Month: August 2025
August 01, 2025
Congress
GOP’s summer town hall push gets heated
House Republicans are beginning to face rowdy town halls as they try to sell President Donald Trump's sweeping tax and spending law. Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin had a...
August 01, 2025
Politics
Trump’s special envoy visits aid site in Gaza amid concern over humanitarian crisis
President Trump's special envoy visited an aid operation site in southern Gaza Friday — amid global concerns of a spiraling hunger crisis that's plaguing the Palestinian enclave. President Trump's...
August 01, 2025
Politics
Stephen Colbert needles Kamala Harris after she fails to answer simple question
Harris balked at the simple question -- leaving even the lefty talk show host exasperated. Harris balked at the simple question -- leaving even the lefty talk show host...
August 01, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: It’s down to Trump, Schumer and Thune
The Senate’s summer exit is getting complicated as lawmakers brace for some weekend work. Tensions are running high over government funding negotiations. And Senate leaders have yet to seal...
August 01, 2025
Politics
House GOP broadens alleged Medicare fraud probe at Florida organ transplant center where patient ‘waited for death’
A troubling report from the center recently involved a patient who had been kicked off life support but was still "crying and biting on his breathing tube" as clinicians...
August 01, 2025
Congress
Sarah McBride has a blunt diagnosis for her party’s problems
The Delaware first-term lawmaker says Democrats must work on their image.
August 01, 2025
Politics
Kamala Harris complains ‘the system’ is ‘broken’ in Stephen Colbert interview after spending $1B on failed presidential campaign – suggests she won’t run in 2028
“There are some people who are born or grow up believing, ‘I'm going to be president. I want to be president’ – that wasn't me,” Harris told Colbert. “There...
August 01, 2025
Politics
Sen. Elizabeth Warren falls on Senate floor as Republicans offer bipartisan assistance during Israel vote
In a rare showing of bipartisanship, her Republican colleagues, including Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Susan Collins of Maine, rushed to help her up. In a rare showing...
August 01, 2025
Politics
Daily Beast apologizes and retracts article alleging a Melania Trump-Jeffrey Epstein link
The article was replaced with an editor’s note apologizing “for any confusion” after the first lady’s lawyers contacted the lefty outlet. The article was replaced with an editor’s note...
August 01, 2025
Congress
Trump goes after Susan Collins for her voting record
President Donald Trump is going after Republican Sen. Susan Collins despite hopes among some in the party that she will run again next year and help the GOP hold...