2+ hour, 49+ min ago   (131+ words) “President Donald Trump has agreed to a significant portion of a stringent ethics proposal that is part of broader cryptocurrency legislation headed for a key vote this week, according to three of the bill’s main Republican authors,” the Associated Press…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago   (143+ words) “The Trump administration plans to announce Monday that the United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas,” the New York Times reports. “The shift by the Environmental…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago   (202+ words) “Yemen is the latest domino to fall in the chain of instability set off by the U.S. war with Iran, a development that deepens the risk to global energy supplies and complicates efforts to find a diplomatic off-ramp to the…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago   (143+ words) “The Serious Newsperson cast of correspondents was different — goodbye, Scott Pelley; hello, Ross Douthat — and the production values seemed glossier, a little more Vice News than Huntley-Brinkley Report,” the New York Times reports. “But for all the Sturm und Drang…...

7+ hour, 51+ min ago   (129+ words) “Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas’ coming election, already ranks as the late-night host’s second-most viewed YouTube video of 2026, less than three days after being uploaded,” The Wrap reports. “In the…...

12+ hour, 26+ min ago   (278+ words) “President Donald Trump said he would remove U.S. tariffs on Irish whiskey, announcing the move Sunday as he attended a golf tournament at his family’s course in western Ireland,” Bloomberg reports. Think You Know Politics? A new game every day....

15+ hour, 18+ min ago   (197+ words) Wall Street Journal: “This week, a set of Georgian developers are planning to launch marketing on the Trump Tower Tbilisi, unveiling renderings on a skyscraper poised to be the country’s tallest. The Georgian investment firms signed a branding deal with…...

16+ hour, 46+ min ago   (123+ words) “President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. should have the lowest interest rates in the world even as his handpicked chair for the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, faces renewed pressure to raise borrowing costs,” Bloomberg reports. Said Trump: “We should…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (158+ words) “As Jimmy Kimmel‘s interview with James Talarico nears 7 million views on YouTube, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr weighed in on Saturday evening, accusing the Texas U.S. Senate candidate of orchestrating a ‘hoax’ to drive up ‘clicks and donations,'” Deadline…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (143+ words) David Graham: “A paradox of this moment is that inflation is a big reason for Trump’s cratering approval and his party’s sinking odds in the midterm elections, but nearly every one of his signature policy ideas is inflationary. The basic…...