Kanye West met with President Donald Trump on Oct. 11 at the Oval Office, giving an unprepared 10-minute monologue in front of reporters and drawing praise from Trump for his honesty. Donning a signature red “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat, West, sitting just feet away from the president at the Resolute Desk, talked freely about […]

A number of prominent Republicans, including the sitting president, have reacted with antipathy and condemnation over former Attorney General Eric Holder’s apparent call for violence. Holder, the latest in a growing list of prominent Democrats to use violent rhetoric against Republicans in recent months, urged fellow supporters to abandon former First Lady Michelle Obama’s previous […]

A pro-government newspaper in Turkey said they have identified a 15-member intelligence team allegedly involved in the mysterious disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Daily Sabah published images and security video of the so-called “assassination squad” as they entered the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul where Khashoggi—a prominent Saudi journalist and regime critic—was last seen entering […]

BEIJING—A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants President Donald Trump to help Muslims respond to a sweeping crackdown in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. The group proposed legislation on Oct. 10 that would urge Trump to condemn “gross violations” of human rights in the Xinjiang region, where the U.N. estimates that as many as 1 million […]

Singer and businessman Kanye West is scheduled to meet again with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, Oct. 11, nearly two years after West met with then-president-elect Trump at Trump Tower. West, who has been vocal about his support for the president, is expected to meet with President Trump and Trump’s son-in-law […]

A local NBC station has fired a reporter after he was seen wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat while covering a rally featuring President Donald Trump on Oct. 4. James Bunner, a multimedia journalist for KTTC-TV in Austin, Minnesota, was fired the day after the rally in Rochester. People attending the rally snapped pictures […]

The U.S. unemployment rate has dropped to 3.7 percent, reaching the lowest level since December 1969, as the economy continues full steam ahead. Government data for September also shows Hispanic unemployment dropped to 4.5 percent, matching the record low of July. Black unemployment dropped to 6 percent, nearly matching the historic low of 5.9 percent […]

Half of likely American voters approve of how President Donald Trump is handling his job, according to an Oct. 4 Rasmussen poll. In Rasmussen’s daily polling, Trump hasn’t hit 50 percent approval since Aug. 14; his high-water mark was 59 percent on Jan. 26, 2017, several days after his inauguration. In the latest poll, 37 […]

   

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, revealed she is a victim of sexual assault herself, in the wake of hearings surrounding Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. In a Sept. 30 interview with CNN, Conway defended the nomination of Kavanaugh and, at the same time, derided what she called “hypocrisy” from Democrats over the […]

NEW YORK—A crowd largely comprised of Iranian-Americans gathered to protest the Iranian regime and President Hassan Rouhani outside the hotel in New York where Rouhani is staying during this week’s meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. Rouhani arrived in New York on Sept. 23 to attend the annual General Assembly session, which starts on Sept. 25. “This […]

Google employees may have acted on their political biases, as indicated by internal emails obtained by The Wall Street Journal that found staff brainstorming and discussing methods to tweak the company’s search-related functions as a counter to President Donald Trump’s 2017 travel ban. Staff discussed modifying results to guide users toward sites on how to contribute […]

The White House has drafted an executive order that tasks federal agencies with examining online platforms for bias and antitrust issues. The early draft was first leaked to Bloomberg; text from the draft was then published by Business Insider. “Whether reading news or looking for local businesses, citizens rely on search, social media, and other […]

How do Trump’s moves to ease the environmental regulatory burden on industry affect my business and the thousands of other people doing the same sort of work? The answer may surprise you.

Californians bought more apparel from President Donald Trump’s official store than people from any other U.S. state, marking a surprising development in a state that mainly backed Hillary Clinton in 2016. According to Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, California residents are buying more “MAGA” or “Make America Great Again” apparel than Texas and Florida, two states […]

George Papadopoulos, once a campaign adviser to Donald Trump, is hinting that he was a target of an intelligence operation that put him at the center of an FBI investigation. In a series of tweets late on Sept. 10, Papadopoulos detailed his suspicions about a meeting with Alexander Downer—then-Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom—that […]

President Donald Trump called out Google for “rigged” search algorithms, in a string of early-morning Twitter posts that appeared to cite a PJ Media report that found liberal media dominates news search results. Trump accused the company of predominantly showing news results from the “fake news” media and questioned if the practice was lawful. His economic adviser, […]

Tiger Woods said that everyone should “respect” the office of the president, in response to an off-topic question during a press conference at a golf tournament on Aug. 26. After finishing the day’s round at the Northern Trust tournament in New Jersey, Woods was taking questions from the press about his performance. But one reporter asked him about his […]

President Donald Trump said that the mainstream media lost interest in the case of Mollie Tibbetts, the missing Iowa college student, when an illegal immigrant was arrested after leading investigators to the 20-year-old’s dead body. Tibbetts’ disappearance in mid-July was covered widely across the media and new developments were reported every few days or so. […]

Commentary On Aug. 21, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen accepted a plea agreement offered to him by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) prosecutor’s office. Cohen will be sentenced on Dec. 12 and the plea agreement let him avoid the maximum sentence he was facing of 65 years in prison. According to The New […]