Day: July 18, 2025

‘Irrelevant’: Senators push back against Vought’s call for more partisan spending process

1:32 am July 18, 2025

Senators are not thrilled with a top White House official’s comments that the government funding process should become more partisan, and fear that doing so could erode Congress’ power of the purse. Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told reporters during a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast Thursday morning that he believed “the appropriations […]

Biden-era policy indirectly paying for unaccompanied minors’ abortions rescinded by Trump DOJ

1:25 am July 18, 2025

The Trump administration reversed a Biden-era legal opinion from the Department of Justice on Thursday that permitted taxpayer dollars to be used for ancillary services associated with helping someone obtain an abortion, such as transportation costs. The policy was particularly used in aiding unaccompanied minor migrants to get abortions, according to the Trump administration. In […]

Coldplay’s Chris Martin calls out couple on Kiss Cam, sparking affair accusations

1:14 am July 18, 2025

What was supposed to be a romantic moment caught on the Kiss Cam during a Coldplay concert, has launched allegations of an affair. During the band’s performance at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA on Wednesday, Martin serenaded the crowd with an improv of “The Jumbotron Song” where he sang about couples featured live on the […]

Elizabeth Warren pressed on Mamdani and ‘intifada’ rhetoric, applauds how he’s ‘freaking out’ investors

1:03 am July 18, 2025

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., condemned the controversial “globalize the intifada” rhetoric plaguing NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, while also hailing that big businesses “are freaking out” about the democratic socialist. “What do you think of — you know, he was asked repeatedly to condemn or whether he would condemn this phrase, ‘Globalize the intifada,’” “Squawk […]

Feds charge 3 more men in Maryland MS-13 racketeering conspiracy involving murder: ‘Reign of terror’

12:46 am July 18, 2025

As suspected Maryland MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia stands trial in a high-profile criminal case, three more alleged MS-13 members in the state are being charged with racketeering conspiracy, including murder and drug trafficking. Commenting on the charges, acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galeotti said the men’s actions “furthered MS-13’s reign of terror across […]