August 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM EDT
'Stop the steal!' MAGA rep files bill for citizens-only Census following Trump's demand

A freshman Republican has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives to mandate a citizens-only U.S. census, following a demand from President Donald Trump. But legal scholars say the Constitution is clear: it requires counting all persons, including U.S. citizens, legal residents, and undocumented immigrants. U.S. Rep. Randy Fine filed the "Correct the Count Act" without any co-sponsors.

August 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM EDT
'I didn't accept': Epstein reportedly bragged about rejecting Trump White House job offer

Just days after President Donald Trump's first election victory in 2016, he reportedly called his longtime friend, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and offered him a job in his administration. That's according to Epstein's former butler, Valdson Vieira Cotrin, who gave a wide-ranging interview to the UK-based Telegraph about his 18 years working for Epstein. Cotrin -- who managed Epstein's Paris estate -- recalled a conversation the two had while he was picking up Epstein at the airport upon his arrival in France.

August 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM EDT
'More like Billy not-for-Long!' Trump loyalist running IRS mocked after abrupt removal

Billy Long is no longer the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after just two months on the job, according to a report by the New York Times. The Times' Andrew Duehren, Maggie Haberman and Alan Rappeport reported Friday that Long's tenure atop the tax collection agency was abruptly cut short for unspecified reasons, and that he will soon be named to an ambassadorship. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as acting IRS commissioner until Trump names a permanent replacement.

August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM EDT
'Grim': Top economist says Americans in for a 'nasty shock' on inflation thanks to Trump

Citing President Donald Trump's "really extreme policies on both trade and immigration," and particularly his tariffs, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, one of the nation's most prominent economic voices, is warning that the U.S. could soon face "stagflation"""a toxic mix of high inflation, rising unemployment, and stagnant demand. "It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation," Krugman wrote on Friday. Noting that "it's all about Trumponomics," he warned that "the data really are looking increasingly stagflationary."

August 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM EDT
'I was kidding myself': Lawyer regrets burying Trump's alleged affairs

Attorney Cameron Stracher tells the New York Times that he regrets being the lawyer who made two alleged affairs by then-candidate Donald Trump go away. Stracher was the general counsel for American Media in 2015 when former doorman Dino Sajudin approached The National Enquirer with a story that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock with a woman who had worked for him.

August 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM EDT
Hegseth under fire for endorsing Christian nationalist

In his short time as U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth has tested the boundaries of the separation between church and state at the Pentagon. On Thursday night, he took things a step further by promoting an interview of Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson""the leader of the church Hegseth follows""who has called for America to become a Christian nation, and the world a Christian one. "All of Christ for All of Life," Hegseth posted on social media, from an account marked with a grey checkmark that says, "This account is verified because it's an affiliate of @DeptofDefense on X."

August 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM EDT
'This is nuts': Prosecutor says 'there's a realistic chance' SCOTUS tosses Maxwell's conviction

Elie Honig, a former federal and state prosecutor, tells the Intelligencer that convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction could actually get erased. "There's a realistic chance the U.S. Supreme Court throws out Ghislaine Maxwell's child-sex-trafficking conviction and 20-year sentence," writes Honig. "I don't like it any more than you do " her chances are far better than the typical Supreme Court appellant's."

August 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM EDT
Failure to fund key program 'puts Republicans in a bind' ahead of make-or-break midterms

When President Donald Trump signed his "big, beautiful bill" into law over the 4th of July Weekend, many of the law's critics warned that its steep cuts to Medicaid would, according to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data, cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance. Another major worry, critics say, is that failing to fund subsidies for the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare, will render countless Healthcare.gov users uninsured.

August 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM EDT
Trump 'officially reneging' on major campaign promise in effort to please evangelical base

When Donald Trump was on the campaign trail in 2024, he declared himself the "father of IVF" and promised to fund in vitro fertilization treatments for women experiencing fertility problems. Trump, at a town hall in October, told attendees, "We want fertilization, and it's all the way." But Salon's Amanda Marcotte, in article published on August 8, lambasts Trump for reneging on that campaign promise. And she lays out some reasons why.

August 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM EDT
'Frightening': CEOs 'really uncomfortable' with Trump's threats against business leaders

The business world is now starting to speak out against President Donald Trump's hostile attitude toward CEOs who don't do what he likes. That's according to a Thursday article in the Wall Street Journal, which reported that Trump's latest threat against Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan prompted a strong reaction from several corporate executives. In a Truth Social post this week, Trump demanded Tan "resign immediately" from the company or that Intel's board fire Tan due to his investments in Chinese semiconductor firms, saying there was "no other solution to this problem." Bill George, who is the former CEO of medical device company Medtronic, told the Journal : "It's wrong for the president of the United States to be telling a major corporation's board to fire their chief executive." He added that unless Tan broke the law, he had no reason to resign from the company.

August 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM EDT
'It's so lazy': Kristi Noem complains about South Park's brutal portrayal of her

During a recent appearance on far-right commentator Glenn Beck's show, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem made it clear she wasn't a fan of animated series South Park's new episode mocking her and other members of the Trump administration, calling it "lazy." "It's so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look. It's only the liberals and the extremists who do that," Noem said.

August 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM EDT
Ex-GOP staffer says these 2 facts prove Trump is behind 'system-wide cover-up' of Epstein

One former Republican U.S. Senate staffer is arguing that President Donald Trump's administration is plainly executing a "cover-up" of unreleased Jeffrey Epstein evidence in plain sight. During a Thursday segment on MSNBC's "The Weeknight," Amanda Carpenter -- who was a communications staffer to Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) -- said that "two facts" proved that both Trump and senior administration officials were scrambling to prevent the public from learning damning new information about the president and his former friend. MSNBC host Michael Steele began the interview with Carpenter by opining that none of Trump's actions toward chief Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell were done out a sense of duty to provide justice for their victims, but because he saw it as a "political problem."