Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they will not support the House-passed funding bill that would delay a government shutdown for six months, and insisted on the Senate voting on a 30-day extension instead.
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Lower energy prices drove down inflation in February, according new federal data released this week.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data Wednesday showing inflation rose just 0.2% last month, part of a 2.8% rise over the last year. The average annual inflation rate from January’s data was 3%, so overall annual inflation dropped in February.
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that the agency will take 31 “historic actions” to roll back the Biden administration’s climate agenda in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order to “Unleash American Energy.”
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The German government for years concealed an assessment by its Foreign Intelligence Service that a lab origin of COVID-19 was overwhelmingly likely, according to a Tuesday investigative report by two German newspapers.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday temporarily paused funding to the entire University of Maine System (UMS) due to the state’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills refusing to comply with President Donald Trump’s order banning men from competing in women’s sports.
Trump and Mills had a fiery exchange at the White House in February in which the president called the governor out for pledging not to comply with the order to protect women’s sports, which Mills responded by threatening legal action against the president. The USDA opened an investigation into Maine’s department of education the following day to review UMS’s compliance with Title IX, which protects women from discrimination.
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on social media that it has ordered the cancellation of over 200,000 credit cards that were being used by federal agencies.
As reported by Fox News, the statement on DOGE’s X account declared that it had carried out a “pilot program with 16 agencies to audit unused/unneeded credit cards.”
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The European Union (EU) on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade measures against the U.S. with a slew of new tariffs on American industrial and farm products.
The European Commission is levying sweeping tariffs on up to $28 billion worth of U.S. goods, according to a press release. The EU’s decision comes after President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports from all U.S. trading partners went into effect at midnight Wednesday.
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Breitbart President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has arrested about 33,000 illegal aliens across the United States — including thousands of gang members and terrorists — since Jan. 20, when he took office. In a briefing call with media on Wednesday, ICE officials said agents had…
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CBS News An activist who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University will remain detained in Louisiana following a brief Wednesday court hearing. Judge Jesse Furman said he would grant a request by Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers allowing them to have privileged phone calls with Khalil at least twice — today…
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Miami Herald The Trump administration is weighing including Cuba and Haiti on a list of countries whose nationals will face restrictions to enter the country, sources with knowledge of the ongoing discussions told the Miami Herald. Cuba, which is on a State Department list of countries that sponsor terrorism,…
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