Category: US

Commerce Department Quietly Strips Anti-Interference Rule From Census Bureau Days After Voting Report Controversy The Commerce Department removed language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy in an unannounced revision dated August 19, according to reporting published Monday. The change came one day after the Census Bureau, which falls under Commerce, issued an unusual…

Trump Adds Nine Drugmakers to Medicaid Price Deal, Now Covering 89% of the Market President Trump announced Monday that nine more pharmaceutical manufacturers — including Alcon, Astellas Pharma, BeOne Medicines, BridgeBio, CSL, Kyowa Kirin, Sun Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and UCB — have agreed to “most-favored-nation” pricing deals tying their U.S. Medicaid prices to the lower…

Trump Demands FCC “Punish” NBC’s Kristen Welker Over Endorsement Comment President Trump said on Truth Social that NBC’s Kristen Welker should be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” after she said during a local-affiliate interview that his primary endorsements had produced “mixed results.” Trump cited his own claimed endorsement success rates — 100%…

Supreme Court Lets Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom Rise While Chief Justice Warns It’s “Likely Unlawful” The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday to let President Trump continue construction of a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom, blocking lower court orders that had put the aboveground portion of the project on hold. The five-justice majority, which included all…

Iran Hits U.S. Bases in Jordan, Trump Vows to “Hit Them Hard” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched missiles and drones early Monday at two U.S. bases in Jordan — King Hussein and Al Azraq — in an operation Tehran called “Punishment of the Aggressor.” Jordan’s military said it intercepted at least eight missiles, and…

California Rushes Muslim Holidays Bill to Newsom’s Desk — Critics Call It a Double Standard California’s state legislature moved Assembly Bill 2017 toward final passage as its session neared its Monday, August 31 deadline, positioning the measure to reach Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. The bill, introduced by Democratic Assemblymember Matt Haney of San Francisco and…

Trump Tells Canada It “Wants the Benefits of Being a State” as Trade War Deepens President Trump escalated his trade dispute with Canada in a series of Truth Social posts early Sunday, August 30, writing that “Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!” and claiming Canada had for years charged American…

Michigan Senate Nominee Apologizes for Synagogue Attack Comments — GOP Rival Says Too Late Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s open Senate seat, apologized to the state’s Jewish Democratic Caucus on Sunday, August 30, for comments he made in March after an attack on Temple Israel synagogue in a Detroit suburb. In that attack,…

Trump Wants the FCC to “Punish” the NBC Anchor Who Called His Endorsements “Mixed” President Trump posted on Truth Social early Sunday morning, August 30, calling on FCC Chair Brendan Carr to take up the “very important matter of Fake Polls and Commentary,” writing “THE FAKE POLLS USED BY OUR CROOKED MEDIA ARE OUT OF…

Trump and Iran Trade Fire Near Hormuz — Congress Was Never Asked The United States struck Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island on Sunday, August 30, after intelligence indicated forces linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were preparing to deploy sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz. It was the first publicly acknowledged U.S.…