The New Republic

Alabama Senator Katie Britt praised President Donald Trump’s tariffs in public, but behind closed doors, the Republican lawmaker begged for relief, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who serves as a special envoy for peace in the Trump administration, has made billions of dollars for his investment firm from donors in the Middle East at the same time.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

The Trump administration’s implacable assault on civic life has had many inflection points—cracks that signaled the astonishingly rapid shattering of what many Americans understood to be our bedrock sociopolitical order.

During Xaq Webb’s years of radical optimism, he thought little of the Texas Democratic Party.

Barack Obama has a private warning for Democrats: They badly need to grab hold of the debate over artificial intelligence, and quick.

The Federal Reserve’s Open Markets Committee, or FOMC, meets September 15 and 16 to decide whether to raise interest rates, lower interest rates, or leave them the same.

Amy Acton comes from struggle.

After AI scientists and executives called for a slowdown in unrestrained AI development, Donald Trump unleashed a series of crazed tirades to the contrary.

A whistleblower has alleged that federal investigators violated state law in a desperate attempt to find proof of President Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud.

While at a campaign rally in Kansas for incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall, Vice President JD Vance was interrupted by a heckler.

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are filing lawsuits against the Trump administration to prevent the Department of Homeland Security from changing the “public charge” rule, increasing the power of federal immigration officials to deny green…

America’s billionaire president is preaching to his followers that the threat of artificial intelligence is a “hoax.”

Staff at Alligator Alcatraz called them “calming areas.”

A coalition of NFL owners have deemed Macklemore unfit to perform in their stadiums.

Pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil is suing his alma mater, Columbia University, for failing to protect him and other students from harassment over their activism against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Attorney General Todd Blanche invoked the Alien Terrorist Removal Act for the first time ever to expel Nazira Haji Zada, a lawful permanent resident from Afghanistan, from the country for allegedly being the “matriarch” who helped radicalize her Islamic e…

Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.

Donald Trump Jr.’s new wife defended her husband’s “dear friend” Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, following a bombshell report that he dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars on their wedding.

Florida will likely send a neo-Nazi to its state House of Representatives.

Donald Trump thinks JD Vance is “terrific,” but he still isn’t ready to endorse his number two guy in the 2028 race.

Industry leaders in artificial intelligence are sounding the alarm over the catastrophic risks of unchecked progress—but President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance insist that everything is fine.

President Trump’s allies claim the Kennedy Center for the Performing Center will collapse unless he gets to take it over and put his name on the building.

President Donald Trump and his three sons are poised to receive a massive payout from their shady crypto scheme, The Washington Sun (formerly NOTUS) reported Monday.

The Environmental Protection Agency no longer intends to protect any environment from the interests of America’s power plants.

President Trump doesn’t want us to know what he’s using artificial intelligence for.

Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish destination wedding was bankrolled by a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, ProPublica reported Monday.

President Donald Trump didn’t seem to remember the January 6 Capitol insurrection when asked about one of his Truth Social posts by a reporter Sunday.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 14 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

On her Substack over the weekend, Mary Trump, the good Trump (there had to be one), recalled the following word salad her uncle gurgled out on the 2024 campaign trail: Under the Trump economic plan, we will cut your energy prices in half.

The Second Amendment protects the right to “keep and bear arms.”

On August 28, roughly a quarter of a million Icelanders took to the polls to register their thoughts on whether Europeans would steal their fish.

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Many Americans who live in suburbs and rural areas don’t like the big, left-leaning metropolitan areas nearby.

This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 11 episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon.

Donald Trump raged at a reporter who asked about his “midterm convention” offer to send $5,000 to voters if the GOP holds Congress.

In 2021, Andrew and Stevi Groetsch started building a modern ranch-style home across from a peaceful stretch of farms in Vineland, New Jersey.

We live in a time, journalist Amy Westervelt laments in her new book, Brought To You By, when “millions of people have been convinced that it is patriotic to be antidemocracy [and] that doctors are not to be trusted but podcasters are.”

In the theater, there’s an old saying about “Chekhov’s gun” that basically goes like this: If the playwright shows the audience a gun in the first act, you are locked into a certain plot inevitability—that gun will go off in the final act.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe can be paid for with funds from the so-called “Trump Platinum Card,” which hasn’t even been launched yet.

Sorry to break it to you, but New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weren’t actually cracking up at the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

Security at the Republican National Convention kicked a trio of Epstein survivors out of the event after a journalist they were accompanying dared to ask a House candidate about the Epstein files.

The contractor President Trump hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is taking full responsibility for the pool’s torn blue paint and lining.

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, NPR spoke with a support group for undocumented workers who served on cleanup crews following the attacks—individuals who are now being tirelessly persecuted by the Trump administration.

Donald Trump doesn’t care about anybody but himself, according to Republican insiders.

Former San Francisco immigration Judge Chloe Dillon has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Justice Department fired her for challenging Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s tactics.

For the anti-abortion movement, overturning Roe v.

A Florida county’s mail-in ballot envelope design was almost rejected by the U.S.

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Health Secretary Robert F.