Posts by Amelia Frost
Trump Meets With Tiger Woods About Merging PGA Tour with LIV Golf
President Trump, using the power of the presidency to intervene in global sports diplomacy, on Thursday deepened his efforts to broker an elusive agreement involving the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league that could ultimately benefit his family’s golf courses. For the second time this month, Mr. Trump hosted key negotiators at the…
Read MoreMarshall Rose, Who Helped Revive Two New York Institutions, Dies at 88
Marshall Rose, a real estate developer who was instrumental in reviving the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and transforming the adjacent Bryant Park from a mecca for drug dealers into a verdant Midtown oasis, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his…
Read MoreFull List of Republicans Who Broke From Trump to Vote Against Kash Patel
Kash Patel was confirmed as the new FBI director on Thursday. Latin Times The Senate confirmed Kash Patel to become Director of the FBI on Thursday by a vote of 51-49. The only Republicans to break ranks and vote against Patel were Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins. Every Democrat voted against the confirmation,…
Read MoreI.R.S. Fires 6,700 Employees Amid Tax Filing Season
The Trump administration started firing about 6,700 employees at the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter, extending its cost-cutting measures to the federal agency responsible for collecting tax revenue from millions of Americans. The job cuts at the I.R.S. are hitting probationary employees who were recently hired around the…
Read MoreMusk Called Out After Complaining His Own Fact-Checker Is Contradicting His Zelensky Claims: ‘You Can’t Stand the Truth’
Elon Musk was met with backlash after he criticized his own social media platform’s fact checking feature. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Elon Musk publicly criticized X’s Community Notes system for contradicting claims that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is widely unpopular and afraid to hold elections. In a post on Tuesday, Musk accused Community Notes—the fact checking…
Read MoreTrump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations
The Trump administration is targeting government officials who had been flagging foreign interference in U.S. elections, despite ongoing concerns that adversaries are stoking political and social divisions by spreading propaganda and disinformation online, current and former government officials said. The administration has already reassigned several dozen officials working on the issue at the Federal Bureau…
Read MoreNewly Named FBI Director Kash Patel Suggests Federal Workers Who Disagree With the President Should Be ‘Put in Jail’ in Resurfaced Clip
A Republican senator called out President Donald Trump’s FBI Director nominee Kash Patel for his “aggressive political activity” in her vow to vote against his nomination. Getty Images Freshly confirmed Director of the FBI, Kash Patel, suggested that federal employees who disagree with the President should be imprisoned in a resurfaced clip on social media.…
Read MoreFox News, CNN and Other Outlets Urge White House to Drop AP Ban
Dozens of major news organizations, including CNN, The Washington Post and Fox News, wrote to the White House this week urging the Trump administration to immediately lift its ban on The Associated Press, which had been prohibited from attending a number of official press events over the past week. The White House has said it…
Read MoreTrump Tests Fed’s Independence With Order Expanding Authority Over Agencies
The situation gets even more complicated when considering the other activities the Fed undertakes, especially during times of crisis, that do not neatly fall into either the monetary or the regulatory bucket, Ms. Judge said. For example, during the Covid-induced economic shock in 2020, the central bank aggressively intervened in a range of debt markets…
Read MoreNominee for Deputy Transportation Secretary Comes Under Fire for Handling of Boeing
Democratic senators on Thursday questioned Steven Bradbury, President Trump’s nominee for deputy secretary of the Transportation Department, about his handling of the congressional investigation into two Boeing Max plane crashes in 2018 and 2019, and his safety record during his previous tenure at the agency. The Boeing investigation occurred during Mr. Trump’s first administration, when…
Read MoreThis Is The Amount Of Money It Would Take Americans To Quit Their Job To Travel The World
the village of Positano on the Amalfi coast in southern Italy. FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images A recent study revealed that for many Americans, the dream of dropping everything to travel the world has a price tag—an average of $287,731, to be exact. A Talker Research survey of 2,000 people found that Baby Boomers wouldn’t…
Read MoreDemocratic Senator Mocks Trump After He Referred to Himself as ‘King’: ‘A Royal Pain in the Ass’
TheWhiteHouse/X Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) didn’t mince words after President Donald Trump declared himself a king, branding him “a royal pain in the ass.” “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED,” Trump boasted on Truth Social Wednesday. “LONG LIVE THE KING!” The White House’s official account on X even tweeted…
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