Month: May 2025
May 08, 2025
Congress
Senate crypto negotiations remain in flux following 11th-hour meeting
Senators emerged Wednesday evening from closed-door negotiations over cryptocurrency legislation without a deal to trumpet, leaving the landmark digital assets bill in flux ahead of a key procedural vote...
May 08, 2025
Politics
FBI chief Kash Patel turns tables on Democrat accusing him of weaponizing bureau
Rep. Madeleine Dean accused Patel of using an appendix of names from his 2023 book “Government Gangsters" as an “enemies list.” Rep. Madeleine Dean accused Patel of using an...
May 08, 2025
Politics
RFK Jr. asked Obama to probe ‘two gunmen’ theory, called for reexamination of his father’s assassination: new files
The current Trump administration official’s September 2012 letter to former Attorney General Eric Holder was part of thousands of documents released by the National Archives Wednesday related to the federal investigation...
May 07, 2025
Congress
GOP lawmakers in ‘robust’ talks with White House over $9B cutbacks
House Republicans are privately negotiating with the White House over the makeup of President Donald Trump’s forthcoming request to nix $9.3 billion already allocated for the State Department, foreign...
May 07, 2025
Politics
Trump administration to rescind ‘overly complex’ Biden-era curbs on AI chips
"We will be replacing it with a much simpler rule that unleashes American innovation and ensures American AI dominance," a Commerce Department spokesperson said. "We will be replacing it...
May 07, 2025
Politics
FBI ‘can’t do the mission’ on White House’s proposed budget for the bureau, Kash Patel says
“We are focusing our energies on how not to have them cut, by coming in here and highlighting to you that we can't do the mission on those 2011...
May 07, 2025
Congress
Trump touts ‘great progress’ as Republicans quarrel over his megabill
President Donald Trump is declaring that Republicans are “making great progress” as the GOP conference wrangles with key policy holdups that could delay the package central to his agenda....
May 07, 2025
Politics
Trump backs Lawler’s re-election to House seat, spurring talk of Elise Stefanik for governor
President Trump issued an early endorsement of Republican Rep. Mike Lawler's re-election next year for a battleground House swing district in the Hudson Valley. President Trump issued an early...
May 07, 2025
Politics
Female fencer who took a knee rather than face trans athlete recalls ‘betrayal’ by sport’s boss: ‘I cried the whole night’
Stephanie Turner, 31, took a knee instead of fencing against Redmond Sullivan, a 20-year-old who was born biologically male, at USA Fencing’s Cherry Blossom Open in Maryland on March 30....
May 07, 2025
Politics
Trump warns Iran over nuclear sites: We can ‘blow ‘em up nicely or blow ‘em up viciously’
President Trump publicly promised Iran Wednesday that he would bring the country's nuclear project to an end -- one way or another. President Trump publicly promised Iran Wednesday that...