Author: Press Room

An emboldened President Donald Trump is determined to flex his power over the GOP — at seemingly any cost. Republicans are coming to grips with a president who less than six months out from the midterms is focused on racking up a body count of lawmakers who have crossed him, asserting his control over his party and burnishing his legacy — putting the GOP legislative agenda and the survival of its majorities at risk. That reckoning is playing out on Capitol Hill this week as frustrated Republicans — including some lawmakers that Trump has essentially cast out of the party…

The potential encounter may happen at the APEC summit in China, Yury Ushakov has indicated Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump could meet on the sidelines of the APEC summit in China in November, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said, while stressing that no talks are currently planned. Putin, who has just concluded his official two-day visit to China, told Chinese President Xi Jinping that he plans to attend the APEC summit in Shenzhen on November 18-19. Trump, who also traveled to China last week, has reportedly signaled that he intends to take part as well. “Our president has…

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is introducing legislation Wednesday that would require an appropriate national security agency to determine if communications equipment or services tied to several fast-rising Chinese technology companies pose an unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons, with an affirmative finding — or failure to complete the review on time — resulting in placement on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) covered list. The FCC covered list is a published list of high-risk communications equipment and services, which was established under the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 in order to monitor their…

Elon Musk reacted to the uproar out of the United Kingdom involving Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old stabbing victim who died after being handcuffed by police over a racism allegation. Musk vowed to fund a lawsuit against the police, who he described as “disgusting excuses for law enforcement.” “Unconscionable,” Musk wrote in a Wednesday X post, adding, “I am happy to fund a wrongful death lawsuit against these disgusting excuses for law enforcement. They damn well better have been fired.” The SpaceX CEO was responding to an X post from Tommy Robinson, who reacted to a fellow UK-based X user who shared an…

Amazon founder and sole owner of the failing, far-left Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, said he is done subsidizing this failure. During a Wednesday appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin appeared eager to shame Bezos into subsidizing the Washington Post as-is rather than make the necessary changes to make it a profitable enterprise: Andrew Ross Sorkin: And there’s a lot of people out there who said, ‘Jeff’s super wealthy. He’s talked about this being a public trust. That’s something that he bought early on.’ How much do you care about that piece of it? Why, why lay people off? Why…

The religion that “formed the American consciousness” was “decidedly Christian, founded upon the principles and the divinity of Jesus Christ,” Vice President JD Vance said in a message for the “Rededicate 250” celebration of faith on the National Mall Sunday. During the event – described as a “National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving” to God – Vance offered a message to attendees, reminding them of the importance of the Christian foundation of America and the reality that Jesus is Lord. “In 1783 Washington also proclaimed that imitation of divine charity is necessary for the mutual affection of our citizenry and the…

Senators are signaling an appetite for pursuing legislation that would create federal standards for prediction markets that allow people to place cheap bets on sports — and just about anything else. “There’s interest from members on the panel to move forward and get something on the books,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday in an interview after she presided over a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on the topic. She added she planned to confer with the full Commerce Committee chair, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), about a path forward. The hearing, convened by the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, was billed…

The Italian prime minister has condemned as “unacceptable” the footage in which Itamar Ben-Gvir taunts activists Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has summoned Israel’s ambassador in Rome after condemning the treatment of pro-Palestinian activists detained during Israel’s interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.In a sharply worded statement on Wednesday, Meloni described footage showing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir taunting the detainees as “unacceptable.”“It is inadmissible that these demonstrators, including many Italian citizens, are subjected to this treatment that violates human dignity,” she wrote.While Meloni was among Israel’s strongest EU supporters after the October 2023 Hamas attacks, she has become…

Music executive Scott Borchetta, founder of Big Machine Records and the man who discovered Taylor Swift, was roundly booed by college graduates when he praised AI during a commencement address at Middle Tennessee State University. The New York Post reports that the record label CEO delivered his speech on May 10 at the Murphy Athletic Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he addressed graduates from the Scott Borchetta College of Media and Entertainment, the College of Education, and the College of Business. The college of media and entertainment bears his name in recognition of his contributions to the music industry. During…

On Wednesday, on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said lower-salaried workers should not be paying taxes. Co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin said, “One of the topics that I thought we should talk about and maybe even start with, yeah, is these days it feels almost impossible to pick up a newspaper without reading a headline about wealth in America. About the billionaire class, about wealth inequality and policy and and everything else. And it’s taking a uniquely critical turn, I think. And I’m so curious, before we even get into everything else, what you think about…