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President Donald Trump promised during his Tuesday State of the Union message to stop members of Congress from profiting from insider trading — and, in a rare moment, received bipartisan support.During a dramatic moment in his speech, Trump declared that Congress should “ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information,” adding they should “pass the Stop Insider Trading act without delay.” Even though Democrats joined Republicans in applauding and delivering standing ovations, Trump then t

The billionaire head of a Berlin-based global mass media behemoth that owns influential outlets including Politico, reportedly met with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Wednesday.Mathias Döpfner serves as chairman and CEO of Axel Springer SE, a publishing group that operates in dozens of countries and counts U.S. private equity firm KKR — co‑founded by Republican donor Henry Kravis — among its principal owners. According to

NBC News reports there a small rebellion brewing among the Republican Party’s cadre of traditionally patient women.“Republican Rep. Nancy Mace plans to force a House vote next week on her resolution to release sexual misconduct and harassment reports involving members of Congress,” NBC News reported Wednesday.That resolution, if successful, would require the House Ethics Committee to release all sexual misconduct or harassment reports involving members or their staffers. Prompting Mace’s push is the revelation that Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) sent sexually explicit

President Donald Trump’s Iran policy is so confusing, it is unclear whether the president himself is entirely clear on what he wants to achieve.Noting that Trump’s historically-lengthy State of the Union message “just a few minutes to the subject” and falsely implied Iran had never forsworn nuclear weapons, The Economist reported that Trump has also threatened Iran over killing protesters earlier this year, the existence of its missile arsenal or simply to commit a coup.“His ultimate goal remains a mystery,” The Economist wrote. “If war comes, it will be a war in search of an objective. Never before has America amassed so much firepower wit

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz responds to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, when the president repeatedly touted his tariffs as saving the country money and boosting the economy. Stiglitz says Trump’s “lies” about tariffs can’t erase the truth about how they have raised costs for most U.S. residents. “It is estimated the average family is paying somewhere between $1,000 and $1,700 in extra money because of the tariffs,” says Stiglitz. “His policies have failed.”This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: “Streets of Minneapolis” by Bruce Springsteen. Later in the broadcast, we wil

President Donald Trump is being trashed for the false claims he made last night in his speech, distorting the truth about the economy. But one former Republican leader said something worse is happening. Speaking to MS NOW's Katy Tur, fellow host Michael Steele said that voters are already telling the country that whatever efforts Trump has attempted aren't working. "He's upside down, not just with the broad swath of Americans. Independents, he's lost 43 points with Independents. He's down 16 points with his own base. I mean, come on," said Steele. He said that support among Republicans may still be high, but losing any ground is a unique situatio

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the president of conservative insurgency group the Georgia Republican Assembly has been hit with a $500k fine for his part in a massive Ponzi scheme that primarily afflicted Republican donors.The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger alleges that Nathaniel Darnell “used religion and shared political views to recruit some of his clients and steered them toward investments in First Liberty,” the force behind the scam that has either incriminated or victimized whole sectors of Georgia’s MAGA and Tea Party movements.In addition to the hefty fine and a “cease and desist�

President Donald Trump claimed credit for America’s record low murder rate — but top crime experts say the actual sources of the crime drop precede Trump’s recent second term.“The answer is, we don’t know,” said Jeff Asher, a crime statistician behind the Real-Time Crime Index, at a recent panel covered in a report by the gun violence magazine The Trace. The Real-Time Crime Index compiles data from hundreds of police reports all over America to accurately monitor crime patterns. Using his research, Asher concluded that the crime drop preceded Trump’s second term.“We

One of President Donald Trump's large donors and the Treasury Department Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, John Hurley, is officially out, and it's over targeting a specific group of people. The Washington Post confirmed on Wednesday that he was leaving after a huge conflict with Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over targeting the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota. Hurley began telling some of his colleagues last week t

Early Wednesday afternoon, February 25, the Washington Examiner's Kaelan Deese reported that the House Oversight Committee made a decision pertaining to its ongoing probe of the Epstein files: Depositions of two Jeffrey Epstein associates have been postponed until March.Deese reports, "A source familiar with the committee's planning told the Washington Examiner that lawmakers coordinated with former Epstein accountant Richard Kahn's legal team to adjust the timing, as he was initially slated to sit for his deposition in Washington, D.C., at 10 a.m. on Wednesday."According to the Examiner's source, the deposition of Kahn was moved from Februar