Government

A federal judge handed the Trump administration a significant legal win this week, declining to block a Medicaid funding deferral that could withhold more than $259 million from Minnesota as part of a widening crackdown on public-benefits fraud. Judge Eric Tostrud, a Trump appointee, found the state’s challenge premature and rejected its bid for a […]

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday morning that any country selling military weapons to Iran will face an immediate 50 percent tariff on all goods exported to the United States, a sweeping trade penalty with no exclusions or exemptions. The move came hours after a two-week ceasefire was reached with Tehran, as Breitbart reported, and alongside […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rolled out a sweeping “Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan” on Monday, promising to force every major city agency to view its work through a racial lens, and within hours, the Trump administration’s top civil rights enforcer flagged the proposal as potentially unlawful. Harmeet Dhillon, the Department of Justice’s Assistant […]

Oracle sent termination emails to thousands of workers across the globe on Tuesday, the same period during which the tech giant filed roughly 3,126 petitions to bring in foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. The juxtaposition has drawn sharp criticism from employees, industry watchers, and Americans who see a familiar corporate playbook: cut domestic […]

Germany has imposed a new regulation requiring all men between the ages of 17 and 45 to obtain permission from the military before staying outside the country for more than three months. The rule, part of broader changes to Germany’s military service laws adopted in January, marks a striking shift for a nation that has […]

The official Democratic Party account on X posted an Easter message Saturday featuring former President Barack Obama, and pointedly left out former President Joe Biden. The caption read, “Better times at the White House,” alongside an image of Obama standing beside a person in an Easter Bunny costume with the Washington Monument rising behind them. […]

A wave of new tax proposals is sweeping through deep-blue state capitals, targeting billionaires and high earners with levies so steep that some of the country’s wealthiest residents are already heading for the exits. California, New York, Washington state, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Connecticut are all advancing plans to squeeze more revenue from their top taxpayers, […]

A board member of the California High Speed Rail Authority admitted on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday that the state’s marquee rail project now carries an estimated cost of $126 billion, nearly four times the $33 billion price voters approved in 2008, and after close to two decades of work, not a single mile of track […]

President Trump signed an executive order aimed at overhauling college athletics, imposing hard limits on how long athletes can play and how often they can switch schools, and threatening to pull federal funding from universities that refuse to comply. The order, titled “Urgent National Action to Save College Sports,” represents the most direct presidential intervention […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, backed by every major Democratic campaign arm, sued President Donald Trump in federal court this week over his executive order overhauling how mail-in ballots are handled nationwide. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., asks a judge to block the order […]