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Health inspectors were not pleased during a visit to a prominent Trump hotel late last year, according to documents unearthed by NOTUS.According to a report the outlet published on Tuesday, Chicago health inspectors visited the Trump International Hotel on the city's Near North Side in December. While the location's Rebar Lounge and banquets area received passing grades, its main kitchen and rooftop restaurant, known as "Sixteen," received failing grades and were cited for a range of unsanitary conditions."The he

President Donald Trump is threatening to not sign any more bills into law until Congress passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) and gets it onto his desk for signature. But according to MS NOW reporter Jack Fitzpatrick, it is GOP lawmakers — not Democrats — who are worried.In an article published on March 10, Fitzpatrick reports, "President Donald Trump's pledge to stop signing bills until the Senate passes a hardline voter-ID measure is already causing heartburn for Republicans, with GOP sen

In early March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Hemani — a case that is bringing together an unlikely combination of liberal and progressive opponents of the War on Drugs and right-wing conservative and libertarian critics of gun control. At issue in Hemani is a federal law that prohibits gun ownership if someone "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance." The Hemani in the case, Texas resident Ali Daniel Hemani, is arguing that his constitu

President Donald Trump has spent the past few weeks repeating that he refuses to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, But back home, the Trump administration has significantly undermined security at the nuclear power plants around the country, CNN reported Tuesday.Drastic cuts to the federal regulatory agency responsible for keeping nuclear power plants safe will instead shift to a model of "self-policing" by the corporations that profit from nuclear power. "As it embarks on a reorganization to fulfill executive orders from President Donald Trump, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is propos

In a report from Axios on Tuesday, inside sources revealed "one of the biggest tactical miscalculations" made by the U.S. military under Donald Trump's watch, and it is a mistake that has likely cost lives in the ongoing war with Iran.According to the report, the military turned down an offer from Ukrainian officials to sell them technology that could successfully counter Iran's Shahed drones. This technology had been "battle tested" against the drones, as Russia deployed them frequently during its ongoing invasion of the Eastern European nation. A PowerPoin

President Donald Trump is trying to rebrand his presidency as some kind of religious or "moral crusade" in a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism, warned one commentator. Salon columnist Chauncey DeVega wrote Tuesday that Trump’s rhetoric about defending “innocence,” “family values” and “Western civilization” adds to his growing war in Iran. It's consistent with the Christian nationalist philosophy and his placement of Christian nationalists in top administration posts."This imagery grows from fer

The hardline House Freedom Caucus is poised to swell its ranks among Texas members after a successful primary season in which two challengers backed by the group’s political arm won their primaries and a third candidate nearly won outright in a nine-way open race.Tuesday was an ascendant night for the conservative group — often a thorn in the side of House GOP leadership — and its imprint on Texas’ congressional delegation. The Freedom Caucus could end up doubling the number of Texans on its roster come next Congress, pushing the state’s delegation further to the right and adding reinforcements who appear willing to follow the group’s obstructionist playbook.Known for its conservative absolut

After Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, his administration — with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), then led by Elon Musk — carried out a program of aggressive downsizing at federal government agencies. Trump insisted that his goal was to attack "waste, fraud and abuse." But critics, at the time, argued that the mass layoffs were depriving those agencies of valuable expertise.Now, with the United States at war with Iran, the Trump Administration/DOGE cuts are drawing new criticism for, according to CNN, making the U.S.

The race to replace former MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene might be an easy win for the GOP, but they are still on defense as Democrats rake in huge fundraising gains and look to seize a "rare opportunity" in a deep-red state.The race is underway to fill the congressional seat in Georgia's 14th District, left empty after Greene resigned from Congress amid her dissatisfaction with Donald Trump's second term and the MAGA movement overall. Trump has endorsed former prosecutor Clay Fuller, but as The

Michigan’s so-called “false electors” case is over after Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Monday she would not appeal a judge’s decision to dismiss the charges faced by 16 individuals who signed documents attempting to certify Michigan’s slate of electors for Donald Trump in 2020, despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state.In a sweeping 110-page report, Nessel said that she still believes false electors committed crimes, but concluded that the resource-intensive case would be unlikely to ultimately succeed. She also s