President Donald Trump said he issued a presidential proclamation reopening thousands of square miles of protected Atlantic Ocean waters off New England to commercial fishing, saying the move would reestablish fishing access and reduce what he called burdensome restrictions on fishermen. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social late Friday, writing that the move was … Read more
The Obama video should take a toll on the president’s political career – but of course it won’t Despite Donald Trump’s war on woke, he hasn’t (yet) made Black History Month illegal. In fact, on Tuesday the president issued a proclamation declaring February 2026 to be a celebration of Black history and called “upon public … Read more
Time has never seemed to stop the US skiing star. Entering Sunday’s Olympic downhill medal race, injuries haven’t either It was all going a little too easy for Lindsey Vonn. All the nervous apprehension, the paternalistic concern, the arch skepticism and hushed snickers that had rippled through the sports world when she announced her comeback … Read more
Ukrainian president says Trump administration has proposed to host next round of trilateral talks in US Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the US has given Ukraine and Russia yet another deadline to reach a peace settlement, and is now proposing the war should end by June. The Ukrainian president also told reporters that both sides had … Read more
After first dismissing uproar over depiction of Obamas as apes, White House then said it was erroneously posted by staffer White House officials sought to deflect blame from Donald Trump over a now-deleted video of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as monkeys, causing internal speculation about whether the president or his aide Natalie Harp was … Read more
Critics say law will disproportionately affect immigrant communities and those who speak limited English As of 6 February, people in Florida are no longer be able to take driver’s license examinations in any language other than English, the Florida department of highway safety and motor vehicles (DMV) said in a statement. Before the change, exams … Read more
Deregulation alone can’t make homes affordable when rising inequality, not zoning, is what is driving prices up Donald Trump has an interesting view of how housing plays in US politics. “I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes,” he said at a … Read more
The documents confirm what many have long assumed: elites live by their own special rules and codes of immunity The millions of Jeffrey Epstein files dumped last Friday by the US Department of Justice will provide journalists, conspiracy theorists and interested members of the public with months of reading. And what they will read is … Read more
Darin Smith, who was outside Capitol on January 6, decried as Senate mulls nomination as state’s top federal prosecutor A Republican former state lawmaker with no experience trying cases, a record of opposing LGBTQ+ rights, and who was outside the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, is awaiting Senate confirmation to become the top federal … Read more
The federal Small Business Administration suspended more than 111,000 California borrowers after uncovering $8.6 billion in suspected fraudulent activity linked to the COVID pandemic, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced Friday. “We have suspended nearly 112,000 borrowers tied to at least $9 billion in suspected fraud,” Loeffler said in a press release on Friday. “This staggering … Read more
