Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was presented a real head-scratcher on Thursday, he admitted at a press conference. “We’ve got a spike in oil prices today that I don’t really understand,” Bessent said during a White House address.Bessent made this bold claim as the international price benchmark for…
Even if Democrats sweep the midterms, the country could be barreling toward a cascade of crises that no election can head off. That’s the warning from national security journalist Marcy Wheeler, the independent reporter behind the long-running blog emptywheel.In a post published Thursday, Wheeler ar…
Wild horses couldn’t keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of miles, and sold off to be slaughtered, the New Y…
As CBS News head Bari Weiss helps ready the next season of “60 Minutes,” there are complaints that she has refused to understand how segments are produced.In a deep dive by New York Magazine into the turmoil under the controversial Weiss, who has driven the CBS Evening News to horrific low ratings s…
A company that won a $1.5 billion government contract with help from a lobbyist who channeled millions of dollars into a Trump cabinet member’s reality show has done no work — except eating some doughnuts, according to a new report. Virginia-based contractor Peraton has infuriated Federal Aviation A…
The question of how controversial conservative gadfly Scott Jennings landed his high-paying gig on CNN may have been answered by one of his former students.Jennings, who is reportedly being eyed by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to replace the equally controversial Karoline Leavitt, has beco…
To historian Heather Cox Richardson, the Republican frenzy over White House aide Natalie Harp isn’t a scandal that ambushed the administration, but rather one the administration was only too glad to have.The furor began Sunday, when Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) needled the president at a reelection rally….
Donald Trump’s ballroom ambitions are running into trouble on two continents — and in Ireland, the obstacle is a snail.According to The Washington Post, Trump and his family have promised to build “the nicest ballroom in Ireland” at the Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, a 12,000-squ…
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino alarmed insiders in President Donald Trump’s orbit after he unleashed a mysterious profanity-laced tirade against unnamed staffers Tuesday night.Scavino’s Wednesday night blowup, posted on X, seemed to be triggered by leaks from at least one former Trump…
After President Donald Trump escaped Turkey in a catering cart alongside his close aide, Natalie Harp, the 35-year-old captured the attention of a senator and sparked a media frenzy.That prompted her own estranged brother to speak out about what he called her “unhealthy obsession” with Trump, tellin…