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The Republican senator condemned college protesters opposed to Israel's war in Gaza on Wednesday and brazenly argued "all of them" belong behind bars.

Ed Yardeni, whom CNBC calls "one of the biggest bulls on Wall Street," claimed President Donald Trump’s extensive tariffs are raising the risk of "stagflation."Stagflation occurs when there's stagnant economic growth combined with high inflation and high unemployment. A full-blown recession happens when the economy shrinks, as evidenced by two successive quarters of declining gross domestic product. CNBC reported that Yardeni sent a note to clients Thursday, saying, “It has dawned on Wall Street (and us!) that President Trump’s tariffs aren’t negotiating chips to help the U.S. lower tariffs around the world, promoting free trade. They’re trade barriers, triggering other countries to respond in kind, and they jeopardize U.S. inflation and economic growth."ALSO READ: The new guy in charge of USAID doesn't believe in foreign aidTrump's on-again, off-again tariffs on Mexico, Canada, China, and the EU have caused major market instability, and Yardeni Research has now lowered its best-case S&P 500 target for 2025 by almost 9%," CNBC reported. “We can’t ignore the potential stagflationary impact of the policies that Trump 2.0 is currently implementing haphazardly,” Yardeni said. “In response to the now heightened risk of stagflation, we are lowering our S&P 500 valuation expectations and year-end price targets. If tariffs stick, the one-time price increase and uncertainty regarding its impact on inflation expectations are likely to be enough to keep the FOMC on pause."The Federal Open Market Committee is the policy-setting arm of the U.S. Federal Reserve.Just Thursday, Trump issued a fresh threat to impose 200% tariffs on all alcoholic products coming from the European Union in retaliation for its "nasty 50% tariff on whisky."Trump wrote on Truth Social, "If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S."Read the CNBC article here.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is celebrating his many rollbacks to the organization, bragging about shooting a “dagger through the heart of climate change religion” and claiming that he’s “ushering in America’s Golden Age.”The EPA is about to experience its largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. Zeldin is rolling back 31 environmental regulations, one of which takes aim at a rule restricting air pollution from fossil fuel-powered plants. Another measure will move away from electric vehicles, allowing a larger embrace of oil-powered vehicles and their fuel suppliers.“By reconsidering rules that throttled oil and gas production and unfairly targeted coal-fired power plants, we are ensuring that American energy remains clean, affordable, and reliable,” he wrote in his Wall Street Journal op-ed. Zeldin even has the Supreme Court on his side after last week’s ruling in which the court sided with San Francisco in a monumental sewage case, making it harder for the EPA to regulate sewage discharge.And to make regulating even more of a challenge, Zeldin slashed his workforce by more than 150 people last week. As he wrote in his op-ed, Zeldin is working toward ending the Green New Deal—or as he put it, the “Green New Scam.”But the Green New Deal is something that even Zeldin himself cannot kill, since it’s a platform—not legislation. Despite these extreme rollbacks, Zeldin said that this is not a “retreat from environmental protection.”“We are protecting the environment not by shutting down energy production but by making it cleaner and more efficient,” he wrote. The op-ed offers a change of tone from what he said during his Senate confirmation hearing in January. Responding to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Zeldin said that he believes “climate change is real” and that “we must with urgency be addressing these issues.”In February, leading climate change expert Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University released a study claiming that “global warming has accelerated.”Surely it will only get worse as Zeldin takes his dagger to the EPA.Campaign Action

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said he thought he had a $12.5 million yearly commitment from UPMC a year ago, but the health care giant denies that it ever made such an offer.

On Monday night, a longtime employee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sat down with his wife at their kitchen table in a D.C. suburb and decided to leave the job he loves. Three days earlier, he was one of thousands of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who received [...]

"You're not gonna stop us, New York State," Homan said at the state Capitol in Albany. "You gotta change the sanctuary status. If you don't, get out of the way."

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack Elon Musk's desire for a government shutdown that could become permanent. Plus: An update on measles misinformation in the US.

Sen. John Fetterman's political statements and his blunt nature haven't necessarily translated to his voting record, which show he tends to vote with his party on key issues.

The former head of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement's removal efforts in Boston has been promoted to lead the agency's national efforts, according to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristy Noem.

The problem won’t be solved until Congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court finally require all states, not just Illinois, to fairly draw legislative boundaries.

Donald Trump is yanking security clearances for law firms who have committed the terrible crime of working with people Donald Trump doesn’t like. That won’t just punish those firms—it will also likely make it harder for some of the federal employees illegally fired by Trump to get lawyers. Federal employees who work with sensitive information or whose employment is covert can’t hire just any lawyer. Here’s how Mark Zaid, who represented the intelligence officer who blew the whistle on Trump’s “perfect call” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, explained it.For a covert CIA officer, even the fact they work for the CIA is secret, and it would be a crime for them to tell someone who doesn’t have proper clearance. If that CIA officer needs an attorney, the attorney needs a security clearance too.This isn’t just an issue for spies. Any federal employee who works with classified material can encounter this if an employment dispute requires discussing that material. Without an attorney who has clearance, that person is out of luck. Zaid was among the first attorneys to be stripped of their security clearances for the crime of irritating Trump. Well ... maybe. In early February, Trump told the New York Post he was revoking clearances for a laundry list of people, including Zaid. However, there’s been no official notification about it, even a month later. On Feb. 25, Trump issued an order suspending clearances for anyone at Covington & Burling who provided services to former special counsel Jack Smith. The man charged with investigating Trump’s election interference and mishandling of classified documents received about $140,000 in pro bono assistance from the prominent Washington law firm in preparation for Trump’s inevitable legal attacks on him. There’s no allegation the firm did anything improper regarding clearances or classified information. Their only offense was working with Smith. A new order dropped on Thursday suspending clearances for everyone at another law firm, Perkins Coie. Trump has been mad at that firm since 2016 for its role in hiring the firm that commissioned the Steele dossier, an opposition research report that was largely debunked. The order also limits the firm’s access to federal buildings and, for good measure, accuses the firm of discrimination in hiring because it uses diversity, equity, and inclusion practices—the GOP bogeyman known as DEI. As of 2019, the last year for which data is available, 1.25 million federal employees, contractors, and others held top-secret clearances. The mass firings driven by Trump’s co-President Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency have been so chaotic that people are not even receiving the customary security exit briefings. Still, the administration is nonetheless moving forward with plans to ax probationary CIA employees after purging the FBI weeks ago. Thanks to Trump, those fired people will face a dwindling pool of lawyers allowed to represent them. Making sure federal employees can’t fight backIn the span of just a few days in February, Trump removed Susan Grundmann, chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, which oversees federal-sector labor issues; Cathy Harris, head of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which shields federal employees from partisan actions and hears appeals over firings and demotions; and Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, which protects federal whistleblowers. Each is an independent federal agency, where people are appointed to fixed terms rather than serving at the president's pleasure like Cabinet heads do. They can’t be removed except for the reasons specified by Congress in statute, like neglect of duty or malfeasance. Trump removed them anyway, in part because he’s deliberately trying to tee up a Supreme Court case where the conservative justices would agree that he has absolute authority over the entire executive branch, but also because he’s cutting off avenues of recourse for fired federal employees. Grundmann sued over her removal, but the court has not yet ruled on her motion to be restored to her position. Harris just prevailed at the lower court, with the judge ruling that Trump had no authority to remove her, but the administration has already appealed. Dellinger won at the lower court, but after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Trump’s request that Dellinger remain removed while litigation continues, Dellinger dropped his challenge to his firing. Federal employees can’t meaningfully rely on the functionality or independence of these agencies now, which is the whole point. On any given day, there may or may not be someone heading an agency, depending on where litigation stands, which is a surefire way to grind work to an internal halt. Worse, if Trump prevails in his attempt to stuff these agencies with partisan ghouls, none will care about their duties to federal employees. Ed Martin is unclear on the First AmendmentWhen interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin isn’t protecting a MAGA congressman from being arrested or threatening Democrats on behalf of Elon Musk, he’s busy showing how little he understands the Constitution. On Thursday, Martin sent a letter to William Treanor, dean of Georgetown University’s law school, complaining that the school “continues to teach and promote DEI” and that doing so is “unacceptable” (there’s that DEI bogeyman again!). Martin said he has opened an inquiry and that his office will not hire anyone from a school that continues to teach DEI. It’s unclear where Martin got the idea that a federal prosecutor has any role here. What crime, exactly, would Martin charge Georgetown with? It’s also unclear whether Martin understands the First Amendment, which solidly prohibits the government from telling Georgetown, a private school, what to teach. Treanor, who (unlike Martin) is an actual constitutional scholar, sent a return letter patiently explaining basic legal concepts like academic freedom and private schools. Treanor also told Martin that since the First Amendment protects Georgetown’s right to determine its curriculum, refusing to hire students based on disdain for that curriculum is also unconstitutional. For good measure, Treanor highlighted that Georgetown’s commitment to open discourse stems from its status as a Catholic and Jesuit institution. This might seem unnecessary until you learn that Martin is an ostentatiously devout Catholic whose official bio highlights that he attended a Catholic college and worked for the St. Louis Archdiocese.If Martin were smarter, he’d be chastened—but he’s not, so he won’t. A shining new era of griftRepublicans are racing to create a world where Elon Musk doesn’t have to follow any pesky regulations. On Wednesday, the GOP-controlled Senate passed a resolution that would undo a Biden-era rule that gave the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau the authority to regulate online payment platforms. The House also needs to pass the resolution, but since that chamber is also under GOP control, the rule's demise seems likely.The CFPB enforces consumer financial laws, protecting people from fraud and unfair practices. It’s remarkably good at this, having obtained close to $20 billion in relief for consumers since its founding in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The agency has always had the authority to oversee traditional financial institutions like banks, but only under Biden did it expand to digital payment platforms such as Zelle and CashApp. This poses a problem for Musk, who wants to turn X into a digital payment platform and already has an agreement with Visa. Musk isn’t a fan of regulation, and this move would allow him to run a financial institution without any annoying oversight. There’s no telling whether there’s a huge appetite for an unregulated digital payment app on a site already overrun by Nazis and crypto bots, but we’re about to find out. Campaign Action

Ed Martin, the acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia, is a former advocate for January 6 attackers who has demoted, fired, or investigated scores of prosecutors in his office who worked on cases against rioters who assaulted Capitol and DC police that day. But Martin on Friday announced a new initiative he dubbed [...]

Teresa Borrenpohl of Post Falls was dragged out of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee’s Legislative Town Hall on Saturday after making several remarks against various legislators and initiatives.

While officials say they cannot elaborate on border operations, federal data show arrests by the Spokane Border Patrol Sector have ramped up under the second Trump Administration.

Dennis Brandl Jr., the 83-year-old man alleged to have shot a Houston-area school employee in early February, was released from jail before his death Saturday night at a Houston hospital. The Harris County medical examiner determined Brandl died from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

President Donald Trump vowed more “swift and unrelenting action” reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before Congress as Democratic lawmakers showed their dissent. The fallout from Trump's trade war continues, with financial markets now...

Before becoming the second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino used his popular podcast to spread conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack. Here's what else he said.

On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Steve Witkoff and Gov. Kathy Hochul join Margaret Brennan.

The following is the transcript of an interview with GOP Sen. John Curtis of Utah that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Feb. 23, 2025.

President Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election result, has been shattering norms upon returning to the Oval Office. Since the nation's founding, the guardrails that have kept presidents in check have been in the courts and Congress. But will they hold?

WASHINGTON — On her first day as President Donald Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi promised to remove politics from criminal prosecutions and to restore the “integrity and credibility” of the Justice Department.

By Gene Nichol It is dangerous business to steal an election. Jefferson Griffin has demonstrated a quiet desperation to get his case to the North Carolina Supreme Court. He’s violated every procedural norm to get there. Everybody in the country knows why. The North Carolina high court has repeatedly proven itself to be the most [...]The post Gene Nichol: The wages of destruction appeared first on Salisbury Post.

The bill is modeled on legislation supported by Amazon and Microsoft and is the dominant data privacy model in the country.

Ed Martin is poised to be the new top prosecutor in D.C. — a MAGA true believer who dismissed Jan. 6 investigators and says he will be tougher on violent criminals in the city.Why it matters: The U.S. Attorney for D.C. has a big portfolio: white collar and national security investigations, for example, but also nearly all street-level crime in the District.State of play: President Trump nominated Martin for the permanent position on Monday, pending Senate approval.Denise Cheung, Martin's top deputy who led the criminal division, abruptly quit Tuesday after refusing a Trump administration request to "order a bank to freeze accounts of an unnamed contractor," the NY Times reported.Cheung says in a letter obtained by NYT that Martin had asked her to step down following the standoff, which involved EPA grants.Martin — a firebreathing podcaster who posts Psalm passages on his X account — is garnering national controversy. And praise from Trump, who said he is "fighting tirelessly" to "make our Nation's Capital Safe and Beautiful Again."Since taking office, he has shown his loyalty to Trump and Elon Musk with posts on X.Martin posted letters with DOJ letterhead threatening investigations into individuals that Musk claims are stymieing his DOGE efforts.Locally, when he became interim appointee shortly after Trump began his second term, Martin first met with Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Pamela Smith, telling WJLA they discussed "how do we get the streets safer."He says the office has a backlog of "350 murder cases." And he wants Congress to fill vacant judge seats so he can move cases faster."The thugs with guns have to be stopped," he told WJLA. (Martin's office and his personal X account did not respond to Axios' messages requesting an interview.)After dismissing lawyers who worked on Jan. 6 riot cases, Martin told his staff on Friday he plans to hire 20 new prosecutors, the NY Times reported.Context: Martin moved to affluent Great Falls, Virginia, in 2018 with his wife and four children, per the Washington Post. He led an unsuccessful campaign for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.Before then, he was in Missouri, where he chaired the state GOP and made two unsuccessful bids for Congress — losing once and withdrawing before election another time.Martin hails from a conservative wing of the party tied to Phyllis Schlafly, an activist who led a campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment.In 2016, he co-authored with Schlafly "The Conservative Case for Trump," which published the day after she died, and a few months before Trump won the presidential election.

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Denise Cheung was a longtime Justice Department official who led the office’s criminal division.

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The Trump administration, which has been moving like a juggernaut across the political landscape, has hit a land mine. The decision by Trump’s Justice Department to halt the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has caused uproar. Adams had been due to stand trial in April on charges of bribery, wire fraud [...]

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President Donald Trump insulted Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and questioned his childhood battle with polio after the senator opposed anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation Thursday to be the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. When asked by a reporter whether McConnell’s past bout with polio influenced his “no” vote, Trump responded, “I have no idea if he had polio. All I can tell you about him is that he shouldn’t have been leader.”The president added, “[McConnell’s] not voting against Bobby, he’s voting against me.” He later called McConnell “a very bitter guy.”McConnell has voted against several of Trump’s recent Cabinet picks, including Tulsi Gabbard (for director of national intelligence), Pete Hegseth (for secretary of defense), and Kennedy. In the cases of Gabbard and Kennedy, McConnell was the only Republican to buck the president. With Hegseth’s vote, however, two other Republican senators—Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—joined him in voting against Trump’s nominee.In addition to calling Trump a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” and “stupid” in a recent biography, McConnell has blasted Trump’s sweeping use of tariffs. He said they were “bad policy” and would raise prices.Trump’s “aggressive proposals leave big, lingering concerns for American industry and workers,” McConnell wrote in a Wednesday op-ed for Louisville’s Courier-Journal.Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of KentuckyMcConnell wasn’t always this big of a thorn in Trump’s side, though. At the beginning of Trump’s first term, the senator helped Trump confirm hundreds of judges and fill three Supreme Court vacancies—moves that will shape the judiciary for a generation. (Notably, in 2016, McConnell helped block Merrick Garland, whom then-President Barack Obama nominated to the Supreme Court, from getting a hearing.) McConnell was also instrumental in Trump’s 2017 effort to pass sweeping tax cuts for the wealthy.Despite minor disagreements, the Republicans’ relationship didn’t turn icy until the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. McConnell called Trump “practically and morally responsible” for the insurrection, but ultimately, he did not vote to convict the president. The two also squabbled over the party’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act during Trump’s first administration. (More recently, McConnell said the repeal effort against the law seems “largely over.”) And they have traded a fair share of nasty personal attacks. Despite this, McConnell still endorsed Trump’s reelection bid. McConnell, who will turn 83 this month, is up for reelection in 2026, but it’s unclear whether he’ll run again. He’s suffered a series of falls as of late, including two last week. A spokesperson for the senator suggested that “the lingering effects of polio in his left leg” contributed to it, but said the fall would not disrupt McConnell’s “regular schedule of work.”It makes sense, then, that McConnell would vote against Kennedy, an alleged animal abuser with a history of attacking vaccination and promoting bogus conspiracy theories. Shortly after his confirmation, Kennedy appeared on Fox News and confirmed there were plans to cut the number of HHS employees. Notably, Kennedy said those who have been “involved in good science” (whatever that means!) have “nothing to worry about.”Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine nut now in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services“If you care about public health, you’ve got nothing to worry about. If you’re in there working for the pharmaceutical industry, then I should say you should move out and work for the pharmaceutical industry,” he said.On Thursday, Trump questioned McConnell’s mental acuity and said “he’s not equipped” to lead the GOP. This is the Trump way: viciously attack anyone who doesn’t do your bidding, regardless of how they’ve helped you in the past. It’s also a classic authoritarian tactic, and given that Trump is a petty narcissist, it’s not shocking that he’s going after McConnell.That said, McConnell doesn’t deserve a pat on the back for voting against just a handful of Trump’s awful nominees. The senator’s pushback is not just politically convenient—he’s no longer Senate majority leader—but it also comes far too late in the game. Maybe McConnell feels guilty for elevating Trump and is voting against the Cabinet picks as a way to make up for his past transgressions. Either way, given how much he helped Trump to get to where he is now, he’s just as complicit in the downfall of American democracy. McConnell doesn’t get a pass. Campaign Action

The stunning development comes amid widespread speculation as to whether she would follow through on the directive and after Trump placed her in the top job role in an acting capacity.

Economists have broadly predicted Trump’s tariffs will raise prices and harm the economy.

Oversight laws about foreign influence were already limited. Now the Trump administration is shredding them.The post How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar? appeared first on The Intercept.

An 84-year-old is accused of fatally beating an 89-year-old at the Charlottesville Health and Rehabilitation Center.

President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the war-torn territory, contradicting other officials in his administration who’ve sought to argue Trump was only calling for the...

Economists have broadly predicted Trump’s tariffs will raise prices and harm the economy.

RFK Jr. passed a key Senate committee vote after a holdout GOP lawmaker, Sen. Bill Cassidy, backed him.

President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the war-torn territory, contradicting other officials in his administration who’ve sought to argue Trump was only calling for the...

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The emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump created an extraordinary dynamic.

President Donald Trump is moving at breakneck speed to disrupt and reshape the federal government, challenging oversight powers reserved for lawmakers.

Economists have broadly predicted Trump’s tariffs will raise prices and harm the economy.