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What’s in a name?Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Sunday claimed he “could care less” about “the name of a building or infrastructure project” after the New York Times on Friday reported top White House officials pressured Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to help name multiple U.S. facilities after President Donald Trump.But one reporter resurfaced an old Lawler tweet that shows the Republican lawmaker wasn’t always so magnanimous about infrastructure name changes.According to the Times, citing four people familiar with the conversations, top Trump administration o

President Donald Trump on Sunday jumped into the fray of MAGA Republicans complaining about U.S. athletes at the Olympic Winter Games in Milan who’ve expressed unease about recent actions by the federal government.As the New York Times reports, “By Sunday morning, no member of the U.S. team in Italy had spoken publicly in support of the Trump administration. U.S. Olympic committee guidelines stipulate that athletes can advocate social and racial justice, but should avoid partisan politics.”Still, athletes have been forced to a

British-American journalist Sarah Baxter on Sunday laid bare the “deafening” silence of President Donald Trump’s inner circle as several of his top aides and advisors are revealed to have associated with late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.According to Baxter, the release of the Epstein files “has laid bare the immorality of America,” noting people who were “caught lying” about the extent of their relationships with Epstein are now forced to “duck and dive for cover.”“Their strategy comes straight out of the PR playbook of the malevolent Donald Trump whisperer, Steve Bannon, who was asked by his pal Epstein in 2019 whether to ‘continue to ignore’ personal attacks,” Baxter wrote. “Bannon said yes. Responding, he said, 'makes it

A court filing in a federal criminal lobbying case against a former Republican congressman confirmed what the government watchdog Public Citizen warned against as soon as President Donald Trump appointed Susie Wiles to be his chief of staff: that her “lobbying client list is both extensive and littered with controversial clients who stand to benefit from having their former l

Former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev, who once headed Kazakhstan’s security services, said both Kazakhstan and the Kremlin are in possession of an incriminating video of U.S. President Donald Trump, among other “compromising material,” Ukraine’s Kyiv Post reports.Mussayev on Friday spoke with Ukraine’s Espreso TV program “Studia Zakhid,” where the Kyiv Post reports he “reiterated a claim he has expressed publicly for years – namely, that there is a Kremlin file with compromising video material from Trump’s stay at Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel in 2013” for the Miss Universe pageant

Journalist Jonah Goldberg on Sunday explained the negative impact of President Donald Trump’s “garbage” Truth Social posts on his own White House agenda, noting the president is “constantly screwing up" the administration's messaging with his “irresponsible” social media habit.Speaking on Air Force One Friday, Trump tried to shift the blame for an AI video depicting former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. The post appeared overnight Thursday on the tail end of a video pushing

When President Donald Trump pressured state and local officials to intervene in his behalf in the 2020 election, it wasn’t a matter of abstract constitutional theory for the people running elections. It was armed protests outside offices, threats against their families, subpoenas for voter data, and months of uncertainty about whether doing their jobs would land them in legal jeopardy.This article w

With an upcoming FIFA World Cup being staged across the nation, 2026 was supposed to be a bumper year for tourism to the United States, driven in part by hordes of arriving soccer fans.And yet, the U.S. tourism industry is worried. While the rest of the world saw a travel bump in 2025, with global international arrivals up 4%, the U.S. saw a downturn. The number of foreign tourists who came to the United States fell by 5.4% during the

For more than a decade, the clean energy economy has been on a steep growth trajectory. Companies have poured billions of dollars into battery manufacturing, solar and wind generation, and electric vehicle plants in the U.S., as solar costs fell sharply and EV sales surged. That momentum is set to continue surging in much of the world — but in the United States, it’s starting to stall.This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here.According t

Pro-Donald Trump voices on the right erupted Saturday after American athletes voiced concern and disappointment over the state of affairs in the United States, including the ongoing unrest in Minnesota and militarized federal raids in Democratic-led cities around the country.As a Daily Beast headline reads, “MAGA sent into full meltdown over ‘traitor’ U.S. Olympians.”Team USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess