(The Center Square) – A limited ban on stock trading by Congress might get a vote next year after a 2012 law did not do enough to stem the practice that critics say is legal insider trading. The Center Square has been investigating the trades of lawmakers on key committees, finding trades that raise questions Read More…
(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1950, prompting strong backlash from medical, disability, religious and legal groups who say it was rushed and violates key ethical and legal protections. State Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, a practicing physician, said Pritzker showed signs of hesitation but ultimately “his leftist ideology took over and he Read More…
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a series of bills aimed at expanding the impact of the Working Families Tax Cuts by reducing regulatory barriers, streamlining permitting processes, and promoting economic growth. House Republicans framed the legislation as part of a broader pro-growth agenda to accelerate infrastructure, energy, and investment projects across the nation. “House Read More…
President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order this week aimed at creating a unified national policy framework for artificial intelligence (AI), addressing what the administration calls a patchwork of state regulations that threaten American innovation and competitiveness. The Order directs multiple federal agencies to take steps ensuring AI companies are not subject to inconsistent Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles The Obama intelligence community’s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized dirty tricks to try and help Donald Trump win the 2016 election was based on “one scant, unclear and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard [intelligence] reports,” according to a just-declassified report that had been Read More…
By Barry Poulson Politicians have basically given up on addressing our debt crisis. For decades, the national debt has grown at an unsustainable rate. Today, it stands at a mind-boggling $37 trillion. Advertisement Both political parties have thrown in the towel. But before we give up, we should understand how other countries have solved their Read More…
By L. Matthew Meyers So, I wrote an essay here at RedState not long ago, “Solidary Stops with The Jew.” Heart on the page. Blood. Fire. The whole thing. About Jews. Not theory, not metaphor. Jews. You remember us? People. Real. Suffering. Dead. Vanished. And guess what? Advertisement The fine readers at RedState naturally came Read More…
A trade agreement between the European Union and U.S. could be imminent. But until a framework is announced, nothing is guaranteed. The EU is still working on potential countermeasures it could impose in a no-deal scenario. US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the “Winning the AI Race” AI Summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Read More…
U.S. President Donald Trump will visit the Federal Reserve on Thursday, the White House said. Trump has repeatedly criticized Powell for not cutting interest rates. U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and U.S. President Donald Trump. Elizabeth Frantz | Nathan Howard | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump will visit the Federal Reserve on Thursday, the Read More…
Money talks, and Columbia University finally admitted that on Wednesday, after a stunning settlement with the Trump administration was announced. As Redstate reported, the Ivy League school has been a hotbed of pro-Hamas activity, including antisemitic harassment and violence. In the Spring of 2024, just as the presidential campaign was ramping up, terror supporters took Read More…
Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced an investigation into several universities that have been accused of giving scholarships to non-citizens. Advertisement In a statement posted on X on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s Education Secretary wrote that “Non-citizens should not be given special preference over American citizens for scholarships at American universities.” “@usedgov opened an investigation into five universities for allegedly blocking U.S. students from Read More…
I think Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard proved on Wednesday that she wasn’t fooling around or playing games when it came to the bombshell revelations about the Russia Collusion hoax. Advertisement During a White House briefing, Gabbard revealed she made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice to investigate the revelations. READ MORE: Gabbard Read More…
Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., has introduced a bill that would exempt millions of U.S. small businesses from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods. Two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, are cosponsoring the legislation. The bill addresses the tariffs that Trump first announced on Feb. 1, comprising a 25% overall Read More…
[The stream is slated to start at 5 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump is set to deliver remarks on artificial intelligence and sign AI-related executive orders as he rolls out his administration’s “action plan” to give the U.S. a competitive Read More…
President Donald Trump was told in May by Attorney General Pam Bondi that his name appeared multiple times in Department of Justice documents about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Street Journal reported. Trump’s meeting with Bondi at the White House occurred weeks before the DOJ said it would not release the Epstein files to Read More…
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, sued right-wing podcaster Candace Owens for repeatedly falsely claiming that Brigitte Macron “is in fact a man.” The Delaware Superior Court civil complaint says that Owens used the “false statement … to promote her independent platform, gain notoriety, and make money. Emmanuel Macron, President of France, arrives Read More…
A federal judge denied a request by the Trump administration to unseal the transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to a criminal investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Florida in the mid-2000s. The ruling does not affect other pending requests by the Department of Justice that seek to obtain transcripts of grand jury proceedings Read More…
Both the State Department and the Department of Education announced new investigations into universities. Harvard University, a frequent target of the Trump administration, is the subject of a new evaluation of its eligibility to participate in the Exchange Visitor Program, the State Department said. The University of Louisville, the University of Nebraska Omaha, the University Read More…
President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Japan, which he said includes a 15% tariff rate and $550 billion of Japanese investments in the U.S. A card on his desk with details of the deal shows discrepancies and last-minute edits, according to a photo posted on X by Dan Scavino, the White House deputy Read More…
“We have Europe coming in tomorrow, and the next day, we have some other ones coming in,” U.S. President Donald Trump said late on Tuesday. The Aug 1. deadline for 30% tariffs on imports from the EU to the U.S. is just days away. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs Read More…
Chinese and European Union leaders are meeting at a summit in Beijing on Thursday, with trade tensions running high. The summit marks 50 years of bilateral relations between China and the 27-nation bloc. The U.S., especially President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, is complicating EU-China ties. A staff member prepares for the arrival of Chinese Vice Read More…
The U.S. and Indonesia agreed to the framework of a trade agreement, the White House said in a joint statement. Jakarta will drop almost all tariffs on U.S. goods, while imports to the U.S. from Indonesia will be set at 19%, according to the statement. The U.S. and Indonesia will continue to “negotiate and finalize Read More…
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty in Oklahoma federal court to leading a theft ring that stole catalytic converters and sold them for more than $600 million to a refinery that extracted precious metals contained in the devices. Navin Khanna is the latest person to plead guilty in connection with the ring. Khanna said he Read More…
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, reportedly shared a fake, apparently AI-generated letter purporting to show Jerome Powell resigning as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The phony letter — addressed to “The President” — featured a garbled Fed seal with non-English characters and a slightly misshapen depiction of an eagle, as well as some unusual text spacing. Read More…
President Donald Trump said the U.S. has “concluded” a trade deal with the Philippines that includes a 19% tariff on goods imported from the southeast Asian country. “In addition, we will work together Militarily,” Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing the deal, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. has “concluded” a Read More…
The House of Representatives will begin its August recess early to avoid Republicans being forced to vote on Democratic-backed motions related to the Jeffrey Epstein files. “There’s no purpose for Congress to push an administration to do something that they’re already doing,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters. U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Read More…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. is likely to hash out an extension of President Donald Trump’s upcoming trade deadline with China. Bessent said he will be meeting with his Chinese counterparts in Stockholm, Sweden, next week. The two sides in mid-May agreed to a 90-day suspension of most of the heavy tariffs on Read More…
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he plans to meet soon with Ghislaine Maxwell to ask her about other potential sexual abusers. Maxwell, a British socialite, is serving a 20-year prison term for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking enterprise. Epstein, a former friend of President Donald Trump, killed himself in a federal Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Although Robert Mueller failed to find an election conspiracy between Donald Trump and Moscow, the former Special Counsel threw a lifeline to the Russiagate narrative by alleging that the Kremlin had engaged in a “sweeping and systematic” effort to get Trump elected and “sow discord” among Americans. Six years later, Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles There is a sickness inside our hearts. It aches for something brighter, better, a more resplendent mode of being. God, perhaps. Or temporary deliverance from the pain of being alive, and of knowing we will die. It urges us to create something: family; home; work; and art. To contribute something Read More…
In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller is joined by Ana Kasparian to break down her latest investigation into Los Angeles’ ballooning police overtime budget—and the unintended fallout from efforts to defund the LAPD. Despite cutting thousands of officers since 2020, the city is now spending more on policing. Staff is stretched thin, and Read More…
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X Story Stream recent articles The floodgates holding back long-buried classified documents exposing government efforts to claim Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election might finally be opening. Trump administration officials held an urgent meeting Sunday to discuss “new information on Russiagate,” which they might use to build a Read More…
The artificial intelligence revolution is upon us, and Gov. Josh Shapiro wants Pennsylvania to win. In June, the governor announced Amazon’s $20 billion plan to build data center innovation campuses across the Commonwealth – by far the largest private-sector investment in the state’s history. “The future of AI is going to run right here through Read More…
More propaganda may soon be coming to a school near you, thanks to some of the same groups that have already gotten calls for Israel’s destruction into K-12 curricula. Pro-Palestinian activists, who could barely wait a day after the October 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 people in Israel by Hamas to accuse the Jewish state Read More…
Texas State Senator Angela Paxton filed for divorce Thursday from her husband, Attorney General Ken Paxton, ending nearly four decades of marriage between two prominent Republican political figures. The filing, made in Collin County, cites adultery and irreconcilable differences as grounds for the split. Angela Paxton publicly confirmed the divorce on the social media platform Read More…
In his book, Murray centers his discussion around four educational truths: · Academic ability varies. · Half of the students will always be below average. · Too many people are going to college, and many are suffering because of it. · America’s future depends on how we educate those who do belong in college. Murray is aware that these Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Donald Trump is the first mythic hero of the twenty-first century. That many recoil at this statement does not deny its obvious truth. Heroism isn’t about winning a popularity contest. The modern usage of the term hero has stripped the concept of its former glory. A man who runs into a burning Read More…
(The Center Square) – As lawmakers begin crafting the 12 annual appropriations bills to fund the federal government in fiscal year 2026, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has implied that his party will refuse to cooperate in the process if Republicans revoke billions in funding from previous years. The Senate is set to vote Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles With donuts now over $20 a dozen and a cup of coffee topping $3, working a shift for the Los Angeles Police Department isn’t what it once was. But with overtime pay at 1.5 times the regular hourly rate, LAPD officers aren’t having trouble footing the bill at Randy’s or Starbucks. Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Explosive new evidence suggests that some of the highest-ranking officials in the Obama-era CIA and FBI perjured themselves regarding their claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin helped Donald Trump secure his victory in 2016. A newly released CIA review challenges their sworn denials to Congress that the Steele dossier – Read More…
How do you go from 100% to dead? That is the tragic enigma which changed Jim Foote’s life. In 2004, Foote’s 15-year-old son, Trey, was diagnosed with bone cancer. After chemotherapy and surgery, doctors told him, “We never say it’s [cancer] 100% dead. It’s 100% dead. You’re good.” Three months later the cancer returned. In Read More…
“Liberty is the great parent of science and virtue,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in a 1789 letter to the President of Harvard. “A nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.” Jefferson taught our nation to treasure freedom. Some historians call him the President who most loved liberty—and it is no Read More…
Officers can well identify the potential trouble ahead when they see neon-colored, candy-flavored disposable nicotine vapes. They also can – and should – help authorities track them to the distributors and international smugglers who poison our children and fund their drug and arms businesses. I have spent more than four decades walking evidence lines, logging Read More…