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On Friday, U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy — a Donald Trump appointee in Rhode Island — referred U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys to a court disciplinary committee. Politico's Josh Gerstein, reporting on X, noted that the ruling was "over handling of fight over trans medical care subpoenas to RI Hospital" — adding, "Earlier she agreed that presumption of regularity for [government] 'no longer holds.'"Gerstein tweeted a previous court document by McElroy, d

Longtime financial pundit Jim Cramer is worried. While President Donald Trump and his allies applaud Friday’s positive jobs report, Cramer thinks they’re not paying enough attention to the economic needs of “struggling Americans.”While the news that job numbers have increased by 172,000 is theoretically good, Cramer posted that he is “concerned that the administration is not sensitive to the huge number of people who are struggling because of gasoline and higher rates.”He specifically called out National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who had appeared on Cramer’s CNBC show Friday morning, where the official seemed to suggest that the positive jobs report m

The Southern Baptist Convention begins next week, and among the amendments being presented is a tougher rule to block women from the pulpit. Currently, the SBC only affirms that it believes women do not belong in the office of the pastor, its website says. It "is reserved for qualified men." There is no hard-and-fast ban. Al.com reported on Friday that a Samford University graduate will present an amendment that would officially ban women. "Rev. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said he plans to

President Donald Trump, on Thursday, announced that he plans to nominate Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche to head the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for a full term. The same day, Trump also told reporters that he has no plans to nominate Acting National Intelligence Director Bill Pulte as a permanent replacement for Tulsi Gabbard. Trump's Pulte appointment is drawing widespread

CNN host Dana Bash on Friday mocked members of the MAGA movement who appear to assume California is taking a long time to count votes because political hijinks are afoot. Fox News host Jesse Waters explained, "I can't prove it — but everybody watching thinks there's shenanigans when it takes this long." Fox's Greg Gutfeld similarly proclaimed, "You know what that means," when he was told it would take a week or more to count the ballots. "These are baseless, fraud claims," Bash explained.California elections have always taken this long, largely due to the massive counties with populations of over 5 million people. Los Angeles County, for example, has a population of 9.6 to 9.8 million people. It's twice the s

During their years in the White House, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush sometimes drew criticism from supporters for being overly deferential to their policy advisors — Obama with Wall Street insiders on economic policy, Bush with hawkish neoconservatives on foreign policy. But President Donald Trump, on the other hand, is known for surrounding himself with staunch MAGA loyalists during his second presidency — a pattern that, according to former National Security Council (NSC) and ex-U.S. State Department official Emily Horne, poses a major threat to the United States from a military/foreign policy standpoint.Appearing

Economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has pinpointed a series of events that have led to the rest of the world seeing America as “inessential.”Just weeks after President Donald Trump was sworn into his second term in office, he held a televised Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which he and his top administration officials berated the leader fending off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal war. “You don’t have the cards right now,” Trump told Zelenskyy. But according to Krugman, Zelenskyy has “quite a few cards, while Trump h

On Friday, the Trump administration celebrated a better-than-expected jobs report, which showed the U.S. gained 172,000 jobs in May. But while President Donald Trump may be patting himself on the back, one respected economist warns that the good news misses a “clear paint point” that shows the economy is shakier than the job numbers suggest. “This is the clear pain point in the economy,” posted Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal. “Wage growth in May was

President Donald Trump knows that his nominee for director of national intelligence can't be confirmed by the Senate. An exclusive Wall Street Journal report revealed that Bill Pulte, who Trump nominated this week, has a reputation of "moves fast and breaks things," as one CNN reporter said on Tuesday. The expectation is that Pulte will take Trump's revenge campaign up a notch, deploying the entirety of the U.S. intelligence apparatus agai

President Donald Trump is growing "weaker and weaker" by the day, and according to his one-time biographer, this is all being driven by an incurable flaw in his character. Michael Wolff is a veteran reporter and author, best known for extensive coverage of Trump's political career, based on contacts within his inner circle and administration staff. In the latest edition of his Daily Beast podcast, Wolff revealed