A tropical storm named Dolly formed over the Atlantic Thursday, just two days after the death of country music icon Dolly Parton, forcing forecasters nationwide to clarify that the timing was “purely coincidental.” “The name Dolly replaced Diana after the 1990 hurricane season and was first used in …
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President Donald Trump’s order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America has already had one unexpected consequence: an unassuming doctor’s office in Florida is getting review-bombed.Trump issued the order as part of an escalation of his trade war, which has sharply raised taxes on Canadian…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) bragged about defeating Minnesota’s lawyers hours before an immigration officer whose release he could have prevented walked out of jail.Christian Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, was released from the Cameron County jail shortly after dawn, The N…
President Donald Trump’s order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” unleashed a wave of ridicule Thursday – and an immediate correction about the centuries-old name.“We’re into some real foolishness now,” Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote on social media. “It’s Lake Ontario, buddy.”Trump signed…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick gave a passionate argument for President Donald Trump’s push to shut down the Kennedy Center for renovation, arguing that in its current state, a chunk of concrete could dislodge from the structure and fall on people at any moment.The Trump administration and the Tr…
Rory Kennedy, the niece of former President John F. Kennedy, is raising new questions about what President Donald Trump may be “hiding” as he moves to close, renovate, and potentially demolish the Kennedy Center.“This is a clear example of overstepping,” Kennedy told the Daily Beast’s Obsessed podca…
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department defended new mail-in ballot restrictions by comparing election mail to cremated human remains and replica explosives.The argument came in a combined opposition filed Thursday in Boston federal court, where the department is fighting two emergency motions t…
Brevard County’s 2025 Deputy of the Year resigned rather than be fired after admitting he posed for a photograph investigators said showed him performing a Nazi salute.Deputy Michael Fultz, 24, quit in May as Sheriff Wayne Ivey prepared to fire him for “egregious misconduct,” according to internal a…
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” escalating his feud with Canada days after first floating the threat.”We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America,” Tru…
A new column offers an intriguingly optimistic prediction about President Donald Trump’s reaction to a potential Republican midterm wipeout.The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger argued the 80-year-old president is already bracing for a midterm defeat and will likely lash out at Republicans in Congress when it …