Donald Trump set for two-day Ireland visit in September The trip will include a visit to Co Clare, where he is expected to attend the Irish Open golf tournament. Evening Standard · Aug 2
Right-wing media's Hunter obsession Joe Biden’s troubled son has rehabilitated his image — not every Republican likes that Salon · Aug 2
Trump Threatens to Keep Todd Blanche as Acting AG, Revive Anti-Weaponization Bill if Senate Rejects Nominee President Donald Trump warned he could keep Todd Blanche as acting attorney general and renew efforts to pass an "Anti-Weaponization Bill" if Republican senators do not confirm his nominee for the Justice Department’s top role. Benzinga · Aug 2
Trump wades into Ceuta ‘catastrophe’ as US blames ‘radical left-wing policies’ for migrant surge Former Trump adviser Elon Musk compared the migrant crossing to the 2013 zombie film ‘World War Z’ The Independent UK · Aug 1
We're still living in 2020 Rand Paul's vendetta against the former chief medical advisor shows how we can't move beyond the year from hell Salon · Aug 1
Upheaval in Maine and another 100-day campaign - can Democrats pull it off? Troy Jackson gained the party nomination for Senate, but now he needs to consolidate support to take on Susan Collins The Guardian - US · Aug 1
Trump calls Ceuta migrant surge 'terrible' as White House blames far left Trump invoked the mass crossings into Spain's North African enclave to warn Americans about immigration, as the EU stressed the crisis had not spread to mainland Europe. Euronews · Jul 31
The Trump Admin Will Get a Stake In Six Semiconductor Companies. The Total Will Rise To 30 The Trump administration is set to get a stake in six semiconductor companies, according to a new report International Business Times · Jul 31
Donald Trump Tariff Manufacturing Job Loss: Lincoln Project Exposes 75,000 Lost US Factory Jobs The Lincoln Project has exposed a staggering Donald Trump tariff manufacturing job loss, revealing that 75,000 American factory roles and billions in construction have vanished since his inauguration. International Business Times UK · Jul 31
Seth Meyers on Trump’s unpopularity: ‘Madam Web has a higher audience rating’ The late-night host poked fun at the president’s record-low approval rating as he gets rich while Americans struggle The Guardian - US · Jul 31
A Response To National Review's Editorial on Justice Barrett "On the Supreme Court’s interim and certiorari dockets, Justice Barrett consistently stands apart from Justices Thomas and Alito when liberal lower courts run amok on hot-button social issues." Reason · Jul 31
Trump’s ‘Freedom Haulers’ event revealed something deeply unsettling about the president and his team ANALYSIS: Trump struggled to speak off-script and his transportation secretary jumped in to praise him. It was an uncomfortable dynamic that speaks to what’s happening behind the scenes, writes Holly Baxter The Independent UK · Jul 30
Trump's New Director of National Intelligence Is a Menace to Liberty As U.S. attorney, Jay Clayton subpoenaed journalists for reporting embarrassing information about the president's new plane. Reason · Jul 30
Why Did Dr Anthony Fauci Invoke the Fifth Amendment During Rand Paul's Senate Hearing? Dr Anthony Fauci shocked a Senate committee by invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, despite holding a preemptive presidential pardon, setting up a major legal showdown. International Business Times UK · Jul 30
The Guardian - US · Jul 30 ‘It’s a peptide wild west’: how RFK Jr is clearing way for a market of untested drugs A century ago, compounding pharmacies helped people get bespoke drugs. Now these less-regulated businesses are fueling the peptide boom
The Guardian - UK · Jul 30 Fifa’s sale of the century: how Kushners and Trump are at centre of a tangled web Joshua Kushner is now the kingpin in driving the sale of the World Cup to investors and family ties are tight around the project
The Guardian - US · Jul 30 US push to defund ‘DEI bike lanes’ will make roads less safe, advocates say Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets
International Business Times UK · Jul 30 Remove Him From the Room: Rand Paul Threatens Dr Fauci With Contempt After Fifth Amendment Stuns Senate Hearing Dr Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Senate hearing, sparking outrage from Republicans and a legal battle over his decision to avoid answering questions.
Salon · Jul 30 Judges slam Trump's "unethical" DOJ Federal judges have criticized the administration's prosecutors in hundreds of cases since Trump took office
Fortune · Jul 30 Trump's dollar déjà vu: what an uncanny chart about the greenback shows about American exceptionalism "It's the exact same pattern," LPL Financial's Adam Turnquist told Fortune. "Last week, I started refreshing data and here it is."
The Texas Tribune · Jul 29 Paxton lawsuit prompts end of federal endangered species protection for Texas lizard The state’s attorney general sued the Biden administration in 2024, citing incomplete data for the updated endangered status of the Permian Basin’s native dunes sagebrush lizard.
The Conversation · Jul 29 Regime Change might be 2026’s nonfiction bestseller. Here’s why it’s essential, chilling reading Not long after the second world war, the Jewish, German-born political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum. It suggests that simply comparing something to Adolf Hitler does not inevitably taint it with the Nazi dictator’s terrible crimes. Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn’t make all vegetarians…
The Guardian - US · Jul 29 Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned Six years on from Covid crisis, Republicans still politicizing science – and Fauci remains a political punching bag
The Independent UK · Jul 29 America is clear: It doesn’t like older lawmakers (but keeps voting for them anyway) The recent death of Sen. Lindsey Graham and hospitalization of Sen. Mitch McConnell has reignited debate over whether lawmakers are too old to serve
The Independent UK · Jul 29 Republicans want to hold Fauci in contempt for invoking the Fifth. Can they do that? Rand Paul wants the top doc to face ‘consequences’ for refusing to testify