Category: National

Democrats are raising worries about Trump interfering in the midterms.

  in PBS  Dec 30, 2025 12:03 PM EST By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press   If history is a guide, Republicans stand a good chance of losing control of the House of Representatives in 2026. They have just a slim majority in the chamber, and the incumbent party usually gives up seats in midterm elections. …

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White House Ramps Up War On Journalists By Naming ‘Media Offender Of The Week’

  In Forbes  https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2025/11/29/white-house-ramps-up-war-on-journalists-by-naming-media-offender-of-the-week/ ByMark Joyella, Senior Contributor. Mark Joyella is a former broadcast journalist who covers media. Nov 29, 2025, 06:08pm EST The Trump Administration is intensifying its war on the “fake news media” by launching a “Media Offender of the Week” page on the official White House website. The page, which names journalists …

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Nov 4 Election Day News

CNN: 5 things to know for Nov. 4: Election Day 2025, Aviation safety, Food stamps, Michigan FBI raid, Dick Cheney Hello readers — welcome to a special Election Day edition of 5 Things. Voters will head to the polls today in critical races across the country, from New York to California. It’s the first major electoral …

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Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan is on its way to voters. What you need to know

In Cal Matters by Maya C. Miller and Jeanne Kuang  August 21, 2025 In summary Many California Democrats are reluctant to give up the state’s independently drawn congressional districts, but they say it’s a necessary step to counter gerrymanders in Republican states. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to counter President Donald Trump’s election gerrymander in Texas with his own …

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JD Vance to meet with top Trump officials to plot Epstein strategy – report Gathering reportedly to include Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Susan Wiles to discuss strategy for dealing with scandal in the Guardian  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/jeffrey-epstein-jd-vance-trump-meeting Anna Betts in New York Wed 6 Aug 2025 13.20 EDT JD Vance, the US vice-president, will reportedly host …

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‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/ice-trump-administration-immigration-deportations?CMP=share_btn_url Ben Makuch Shrouded in secrecy, the US law enforcement agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda Tue 24 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT Across the US, group chats and community threads have started spiking with warnings. Not just the typical alerts about traffic or out of service subway stations, …

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Trump’s 100 Days Top 10 Failures!

1. Supreme Court defiance 2. Environmental degradation 3. Those ‘beautiful’ tariffs 4. The war on DEI 5. Illegal deportations 6. Shaming Zelensky 7. Claiming transgender people do not exist 8. Appointing a Keystone-Cops cabinet 9. Gutting funds for medical research 10. Remaking the world map Source- READ MORE AT https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article305246606.html

5 things to know about tariffs and how they work

FROM PBS NEWS AT https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/5-things-to-know-about-tariffs-and-how-they-work Economy Updated on Apr 3, 2025 6:51 PM EDT — Published on Mar 4, 2025 4:49 PM EDT By — Paul Wiseman, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tariffs are in the news at the moment. Here’s what they are and what you need to know about them. Tariffs are a …

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Fact Checking Trump’s Address to Joint Congress- Mar. 4, 2025

  By PolitiFact Staff March 5, 2025 President Donald Trump recapped six weeks of aggressive efforts to cut the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and reorient foreign policy in his first address to a joint session of Congress. The March 4 speech was long by historical standards — about an hour and 40 minutes — and …

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The Women’s March Rebranded and Reorganized. Now They’re Ready for 2025

  from Time magazine 5 minute read One day after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump protestors fill the streets during the Women’s March on January 21, 2017 held in the area surrounding the Washington Mall.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis —Getty Images By Rebecca Schneid December 18, 2024 3:13 PM EST When activist and organizer …

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