March 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM EDT
'Fight club mentality': Why Trump is insisting on not giving 'scalps' to his opponents

During his chaotic first term as president, Donald Trump clashed with many of the traditional conservatives he appointed to key positions -- including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and National Security Advisor John Bolton. Trump fired many of his officials, while others resigned in frustration. Trump's second term is also chaotic, but in a different way. The president has made a concerted effort to fill his second administration with loyalists, and according to Semafor reporters Shelby Talcott and Burgess Everett, he is trying to avoid firings this time.

March 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM EDT
'Even the rich are worried': Experts warn of 'scariest' signs amid 'stagflation' fears

Warning signs are flashing red in a week where troubling economic news has turned unmistakably grim. Consumers should brace for a surge in terms like "inflation," "stagflation," "Trumpflation," and "recession" dominating the headlines. Reports are now showing consumer confidence has plummeted to its lowest level in 12 years, the markets are currently tanking, analysts have downgraded predictions for stocks, core inflation is rising, GDP projections have been sliced in half or are now negative, unemployment is expected to increase, and some major corporations are projecting sales decreases.

March 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM EDT
'This is illegal': Critics slam Musk for 'bribing people to vote' in key WI race

This Tuesday, April 1, Democrats and Republicans will be paying very close attention to a Wisconsin Supreme Court election. The race is technically nonpartisan, yet it is being viewed as a referendum on President Donald Trump's policies -- and in a key swing state that Trump lost in 2020 but won in 2016 and 2024. One of Trump's closest allies, billionaire Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk, will be in Wisconsin this Sunday, March 30 to rally for the conservative candidate Brad Schimel -- who is up against liberal Susan Crawford. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Alison Dirr, Daniel Bice and Molly Beck, Musk "has poured about $20 million into the race to back" Schimel.

March 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM EDT
'Full-on Soviet': Trump's 'improper ideology' purge blasted as 'fascist thuggery'

President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, mandating the removal of what he calls "improper ideology," is being described as "chilling," amid warnings of fascism. The order also criticizes the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Women's History Museum, and the American Art Museum. Issued Wednesday evening, the "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order denounces what Trump describes as "a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth."

March 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM EDT
'I expected more': Ex-'MAGA junkie' removes Trump flag as DOGE cuts elicit 'buyer's remorse'

In Wood County, West Virginia, Donald Trump won more than 70 percent of the vote in the United States' 2024 presidential election. According to CNN's John Berman, the fact that Trump campaigned on cutting government waste worked to his advantage in Wood County. But in a segment broadcast on Friday morning, March 28, Berman and his colleagues took a look at Wood County voters who favored Trump in 2024 but now have "buyer's remorse."

March 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM EDT
'Unlawful behavior': George Will slams Trump's 'chest-thumping' and 'defiance of clear legal stricture'

Over the years, conservative Washington Post columnist George Will has never been shy about criticizing left-wing professors and activists on college campuses -- often arguing that "freedom of expression" suffers when conservative and libertarian students are discouraged from speaking their minds. Academia, Will often says, should not be a "safe space" for the left, but rather, an environment in which the left and the right are encouraged to engage in vigorous debates.

March 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM EDT
We're talking to our neighbors about the MAGA rampage -- and people are listening

We're out there. In the small-town schools and rural hospitals. On county roads and at the family reunion.

March 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM EDT
'Open declaration': Hegseth slammed over new tattoo seen as insult 'to the Muslim world'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was seen with a new tattoo earlier this week while visiting U.S. troops in Hawaii. And it's causing a stir among the Muslim community due to what some view as an implied message. The Daily Beast reported Thursday that Hegseth first showed off the new tattoo on his left bicep when training with sailors at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickman on Tuesday. Hegseth's tattoo is known as a "kafir (????)," which translates to "infidel" or "disbeliever" in Arabic. Journalist Tam Hussein, who is Muslim, observed that the kafir tattoo is directly under his "Deus Vult" tattoo, which is a slogan from the Crusades that translates to "God wills it."

March 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM EDT
'Why would you want to do that?' Top GOP senator sides with Dems against Trump on key issue

President Donald Trump's support among the Senate Republican Conference may be eroding as he attempts to solidify his control over a specific power the Constitution exclusively grants to Congress. The New York Times reported Thursday that Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, is now siding with her Democratic colleagues as Trump attempts to wrest control of spending authority. Collins co-signed a letter to Trump with ranking member Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) protesting Trump's refusal to disburse $2.9 billion in funding already approved by Congress.

March 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM EDT
'Might be a little upset': Senator reveals why Elon Musk still holds a grudge against him

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently doubled down on his attack against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) in which he called the former astronaut and Naval officer a "traitor." During a Thursday interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, Musk said he still viewed Arizona's senior U.S. senator as a "traitor" because of his support for helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia's invasion. The South African centibillionaire argued Kelly should "care about the interests of the United States above the interests of another country."

March 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM EDT
'It's just that simple': Rubio admits to jailing immigrants for their political views

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now plainly saying that President Donald Trump's administration is targeting immigrants for detention and deportation if they support the wrong causes. In the wake of this week's arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rumesya Ozturk (who was in the United States legally on an F-1 visa until it was revoked), mass protests have been taking place in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Somerville, attracting thousands of supporters. Ozturk co-authored an op-ed last year in the Tufts Daily calling on her school to divest its endowment from Israel due to its killing of Palestinian civilians.

March 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM EDT
Canadians slash US travel as prime minister says 'old' relationship with America is 'over'

The Canadian Prime Minister and the Canadian people are expressing anger and frustration with Donald Trump, following months of attacks, and now threatened as well as actual double-digit and even triple-digit tariffs, by the U.S. President on America's northern neighbor""one of its oldest and closest allies, both economically and geographically. Canada's new Prime Minister, liberal Mark Carney, has been in office for nearly two weeks but has yet to speak with President Trump. He did, however, deliver a speech on Thursday announcing that the U.S is "no longer a reliable partner"""and that the "old" Canadian-U.S. relationship has ended.