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Although Donald Trump appointed Jerome Powell to head the U.S. Federal Reserve during his first presidency, he has been vehemently critical of him since returning to the White House. Trump's animosity stems from Powell's refusal to dramatically lower interest rates. While Powell favors lowering them gradually, Trump wants a dramatic interest rates cut ASAP.Powell's term as Fed chair ends in May, and Trump is expected to appoint a loyalist who will do exactly as he says. And conservative Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) is sounding the alarm about Trump's push to end the Fed's independence from the White House — as well as the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launching an investigation of Powell. In a

President Donald Trump trolled critics by giving himself a new job title: Acting President of Venezuela. In a Truth Social post late Sunday, Trump shared an image of his Wikipedia page that lists his job titles and dates. The new "job" was listed under the photo. The post comes after Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado told Fox News that she would "share" the Nobel Peace Prize with Trump as he took a big "first step" to reestablishing legitimate democracy in the country. The actual Wikipedia article was not changed. Commentators were quick to respond, calling out the seriousness of Trump

All over the United States — from Los Angeles to Philadelphia to Chicago — large protests are being held following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. The shooting is being condemned as excessive force by everyone from liberal economist Paul Krugman to conservatives and libertarians such as The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson, MS NOW's Joe Scarborou

On Saturday, hours after U.S. forces in Caracas killed at least 80 people and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump sounded less like a wartime commander than a developer surveying a newly acquired property. The country’s future, he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort, belonged to “very large United States oil companies,” which would soon be pumping “a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground.”The land in question includes the largest proven oil reserves on Earth — at some 300 billion barrels, roughly 17 percent of global total

Election officials from around the country gathered at a conference in Virginia this week, giving us — and one another — a chance to hear what they’re thinking and worrying about as they plan for the midterm elections this year.This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.One of their most pressing concerns: the mail. Updated guidance from the U.S. Postal Servic

At the same time agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol are swarming into Minnesota and other states and cities, Trump is planning bombing raids on other countries. Domestically and internationally, he is putting America on a war footing.ICE is reportedly investing $100 million on what it calls “wartime recruitment” of 10,000 new agents, in addition to the 20,000 already employed. Its recruitment is targeting gun and military enthusiasts, people who listen to right-wing radio, who have gone to Ultimate Fighting Championship figh

A small detail has stayed with me from the video of Renee Nicole Good being shot to death in Minneapolis by ICE officer Jonathan Ross.In the video, she’s behind the wheel, signaling with her left hand to the driver of an ICE vehicle that she’s letting him go before she goes. Then out of that vehicle come two officers. One goes straight to her door. “Get the f--- outta the car,” says the officer, who is not Ross. Then he tries to open her door. That’s the small detail I’m talking about and here’s the reason it has stayed with me. I have been pulled over a few times in my life – for speeding or turning right on a red light when it should not have. But I cannot

Elliot Abrams, President Donald Trump’s former special representative for Venezuela, “voiced incredulity” over the president’s Venezuela policy, NBC News reports.Trump earlier this month announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife at their home in Caracas by a

American hedge fund manager and billionaire Bill Ackman took to X on Saturday to comment on President Donald Trump's claim that he would cap all credit card interest rates at 10 percent as of Jan. 20, 2026. However, a former Ronald Reagan Cabinet secretary encouraged Ackman to stop sucking up to Trump. "I think President @realDonaldTrump’s goal of reducing credit card interest rates is a worthy and important one. My concern about capping rates at 10 percent is that doing so will inevitably cause millions of Americans to have their cards cancelled as credit card companies lose the ability to adequately price subprime credit risk," Ackman wrote. "Consumers denied credit cards will be forced to turn to loan sharks whose rates and terms will be vastly worse for borrowers. While 2

President Donald Trump threatened Cuba on Sunday morning via his Truth Social account and now Cuba is responding. In a post, he wrote, "Cuba lived, for my years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided 'Security Services' for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!""THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA — ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT," the president added.Reuters national security reporter Phil Stewart wrote on X that later Sunday morning, Cuba responded with its own statement on Trump's threat.Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel told Reute