President Donald Trump left political observers scratching their heads Thursday after declaring that Chinese President Xi Jinping is “an expert on stone” who “loves good granite.”“We had a great meeting, and he has great interest in granite,” Trump told reporters after showing Xi the new White House…
Month: September 2026
Mortgage rates have reached their highest level during either of President Donald Trump’s terms, adding to the strain on Americans already struggling with high prices. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 7.03% this week, up from 6.95% last week, according to CNN, which cited figures…
President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Food and Drug Administration left Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) briefly speechless by declining to say whether an intrauterine device causes an abortion.Heidi Overton, a physician and White House domestic policy adviser, appeared before the Senate Health, Educatio…
Onlookers bristled after former White House adviser Ivanka Trump got a better seat than Secretary of State Marco Rubio at President Donald Trump’s welcome ceremony for Chinese President Xi Jinping.Ivanka Trump and her teenage daughter, Arabella Kushner, sat between Second Lady Usha Vance and Rubio a…
President Donald Trump seethed at concerns about the Iran war in a secret meeting revealed by Tucker Carlson, telling the former MAGA ally that “we’ll all die anyway.”Carlson described the private Oval Office meeting in an interview on NPR’s Newsmakers podcast released Thursday. Carlson once spoke o…
The judge who ordered the White House to restore reporters’ press credentials overnight isn’t waiting around to see if his order continues to be ignored.Thursday morning, reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were turned away at Secret Service checkpoints despite U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly’…
NPR’s Steve Inskeep faced thunderous criticism for interviewing a seemingly contrite Tucker Carlson, who’s been trying to distance himself from President Donald Trump.The former Fox News host, who spoke at the 2024 Republican convention, told NPR that the 80-year-old president should be removed from…
An aide named in an explosive ethics complaint against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) reportedly got a warning from her ex-husband weeks before the allegations of affairs and payoffs became public knowledge — though what exactly he meant remains unconfirmed.Clarice Navarro, Boebert’s former district dir…
A central Bible verse left Alabama congressman Tommy Tuberville puzzled Wednesday — as he compared himself to America’s poorest people.Tuberville, a member of the conservative Churches of Christ denomination who frequently espouses his beliefs, including posting on his Facebook page, “As a man of Ch…
President Donald Trump posted a photo of himself an Chinese leader Xi Jingping that raised eyebrows for who else did and did not appear in the background.The 80-year-old president met his 73-year-old counterpart Wednesday at Joint Base Andrews for his first White House visit in more than a decade, a…