The War of Money in the White House; Bessent Is Right. Lutnick’s Delays Are the Problem.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on CNBC and said the quiet part out loud: multiple agencies—Treasury, Defense, State, and the U.S. Trade Representative—had been pushing for months to put Megaspeed on the Entity List, the…
How the Nvidia “Honeypot” Scandal Should Backfire on China
China’s Ministry of State Security ran a classic honeytrap on Jensen Huang, the man who built Nvidia into the indispensable engine of the artificial intelligence race. U.S. intelligence concluded that Alice Huang (also known as…
Trump Not Expected to Raise Nvidia Chinese Spy Allegations With Xi
Administration officials say President Trump is not expected to bring up the Nvidia espionage controversy when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in Shenzhen next week. The focus, they say, will…
Top Democrat Launches Investigation Into Whether RFK Jr. Lied to Congress
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, joined by Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, has opened an investigation into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The claim is that he lied during his January…
Supreme Court to Decide if Trump Can Bar Most Asylum Claims at the Southern Border
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear whether President Trump can continue barring most asylum claims at the southern border. The case is Mullin v. Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. It…
JD Vance Is Wrestling With 2028 — And the Party Needs Him to Get This Right
Vice President JD Vance was supposed to be the clean handoff. The guy who could take the America First coalition that delivered 2024 and keep it moving once Trump leaves the stage. After last week’s…
Susie Wiles’s 2024 Campaign Strategy: Analysis
Susie Wiles served as co-campaign manager (with Chris LaCivita) for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. She later became White House chief of staff before being replaced by Stephen Miller after the 2026 midterms. Her approach…
Emmys Snub Chuck Norris In Memoriam. Politics.
Monday night the Television Academy ran the In Memoriam at the 78th Emmys. Noah Kahan sang “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” They carved out special stages for Rob Reiner, Catherine O’Hara, and Dolly Parton. They found…
Paramount Studios Threat to Flee California Could Cost Nearly 58,000 Jobs and $21 Billion a Year. That’s What Sacramento Built.
A leaked analysis from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation’s Institute for Applied Economics puts a price tag on David Ellison walking Paramount Skydance out of California: 28,990 to 57,980 full-time jobs gone for…
Milo Yiannopoulos ICE Detention: Visa Overstay Is Not a Special Exception
Milo Yiannopoulos is a British citizen. He entered the United States legally through New York on May 14, 2019. He stayed after that welcome expired. He missed an immigration hearing. A judge issued a final…