Several South Shore residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the pre-dawn raid in Chicago. read more
Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard. "I have yet to find a single military official who was in the audience today who thought that this was a good presentation," she told MSNBC on Tuesday afternoon. read more
Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query "does trump show signs of dementia" as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents.
Analysts were left shocked Wednesday after ADP released its latest jobs report that showed private employers had shed 32,000 jobs in September, a stark contrast to the expected gain of around 50,000 jobs. read more
Trump is considering a massive aid program for US farmers who are suffering under his idiotic trade war. read more
A statue that grabbed the attention of Washingtonians and tourists alike was back on full display on the National Mall Thursday, after being removed one week ago. read more
A Republican-appointed federal judge in Boston sharply ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration's policy targeting foreign students and faculty for pro-Palestinian activism violated the First Amendment's free speech protections. read more
Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year. The enhanced tax credits both increased the amount of financial assistance already eligible ACA Marketplace enrollees received as well as made middle-income enrollees with income above 400% of federal poverty guidelines eligible for premium tax credits. Since the introduction of the enhanced premium tax credits, enrollment in the Marketplace has more than doubled from about 11m to over 24m people, the vast majority of whom receive an enhanced premium tax credit. If enhanced tax credits expire, many Marketplace enrollees will continue to qualify for a smaller tax credit, while others will lose eligibility altogether and be hit by a "double whammy" of losing their entire tax credit and being on the hook for rising premiums. For many Americans, their premiums will double. read more
Tom Nichols: Trump put on a disturbing show for America's generals and admirals. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to consider whether to lift the long-standing prohibition on a merger between any of the largest four broadcast networks and to consider relaxing other media ownership rules.
President Donald Trump veered off into an extended riff about walking down stairs during a scattershot speech to military brass in Quantico, Virginia. read more
A photographer's snapshot of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the United Nations General Assembly last week revealed a private message that captured the Trump administration's deepening concern over collapsing U.S. soybean exports to China"a crisis now entangled with a controversial economic bailout of Argentina. "Finally " just a heads up, I'm getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate," read the message, which appeared to be sent from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. "We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine's [sic] are removing their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us." read more
As part of the deal, Trump said, Pfizer will sell some of its drugs on a new "direct to consumer" website called "TrumpRx." read more
ICEBlock was removed from Apple's App Store along with similar apps: "Based on information we've received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock, we have removed it and similar apps from the App Store." read more
Trump on Tuesday told a gathering of military leaders they should use American cities as "training grounds" and described a federal crackdown on crime in major cities as "a war from within." read more
Newsweek: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a rare meeting of the most senior military leadership in the U.S. that they must "prepare for war." read more
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