat, leading to a 9% drop in chicken-meat production from the year before. Northern Italy, meanwhile, endured its worst drought in 70 years, slashing harvests
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Trump quietly telling insiders to prepare for ‘extended’ blockade of Iran: report
President Donald Trump is quietly telling administration insiders to prepare for an “extended” blockade of Iran as negotiations to end the war with the regime drag on. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing “U.S. officials,” that Trump has told his aides that the blockade of Iran will continue, as the two sides remain
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Trump’s ‘shockingly tone-deaf’ obsession mocked on MS NOW as spin machine sputters
President Donald Trump is taking more heat than ever for his controversial White House ballroom project — and his usual deflection tactics to divide his critics are simply not working anymore, former GOP strategist Tim Miller told MS NOW’s Chris Hayes on Tuesday. This comes as a small group of Republicans tries to capitalize on
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‘Crazy loophole’ exposed that keeps migrants locked up based on which judge they get
A lawyer is sounding the alarm on a “crazy loophole” in a law that allows judges to keep migrants jailed while other judges have ruled the law shouldn’t apply. “This is not a procedural quirk. It is a betrayal of the foundational promise of American law: that the rules apply equally to everyone,” lawyer Alexander
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Michael Goodwin: The Dems’ newest phrase into raging at the GOP is to go ‘Kill yourself’
In almost any other era, the hostile exchange between EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro would have been an instant embarrassment on Capitol Hill. But at a time when political violence is becoming frighteningly common and widely accepted, DeLauro’s nasty suggestion that Zeldin drink a glass of weed killer marked just another
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House Republican delivers vulgar verdict blasting Mike Johnson’s shutdown strategy
A House Republican offered a vulgar take on Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) strategy to end the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new report. DHS has been shut down for several months after Democrats refused to pass a bill to fund the agency. The Democrats dug in after President
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Tristan Thompson files for conservatorship over 19-year-old brother Amari
Tristan Thompson has filed for conservatorship over his younger brother Amari. The NBA athlete, 35, filed to be Amari’s limited conservator on Monday, in documents obtained by Page Six. Per the docs, Amari, 19, is “unable to properly provide for his personal needs for physical health, food, clothing or shelter,” and “suffers from an intellectual