Trump leaves a $14 billion Taiwan arms package undecided after his Beijing summit with Xi, calling Taiwan a 9,500-mile-away war he is not eager to fund.
Trump Waffles on $14 Billion Taiwan Arms Deal After Xi Summit, Leaving Taipei in Limbo Read More »
Trump told reporters Americans’ financial situations aren’t “even a little bit” a factor in Iran negotiations. The quote landed on a 3.8% inflation day as Republican lawmakers scrambled for a defense.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a 5th Circuit ruling that would have forced women back into
Kevin Warsh walks into the Eccles Building on Thursday as Federal Reserve chair, sworn in after a
Kevin Warsh Takes the Fed Today, and the Country’s Inflation Math Just Got Harder Read More »
Trump arrived in Beijing chasing a trade win. Xi reframed the summit around Taiwan, rare earths, and a pointed warning about war.
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Europe finalized a €90 billion Ukraine aid package and is sending it. In Washington, a $400 million tranche stalled and Congress had to force a vote with a discharge petition.
Europe Approved €90 Billion for Ukraine. Washington Is Still Fighting Over $400 Million Read More »
A 6-3 Supreme Court on May 11 cleared Alabama to scrap a Black-majority district held by Rep. Shomari Figures, eight days before the May 19 primary.
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Marty Makary resigned as FDA commissioner May 12 after Trump signed off on his firing over mifepristone and flavored e-cigarette policy fights.
Trump’s 72-hour Russia-Ukraine ceasefire is already cracking. Russia accuses Kyiv of 1,000+ violations; Ukraine reports civilian deaths in Zaporizhzhia.
The 2026 US counterterrorism strategy elevates cartels above ISIS, names al-Qaeda and ISIS-K as second priority, and creates a third ‘violent secular political groups’ category covering antifa and ‘radically pro-transgender’ activism.
Starting May 9, 2026, the State Department actively revokes passports for parents owing $100,000+ in child support, then expands to the $2,500 threshold. Notices, resolution paths, and what to do if you are abroad.
More than 100 immigration judges fired, 140 thinner-record replacements hired, training cut from 5 weeks to 3. Inside the DOJ overhaul that is reshaping a quasi-judicial system to guarantee outcomes.
FBI Director Kash Patel travels with cases of personalized Woodford Reserve bottles engraved with his name and the FBI shield. The Atlantic just surfaced the detail, while Patel is suing the magazine for $250 million over its prior drinking reporting and the bureau probes the journalist behind both stories.
Editorial analysis: what the Perry-Trudeau relationship reveals about Trudeau’s post-political brand and the economics of high-profile celebrity coupling.
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Barack Obama used Stephen Colbert’s near-final Late Show episode to flag DOJ politicization as the threat democracy cannot survive. Notes from a closing argument.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 81, is in critical but stable condition with pneumonia. Trump called him a ‘True Warrior.’ But the real story is the arc: from the man who steadied a nation after September 11 to a disbarred lawyer, $148 million debtor, and conspiracy theorist whose health crisis arrives at the end of one of the most dramatic descents in American political history.
The Trump administration has quietly frozen approximately 165 onshore wind projects by withholding Pentagon approvals, while the Department of the Interior paused all offshore wind leases citing classified national security reports. The result: America’s wind energy pipeline is effectively dead, and the ‘energy dominance’ administration just killed one of its fastest-growing domestic energy sources.
Trump launches ‘Project Freedom’ with 15,000 troops and guided-missile destroyers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran claims it struck a US frigate with two missiles. The Pentagon says that’s propaganda. The three-week ceasefire is cracking in real time, and the consequences for global energy markets and American foreign policy credibility are enormous.
