Tuesday

03-03-2026 Vol 19

Month: May 2025

Trump to ban risky — and controversial — virus research that likely led to COVID pandemic

The order will yank funding from "any present and all future" gain-of-function research. The order will yank funding from "any present and all future" gain-of-function research.

Reopened Alcatraz ‘certainly an option’ for migrant detention beds, border czar says

Reopening Alcatraz -- which closed in 1963 and has operated as a museum since -- "should be on the table," Tom Homan told reporters outside the White House. Reopening...

House Republicans set flurry of meetings on GOP megabill

House Republicans have planned a slew of meetings this week that they hope will resolve huge political battles over their massive domestic policy bill as they race the clock...

Lefty groups behind ‘grassroots’ May Day protests in US propped up by billionaires and dark-money network: ‘Hypocrisy … is glaring’

"These organizations project the illusion of being driven by everyday Americans, but in reality they're being bankrolled by some of the biggest dark-money megadonors in politics,'' said Caitlin Sutherland,...

Trump wanted Ukraine minerals deal to get ‘leverage’ over Russia, Bessent says

The Treasury secretary told his team to get to work on a full agreement after a public spat Feb. 28 between President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and Vice...

Trump to meet freed Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina at White House

Karelina, 33, landed back on American soil last month after the Trump administration secured her freedom in an April 10 prisoner swap. Karelina, 33, landed back on American soil...

Former Miami-Dade substitute teacher sentenced for human trafficking, lewd & lascivious battery

A former substitute teacher in Miami-Dade County was sentenced Monday to 25 years in state prison after police said he provided drugs to female students in exchange for sexual...

Trump promotes CBP whistleblowers who called out failure to collect criminal DNA at border

CBP agents Fred Wynn, Mike Taylor and Mark Jones revealed in February 2018 that DHS wasn't abiding by the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005. CBP agents Fred Wynn, Mike...

Trump admin set pay illegal migrants $1,000 to self-deport, DHS says it will save taxpayers a ton

The Trump administration has started paying illegal migrants to $1,000 each to “self-deport” from the US, and the Department of Homeland Security said it will save taxpayers up to...

More than 8 in 10 voters support keeping Trump’s 2017 tax cuts: poll

Just 5% of likely voters said they would like a tax increase to close the nearly $2 trillion federal budget deficit. Just 5% of likely voters said they would...