Year: 2025
May 30, 2025
Politics
Mayor Adams expands key safety program to Central Park to crack down on aggressive pedicabs, illegal hawking
Mayor Eric Adams is expanding his multi-agency safety initiative to Central Park in a push to address quality-of-life concerns in the city’s most iconic green space. Mayor Eric Adams...
May 30, 2025
Politics
Why Wall Street fat cats are sweating Trump’s war on ‘woke’ colleges
"Our fund may be doomed," said one hedge fund manager who works with university endowments. "Our fund may be doomed," said one hedge fund manager who works with university...
May 30, 2025
Health Care
Dr. Oz pushes back on criticism that GOP is cutting Medicaid
The CMS administrator says in a POLITICO podcast that most Americans agree with the White House push to enact work requirements. The CMS administrator says in a POLITICO podcast...
May 30, 2025
Politics
FBI probes strange texts asking for cash, pardon advice from person impersonating White House chief of staff Susie Wiles: report
The imposter has reportedly fired off text messages and placed phone calls to Republican lawmakers, governors and business executives in recent weeks pretending to be Wiles, the WSJ reported. The...
May 30, 2025
Politics
Trump, Xi are needed to make a deal as US, China trade talks ‘stalled,’ Treasury Sec. Bessent says
“I think that, given the magnitude of the talks, given the complexity – this is going to require both leaders to weigh in with each other,” Bessent said. “I...
May 30, 2025
Politics
Trump blasts ‘backroom hustlers’ in legal battle over tariffs, says US will lose ‘trillions’
“The ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade is so wrong, and so political! Hopefully, the Supreme Court will reverse this horrible, Country threatening decision, QUICKLY and DECISIVELY.”...
May 29, 2025
Politics
ICE shakes up agency with ‘leadership realignment’ in push for a ‘minimum’ of 3,000 migrant arrests per day
As part of the shake-up, Kenneth Genalo is out as the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division – the branch tasked with executing arrests and deportations. ...
May 29, 2025
Politics
Michigan Dem Elissa Slotkin says she was ‘going to punch someone’ over party’s ‘annoying’ economic gaslighting
Sen. Elissa Slotkin said Democrats made voters feel 'stupid' by claiming the economy was good under Biden. Sen. Elissa Slotkin said Democrats made voters feel 'stupid' by claiming the...
May 29, 2025
Politics
Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego admits ‘legitimate’ concerns about trans athletes in girl’s sports
"I think it’s legitimate that parents are worried about the safety of their daughters, and I think it’s legitimate for us to be worried also about fair competition," Gallego...
May 29, 2025
Politics
Biden admin failed to probe more than 7,300 reports of migrant child trafficking, startling HHS findings show
HHS still has 1,688 of possibly fraudulent sponsors receiving the kids, 7,346 human trafficking reports and another 46,311 other tips from grantees, staff and unaccompanied minors themselves to vet....