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Each time President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding his war on Iran, something suspicious happens: a smattering of prediction market bets are placed hours or even minutes beforehand, specifically pertaining to the news to come, which then pay off big when the announcement is made. This pattern — which has repeated again and again over the course of the war — has many suggesting that insider trading is occurring at the highest levels of government. In an investigation by

A prominent House Republican is breaking with President Donald Trump on the state of the U.S. economy — which the president in recent months has called the “hottest” in the world and suggested that the inflation and affordability crises have been resolved. But she’s also placing the blame on former President Joe Biden, well over a year after he left office.House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain “offered a rare acknowledgment from a GOP leader Tuesday that the U.S. economy might not be in tip-top condition,” Politico reported. “Now, I

President Donald Trump's escalating spat with Pope Leo XIV risks alienating Catholic voters without delivering any meaningful political gains for Republicans of faith. At the same time, the Pope's progressive stances on climate, inequality and immigrants are already dividing the faithful along partisan lines. Reporting on Monday, Puck News explained that while the rhetoric might fire up Trump's evangelical base, it could further erode GOP support, particularly among working-class and suburban Catholics in key swing districts. That will ultimately make downballot prospects more of a challenge at a time when they don't need any

Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next Federal Reserve Chair, will begin his confirmation hearings this week, and according to Politico, there is one key question above all that he will be unable to avoid throughout the whole process."The main thing that senators, Wall Street and the White House want out of Kevin Warsh’s nomination hearing for Federal Reserve chair on Tuesday is to know whether he will bow to President Donald Trump," the outlet proclaims in a piece from Tue

With just a month left until Georgia holds its three-way Republican Senate primary, the election has erupted into a full-on “triangular firing squad,” says Punchbowl News, with all three candidates doing their best to knock their opponents out of the race. They’re struggling to replace incumbent Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA), who not only leads in polls against all three GOP candidates, but has far outraised his challengers, boasting a

Paul Krugman and other major economists are warning that gas won't be the only thing that becomes more expensive because of U.S. President Donald Trump's war with Iran. A wide range of goods, according to Krugman, will become more expensive.Krugman told MS NOW's Ari Melber that economically, "It's going to get really, really ugly if this goes on for an extended period."Trump, however, is claiming that gas prices will "come roaring down" when the Iran war ends. But MS NOW's Akayla Gardner, in an article published on April 21

In the past, conservative Republicans ranging from Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush to GOP strategist Karl Rove were aggressive proponents of immigration. Reagan famously argued that Latinos were natural-born Republicans — they just didn't know it yet — and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a fluent Spanish speaker, expressed his pro-immigration views during appearances on Univision. But hardline views on immigration are a prime feature of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles have been a source of heated debates during his second presidency.In an

Over the past year, Democratic lawmakers and even a few of their Republican colleagues have struggled to use what legal tools were available to them to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. But lately, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee has reduced their options, leveraging a tactic that some say amounts to “the largest government cover-up in modern history.”During typical House Oversight Committee hearings, members of Congress can make motions and call for votes to subpoena individuals in any matter regardless of what a particular hearing happens to be on. For months now, representatives from both parties with an interest in the Epstein case have taken advantage of this to push for s

President Donald Trump hasn't had much positive polling since his so-called "Liberation Day," in April 2025, when he began instituting his tariffs. CNN's data analyst suggested that Trump simply admit he lost and move on from the issue. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against some parts of Trump's tariffs. requiring that corporations have some of the funds returned. Speaking to CNBC on Tuesday, Trump said he will "remember" which companies demand that the government return the funds collected from the tariffs. Trump had previously promised Americans that foreign countries would be the ones paying for his tariffs. That has not been the case, however. Companies paid the tariffs and some passed it on to customers.

The top cybersecurity agency in the U.S. government revealed that it doesn't have access to a key piece of software while the rest of the government does. According to an Axios scoop, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the U.S. government agency that works to help secure important things online, from banks to power plants. But now it's being "left behind," the report said, while industries worry about hackers using AI to target companies. "Anthropic decided against a public release of Mythos due to its unprecedented ability to quickly discover and exploit security vulnerabilities," explained Axios. They gave access to over 40 companies and organizat