Month: July 2025
July 30, 2025
Politics
Taxpayers on hook for $163 billion worth of project overruns, including controversial Fed renovations, Senate report shows
Taxpayers are stuck with a $162.9 billion tab for cost overruns in over a dozen infrastructure projects, controversial renovations at the Federal Reserve, Air Force One upgrades, and other...
July 30, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Insider trading is Mike Johnson’s next Epstein
Speaker Mike Johnson’s September to-do list is getting tougher by the day. As POLITICO scooped Tuesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) is planning to file a discharge petition to...
July 30, 2025
Congress
Bernie Moreno endorses Nate Morris in Kentucky Senate race to replace Mitch McConnell
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) is backing Nate Morris in the race to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “If we are going to put America First again, we need...
July 30, 2025
Politics
Ted Cruz is latest to defend Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad ripped as ‘Nazi Propaganda’
"I’m sure that will poll well…." he added. "I’m sure that will poll well…." he added.
July 30, 2025
Politics
Trump tells Sen. Chuck Grassley to ‘step up,’ get rid of ‘ridiculous custom’ holding up judicial appointments
President Trump urged Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday to “step up” and end a “ridiculous custom” that allows senators to block judicial nominees for courts...
July 30, 2025
Politics
Senate confirms Trump lawyer Emil Bove for federal appeals court judge spot — pushing past whistleblower claims
A former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Bove was on Trump’s legal team during his New York hush money trial and defended Trump in the...
July 30, 2025
Congress
Trump tells Chuck Grassley to have ‘courage’ in moving judicial noms without Dems
President Donald Trump is seeking to pressure Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley to ram through more judicial nominees without buy-in from home-state Democratic senators. “Chuck Grassley, who I got...
July 30, 2025
Congress
Senate confirms Emil Bove to Third Circuit, as Dems fail to thwart Trump pick
Two Republicans voted against Bove, but it wasn't enough to tank his nomination.
July 30, 2025
Politics
New York Times stunningly rolls back claims about viral photo of starving Gaza boy
“This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation.” “This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation.”
July 29, 2025
Politics
Jasmine Crockett blasts AOC, Bernie Sanders for self-serving ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour: ‘Oh, it’s about them’
The rallies “kind of makes people be like, Oh, it’s about them, right? Instead of the team,” Crockett said. The rallies “kind of makes people be like, Oh, it’s...