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The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments on Wednesday over whether Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook can stay in her job while she's fighting her firing by President Donald Trump. The lower courts are dealing with the direct firing itself. Things didn't appear to go well for the Trump administration with conservative justices, CNN reporters sai.“Is there any reason why this whole matter had to be handled…in such a hurried manner?” Justice Samuel Alito asked Solicitor General D. John Sauer. The conservative justice went on to call it “very cursory.”“What goes around comes around,” Justice Kavanaugh tol

Thirty-three days after the Trump Department of Justice was required by law to release the Epstein Files — but failed to produce even one percent of them — a federal judge has rejected a bipartisan effort to appoint a special master to oversee production of the documents.U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), went to court to make their request. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer declined that request, stating that

During his Wednesday, January 21 speech in Davos, Switzerland — which he is visiting to attend the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) — U.S. President Donald Trump angrily berated European leaders and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for not supporting his push for American control of Greenland, a Danish territory. Trump is refusing to rule out the possibility of taking the Arctic island by force, and many MAGA Republicans are hoping that the threat of tariffs will force European officials to go along with Trump's demands.But liberal economist Paul Krugman, in a

Donald Trump's former White House lawyer, Ty Cobb, commented that he's seeing a "significant decline" in the president's mental fitness. Trump spoke at a press briefing on Tuesday, where he went back and forth between listing off his accomplishments, attacking immigrants in Minnesota and slamming his foes. Cobb spoke to MS NOW's Ari Melber Tuesday evening in comments first cited by Mediaite. Cobb said that under Trump, the "guardrails" on the presidency appear "stressed."Howev

Donald Trump has run his second term in office like a "tabloid" magazine with a focus on "shock and awe" tactics, former biographer Timothy L. O'Brien argued in a Wednesday piece for Bloomberg, but it is a strategy that will leave the country doomed in the long-run.O'Brien, who previously worked with Trump for the 2006 biography, "TrumpNation," made frequent comparisons to the president's leadership style and tabloid magazines of old, like the Weekly World News, with its focus on "dubious," "trashy"

President Donald Trump drew sharp criticism at home as he delivered a widely panned speech to world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Perhaps never before has Trump given a major speech with so many immediate national and international crises at stake, including the future of Greenland, the future of NATO and Western alliances, global trade, inflation and the cost of living, Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, and the rise of China and authoritarianism. Much of the reaction to Trump’s remarks focused on his delivery and the audience’s response. “Trump can barely keep his eyes open during this speech,”

President Donald Trump gave a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday where he repeated his claim that the U.S. must acquire Greenland. Calling it nothing more than a "piece of ice," Trump insisted the island in the Arctic Ocean should belong to the U.S.Here are the six wildest claims Trump made about Greenland in his speech to the forum: 1. Trump says he "wasn't going to talk about" Greenland before beginning his tangent.After knocking Europe for not being as good as it once was, Trump said he wasn't going to talk about Greenland, but asked the audience if they wanted him to, prompting laughs from spectators."The fact is, no nation or group

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) still hasn't lived down his Feb. 2021 trip to Cancún, Mexico amid a winter storm that cut power to 4.5 million people and took hundreds of lives. Now he's at it again. As a new winter storm prepares to barrel across the U.S. over the weekend, Cruz was spotted on a plane to Laguna Beach, Florida. "Death, taxes, and Ted Cruz will abandon you as soon as the temperature drops," quipped Matt Royer, president of the Virginia Young D

Donald Trump's ICE onslaught against Minnesota and threats to forcibly seize Greenland by military force have dominated headlines for the last few weeks, but according to an analysis from Salon's Amanda Marcotte, these stories share a "common theme" with one of the president's biggest scandals, one he has been trying to keep out of the headlines: the Epstein files.According to Marcotte, Trump's actions related to Minnesota and Greenland have "successfully knocked the Epstein files out of the headlines — for now." Many Democratic lawmaker

When the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) got underway in Davos, Switzerland on Monday, January 19, European leaders were anxiously awaiting the arrival of U.S. President Donald Trump — who was scheduled to speak on Wednesday night. The event, which continues through Friday, January 23, comes at a time when Europe's dominant news story is Trump's obsession with buying Greenland, a territory of Denmark Trump has not ruled out the possibility of taking Greenland by force, and European leaders are warning that U.S. aggression against the Arctic island risks collapsing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In a