Tuesday

03-03-2026 Vol 19

Month: October 2025

Here are the corporations and donors footing the bill for Trump’s new White House ballroom

Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Meta are just some of the corporate sponsors for the $300 million grand hall in the gilded style of the president's Mar-a-Lago club. Amazon,...

Cornell student paper under fire for publishing professor’s op-ed with ‘highly offensive’ Palestinian artwork clad with nazi symbolism

Cornell's student newspaper ignited a firestorm this month by publishing a professor's vile artwork depicting a bloodied Star of David with a Nazi "SS" symbol scrawled on the back...

Obamacare ‘auto-enrollees’ are key target as Republicans formulate tax-credit extension plan

As Republicans formulate a plan to potentially extend key health insurance subsidies that are at the center of the government shutdown fight, House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie...

China, India curb Russian oil purchases after Trump sanctions Rosneft, Lukoil

The Asian nations are the world's most prolific purchasers of Russian oil — together accounting for a whopping 85% of Moscow's exports in August, according to the Center for...

Senate Dems block bill to pay federal workers during weeks-long shutdown

Senate Democrats blocked an effort Thursday to advance legislation that would pay some federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown. Senate Democrats blocked an effort Thursday to advance legislation...

Trump claims he was quietly pulling the strings with Israel under Biden: ‘They let me know everything’

President Trump crowed about the quiet influence over Israel he had during the Biden administration, strongly suggesting that the Jewish state would run key decisions by him. President Trump...

101 Republicans to defend community finance program from Trump cuts

More than 100 Republican lawmakers are expected to sign on to a letter pushing back on the Trump administration’s move to eliminate a popular, bipartisan community development finance fund...

Blaming Democrats, Johnson won’t bring House back to pay air traffic controllers

Speaker Mike Johnson said he won’t bring the House back to vote to pay air traffic controllers and other essential employees, saying the measure “would be spiked in the...

NY AG Letitia James heads to mortgage fraud hearing — as ‘fugitive’ grandniece hauled into court on alleged ‘punch’ threat

James' grandniece Nakia Thompson will appear before a judge after warning her kid's assistant principal that she would "punch" her in the "f--king face." James' grandniece Nakia Thompson will...

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao after Biden’s ‘war on cryptocurrency’

Zhao, one of the most powerful people in the crypto world, had to step down as chief of Binance when the company agreed to a $4.3 billion settlement with the US...