Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington will be partially drained after vandals allegedly caused thousands of dollars in damage by slicing its newly installed industrial liner. Burgum said the vandals cut up to 350 feet of the liner. Authorities have arrested seven suspects in connection with the vandalism, …
The White House has released a 162-page report criticizing the Smithsonian Institution, accusing it of promoting “extreme political activism” and presenting what it described as a radical interpretation of American history. The report singles out the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, stating that its leadership has moved away from teaching a shared national story …
President Donald Trump confirmed that construction is underway on a new granite helicopter landing pad for Marine One on the White House South Lawn. Trump said Sikorsky Aircraft will cover the estimated $5 million to $6 million cost through a contribution to the National Park Service. The helipad will feature the White House seal carved …
George E. Johnson Sr., founder of Johnson Products Company, has died at the age of 99. He built the company behind Afro Sheen and Ultra Sheen, brands created for Black consumers. Johnson Products became the first Black-owned business listed on the American Stock Exchange. The company was also the first national sponsor of the television …
Hakeem Jeffries never stood at a podium and demanded that Trump supporters show him respect and retire the nickname “Dollar Store Obama.” That scene is invented, stitched together and stamped, right there in the corner, “ai generated.” So before we argue about whether the demand is reasonable, let’s retire the fiction that it happened. Now …
Representative Ayanna Pressley said that not one promise has been kept to Black Americans, that the country’s prosperity was built on 400 years of unpaid labor, and that the debt symbolized by “40 acres and a mule” was never paid. The tidy response is to call this divisive and move on. The honest response is …
When a sitting governor tells the public that federal agents are “turning the country into Nazi Germany by grabbing people off the street and disappearing them,” he is not clarifying a debate. He is ending one — for himself. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker chose the single comparison guaranteed to make the argument about his words …
Watch the exchange closely and you’ll notice something more revealing than either man intended. Jesse Watters asks JD Vance whether a Democratic midterm win means another Trump impeachment, and Vance answers without a flicker of doubt: “I’m sure he’ll get impeached.” No conditional. No “if the facts warrant it.” Just a prediction delivered like a …
A member of Congress earns $174,000 a year. That is a good living, well above what most Americans take home, and nowhere near enough to explain how so many of them leave office with net worths measured in the millions. The gap between the paycheck and the portfolio is the story, and it is long …
The image is built to make you feel something before you’ve had a second to think. A woman in sunglasses stands in a sunlit park, holding a hand-lettered cardboard sign that reads, “I hope you are proud of yourself for voting for Trump.” It is composed like a candid moment of raw conviction. It is …
Tom Homan gave the tidiest possible answer to an untidy question. Asked by ABC’s Cecilia Vega whether mass deportation could happen without tearing families apart, the border czar didn’t blink: “Of course there isamilies ssentence, delivered like a magician revealing there was never a trick at all. Families can just be removed together. Problem solved. …