Tillis renews calls for Hegseth's ouster  —  Sen. Thom Tillis renewed his call for President Donald Trump to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, following the resignation earlier this week of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.  “I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men …

Good Riddance, Seth Moulton: You Got What You Deserved  —  The biggest reason that Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election is probably the post-Covid-19 inflation and anti-incumbent sentiment that resulted in parties in power across the world being defeated.  It didn't help that she refused …

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials' Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement  —  In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.

Republicans aren't exactly flocking to Trump's midterm convention  —  President Donald Trump has a vision for next week's GOP convention in Dallas: a televised spectacle putting Republican candidates in front of midterm voters and top party donors just two months before the Election Day — with Trump himself headlining the show.

Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states  —  Ahead of the midterm elections, the president isn't even being subtle about his scandalous politicization of disaster aid.  —  Donald Trump's politicization of federal disaster relief funds has become …

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread  —  Substantial majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents agree  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. are at their highest level in 20 years, with 89% of U.S. adults saying it is widespread.

The Court's Ballroom Decision Is a Sign of Deeper Problems  —  The conservative justices have separation of powers exactly backwards.  —  In deciding to allow President Trump to proceed with constructing a new ballroom, which Congress has not authorized, at the White House, which Trump does not own …

Rogue House Democrats face growing push for “consequences”  —  Two centrist House Democrats who voted to help Republicans get a procedural motion across the finish line are now facing down possible punishment from party leaders who say they were blindsided by the move.

What JD Vance's Eruption of Rage Over Usha and El-Sayed Really Reveals  —  JD Vance is pretending to be very, very angry at Abdul El-Sayed for drawing his wife, Usha Vance, into our political debates.  “Abdul, keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth,” Vance seethed while campaigning …

DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites  —  Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November …

US Mint officially launches $1 coin featuring Trump  —  The United States Mint released 250,000 $1 coins Wednesday featuring President Trump's likeness to commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary.  —  The design of the coin shows a simple portrait of the president …

Can Susan Collins Survive the Craziest Race in the Country? … Yet nowhere has been as idyllic as Perry's Lobster Shack.  —  Set on a harbor, where — in local parlance — Midcoast meets Downeast, the view from Perry's over the water is of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park.

Trump floats renaming Strait of Hormuz the ‘Trump Strait’ … President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated renaming the Strait of Hormuz — the central point of contention in the ongoing war against Iran that the U.S. and Israel started — after himself.  —  The proposal via a Truth Social post came less …

CNN: Is Capitalism Tied to White Supremacy?  —  Yesterday, CNN unearthed some comments James Talarico, the Democrat running for Senate in Texas, made about capitalism back in 2020.  Ed covered Talarico's comments and the story about them by CNN's Andrew Kaczynski.

The Air Marshals Keeping Watch On Eric Swalwell  —  On August 8, former Representative Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, D.C. He didn't know it, but federal agents were watching him throughout the nine-hour trip.

Trump's Speed on the White House Ballroom Threatens to Outpace the Courts  —  In his breakneck construction of a grand ballroom and in many other initiatives, critics say, the president has tried to outrun judicial review.  —  The courts cannot keep up with President Trump.

Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”  —  He is the richest man on earth.  An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he may also be the most dangerous.  —  Late one August afternoon in a Manhattan editing suite …

Dutch central bank moves gold bars out of New York over ‘geopolitical unrest’  —  DNB prefers London over the US city, pointing to better ‘tradeability’ of bullion  —  The Dutch central bank has shifted more than 78 tonnes of gold from New York to London in a politically sensitive move, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”.

The Hits Keep Coming  —  How much chaos can the economy take?  —  Here's the good news: The U.S. economy has proved remarkably resilient since the chaos monkeys, aka Donald Trump and company, took over the zoo.  —  There has been shock after shock: A trade war against everyone …

Birth Tourism Mastermind Pleads The Fifth, Dismissed From Congressional Hearing … The doctor behind a Miami company that markets services to foreign nationals seeking to give birth in the United States was subpoenaed to testify before Congress Tuesday.  He invoked the Fifth Amendment 11 times …

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”  —  Top military officers from a secretive command watched a speedboat cut through the waters of the Caribbean Sea, early last September.  A plane above provided live video of the vessel and the 11 men on board.

Hospitals say coming Trump administration rules are worse than GOP's Medicaid cuts  —  Hospitals thought losing hundreds of billions in Medicaid funding through GOP-led cuts last year was bad.  But coming regulations from the Trump administration could slash their funding even deeper than Congress did.

Kennedy Center Begins Removing Outdoor ‘Blue’ Sculpture  —  The towering artwork, added to the campus in 2019, was targeted for elimination after President Trump's takeover of the center.  —  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts began removing a major outdoor sculpture from the center's grounds on Wednesday.

‘Pitiful’: experts condemn initial US aid contribution for Nepal flood victims  —  Sum of $500,000 has been increased as death toll passes 1,000 but specialists decry Trump dismantling of USAID  —  Aid experts have denounced the US's “embarrassing” and “pitiful” initial response …

JD Vance talks end times, Antichrist and AI on faith podcast  —  The vice president, who's been an advocate of building data centers to support artificial intelligence, told podcaster Bryce Crawford that some uses of AI are “satanic.”  —  Vice President JD Vance warned about the dangers …