August 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM EDT
Army general says Trump official questioned his patriotism for opposing controversial move

During the ongoing Posse Comitatus Act trial, Major General Scott Sherman -- a decorated officer with over three decades of military service -- testified that a civilian official from the Trump administration questioned his loyalty to the United States after he raised legal objections to deploying military personnel in a domestic law enforcement capacity in Los Angeles. A federal judge in San Francisco heard arguments on Monday to determine whether the Trump administration broke federal law by deploying National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles in response to June protests over immigration raids.

August 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM EDT
'Tangled mess': Nicolle Wallace exposes Trump's mounting 'contradictions' on Epstein

President Donald Trump is continuing to botch his official explanation for his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. On the Monday episode of her show "Deadline: White House," Wallace argued that the administration was digging itself into a deeper hole. While she noted that Trump initially claimed the Epstein story was "a big hoax" that was "perpetrated by the Democrats," they still managed to rope in "stupid Republicans" who bought into the controversy.

August 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM EDT
Supreme Court asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who became a national flashpoint a decade ago for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 2015 decision recognizing marriage equality. Attorneys for the ex-Rowan County Clerk have formally petitioned the nation's highest court to hear her case. Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion striking down Roe v. Wade in 2022 , wrote that the Court should reconsider certain cases based on the same precedent established in Roe.

August 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM EDT
'Good friend' of Trump economist calls colleague's jobs data 'strangest thing in the world'

President Donald Trump recently attempted to justify his firing of Erika McEntarfer -- the Senate-confirmed commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) -- by claiming that she was changing jobs numbers for political purposes. During a press conference last Thursday alongside Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore (a co-author of the far-right Project 2025 policy playbook) and several charts, Trump argued Moore's charts proved that McEntarfer was publishing fraudulent jobs numbers. The press conference was in response to July's jobs report, which showed meager job growth of just 73,000 new jobs (well below expectations) along with a downward revision of May and June job growth by hundreds of thousands of jobs.

August 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM EDT
Trump's $1.5 billion golf club sparks outrage as farmers warn 'it will take our land'

In Vietnam, villagers whose land is slated to be cleared for a $1.5 billion golf resort backed by the Trump family have reportedly been offered meager compensation by local authorities. According to a Reuters report published Sunday, sometimes the compensation offered by Vietnam officials is as little as $12 per square metre -- along with rice provisions.

August 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM EDT
'Guarding this awful man': Cotswolds hamlet residents fume as Vance security shuts down streets

Dean, a small hamlet in the Cotswolds -- a rural area of Southeastern England -- enacted tight security in response to a visit from a prominent U.S. politician: JD Vance. The American vice president planned to stay in Dean Manor, an 18th Century country house not far from a house that former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron owns in Oxfordshire. According to Will Humphries, a reporter for The Times in the U.K., Dean residents feel like they're on lockdown because of Vance's visit.

August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM EDT
'Power play': Critics blast Trump seizing DC police, declaring 'emergency' amid crime drop

Violent crime in Washington, D.C. fell by double digits in 2024 and again in the first half of 2025, yet on Monday, President Donald Trump officially declared a "public safety emergency" and said he is invoking federal "emergency" powers, federalizing the D.C. Metropolitan Police force, ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to seize control. "This is an emergency," Trump claimed to reporters at the White House.

August 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM EDT
'Takeover of our national psyche': How 'short-term thinking' only 'reinforces Trump's dominance'

During a recent rant, "Real Time" host Bill Maher argued that President Donald Trump's critics and opponents need to be more selective in their "outrage" and not "lose their s"-- every time he says something offensive. Trump's opponents, he stressed, need to pick their battles carefully -- and they play into Trump's hands, Maher told viewers, when they exhaust themselves by living in a state of constant outrage. The New York Times Ben Rhodes, in his August 11 column, also encourages Trump's opponents to look at the big picture. And he warns that "short-term thinking" is detrimental to the anti-Trump opposition."

August 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM EDT
Deranged Trump admin has replaced heart disease as America's biggest killer

Heart disease, step aside. There's a new number-one health hazard to Americans. That would be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

August 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM EDT
A red meat allergy from tick bites is spreading

Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain or even swelling that can escalate to the point of requiring emergency care. The culprit isn't food poisoning - it's the fallout from a tick bite you may have gotten months earlier and didn't even notice.

August 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM EDT
'I truly wish I had not': Trump voter regrets support after seeing high medication costs

While polls indicate that a majority of President Donald Trump's voters remain steadfast in their support, a notable portion is beginning to express regret over their 2024 vote. In this context, a Facebook post by a self-identified MAGA voter went viral Saturday. She shared that, due to Trump's tariffs, she and her partner can no longer afford their imported medications. She began her post by expressing her frustration with Trump's ongoing tariff war, which has increased the prices of imported goods in the U.S.

August 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM EDT
What Marjorie Taylor Greene's rift with Republicans reveals about MAGA's future

In an article for The Guardian published Sunday, columnist Arwa Mahdawi highlighted a startling turn in the rhetoric of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a figure long known for far"'right conspiracy theories and divisive behavior. Greene, according to Mahdawi, has begun to speak a modicum of sense, as she turns on her own party. This dramatic shift has seen Greene lambasting the direction of the Republican Party and accusing male colleagues of mistreating women.