Author: Press Room
Some Democrats are concerned that after a decade of fighting President Donald Trump they are now held captive by anti-Trump resentment with little chance of escape. That’s the conclusion of a report published in the Hill Saturday, which pointed out that the long-awaited post-2024 election autopsy of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reinforced that point. Democrats leaned too heavily on negative partisanship, the nearly 200-page autopsy concluded, and focused too much on attacks on Donald J. Trump in messages to Americans who would ultimately cast the votes. That autopsy was not without its controversy as members of Congress and some…
President Donald Trump shared an AI video on Friday depicting him tossing Stephen Colbert into a dumpster on the set of his late night show. The clip showed the president approaching the host as he spoke to audience members in the studio for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the New York Post reported Saturday. Trump grabs a shocked Colbert by his suit jacket and throws him into a green dumpster as the crowd claps. The president then breaks into his signature dance to the song “YMCA” as the applause continues: Trump posted the video after the show’s final episode…
Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused the popular messaging app of falsely claiming that chats are inaccessible to third parties Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed what he described as a “landmark” lawsuit against Meta, accusing the company of “falsely claiming” that WhatsApp messages are encrypted and inaccessible to third parties, including its own employees.The messaging app, acquired by Meta in 2014, states on its website that “no one outside of the chat, not even WhatsApp, can read, listen to, or share what a user says.” On Thursday, the Texas Attorney General’s office announced that Paxton had initiated legal proceedings…
President Donald Trump’s oldest son married his fiancé on Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the couple is expected to celebrate over the weekend in the Bahamas. Donald Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson’s marriage was made official in West Palm Beach, NBC News reported Friday. His bride is from a prominent family in the area, and her father is banker and philanthropist Harry Loy Anderson Jr., the outlet said. TMZ reported the couple’s wedding ceremony will take place on a private island in the Bahamas, adding, “The ceremony was officiated by Brad McPherson… a longtime real estate attorney…
Authorities fear that a pressurized tank containing methyl methacrylate could rupture near residential neighborhoods in Orange County Up to 50,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate parts of Orange County, California, as authorities warned that a damaged chemical tank remains at risk of leaking or exploding.California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Orange County as emergency crews work to contain the crisis at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, about 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Los Angeles. The pressurized tank contains between 6,000 and 7,000 gallons (22,700–26,500 liters) of methyl methacrylate (MMA), a highly flammable…
The United States and Iran are close to agreeing on a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war, two regional officials and a diplomat said Saturday, as the United States has weighed a new round of attacks on the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that a “Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE” has been “largely negotiated” and is now subject to “finalization”: I am in the Oval Office at the White House where we just had a very good call with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,…
LONDON (AP) – Extra European Union border checks were suspended Saturday at the Port of Dover after throngs of passengers waited hours in the heat to board ferries to cross the English Channel, officials said. French border authorities stopped gathering additional data required of non-EU passengers to speed up processing times as people tried to get away for a three-day weekend. Travelers were stuck in long lines on what became the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures reaching 86 degrees (30 Celsius). “It’s taken me six hours to get on my ferry today,” driver Jon Lelliot told…
The Trump administration is expanding its push to revoke citizenship from some naturalized Americans accused of obtaining it through fraud or other ineligibility, with immigration attorneys being temporarily assigned to Justice Department offices as officials prioritize denaturalization cases. According to Axios, lawyers at USCIS, the federal agency that handles legal immigration services, are being temporarily transferred to U.S. attorney’s offices to work on denaturalization cases. Four former agency officials told the outlet about the transfers, with one source saying staffers were being “volun-told” to move offices and another describing the process as lawyers “being force volunteered.” A third source told…
An alleged terrorist trained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted first daughter Ivanka Trump for assassination to avenge the killing of Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani, the would-be assassin’s mentor, ordered by President Donald Trump. The New York Post reported that recently arrested Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, had made a “pledge” to kill the president’s oldest daughter and even had a blueprint of her Florida home. The Iraqi national allegedly aimed his revenge at Trump’s family in response to the elimination of Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad six years ago.…
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) argued against the filibuster and also said that “We are still a country that still has a Senate that massively overrepresents land at the expense of people. And I think it’s our collective job as Americans to push to make our government closer to the idea of a truly equal, representative democracy that our founders described but never totally created.” Casten said, “I’m not a senator. I would argue that when the overwhelming majority of the American people want something, we should pay attention to the majority of the…