WTOP’s Kay Perkins breaks down the impact of DOGE’s influence on public health and disease management in the U.S. and around the world. This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker.In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. WTOP Explains: Trump’s Impact on Global Public Health […]
The Supreme Court on Monday vacated the contempt-of-Congress conviction against Steve Bannon, sending the case back to a lower court and clearing the way for it to be dismissed. The justices issued a brief order with no written explanation and no noted dissents. The decision wipes away a prior appeals court ruling that had upheld […]
Federal authorities have arrested a former military-affiliated employee accused of leaking classified information, as President Donald J. Trump intensifies efforts to identify and prosecute individuals responsible for unauthorized disclosures tied to national security operations. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the arrest of Courtney Williams, a former employee connected to a Special Military Unit who […]
The run-off election in northwest Georgia to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump ally-turned-critic who left her seat in Congress in January, has been called. VoteHub projected that Republican Clay Fuller has defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in the run-off election for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. It’s important to remember that turnout is usually low in […]
Left-wing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced a patently unconstitutional “racial equity” proposal on Monday that immediately drew the consternation of the Trump Justice Department, with one official vowing to immediately “review” the move. Formally called the “Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan,” Mamdani’s administration claimed in a press release that the report, which he […]
Elon Musk is not just the richest person alive. He is in a wealth category that has never existed before. At an estimated $811 billion according to the Forbes real-time tracker, Musk’s fortune exceeds the entire annual GDP of countries like Poland (~$750 billion) and Sweden (~$600 billion). He crossed $500 billion in October 2025, […]
When Elon Musk swept in to wreck our democracy last year, he brought with him his own private security detail. Rather than tell Musk’s rent-a-cop randos to get gone or assign Musk security from actual trained federal personnel, this administration took a more novel approach: Just have the U.S. Marshals deputize Musk’s security team as […]
President Trump on Saturday warned Iran of dire consequences if the Middle Eastern country does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz or agree to a ceasefire deal within 48 hours. “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Time is running […]
About six months before the first U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, the Trump administration gutted the Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR), an 80-person team within the State Department tasked with leading international energy diplomacy. The cuts were part of the then Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative to reduce the federal workforce, with the […]
Employers added 178,000 jobs in March, exceeding expectations, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor. The unemployment rate declined to 4.3 percent, reflecting continued labor market stability. The March gains followed a revised loss of 133,000 jobs in February, which was worse than initially reported. January job growth was revised upward […]
