The man Donald Trump appointed to oversee America’s fastest-growing financial frontier stood before Congress on Thursday and issued his starkest warning yet — but critic Trump’s Predictions say the agency he leads may have a credibility problem it cannot regulate away. Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Trump administration’s…

THE CLAIM: President Trump posted on Truth Social that he does not want “a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon.” THE VERDICT: FALSE. Pope Leo XIV has never said, written, implied, or suggested that Iran should obtain nuclear weapons. The claim is a fabrication with no factual basis in…

When a president posts an AI image of himself healing the sick like Christ, declares a civilization must die in God’s name, and frames a 38-day war as divine mission — faith has stopped being a comfort and started being a weapon. The risks of that choice are only beginning to surface. WASHINGTON — History…

Trump pardoned him. California disbarred him anyway. John Eastman — the architect of the legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election — has been stripped of his law license in a landmark ruling that exposed the limits of presidential pardon power and sent a direct message to every lawyer who puts loyalty above the law.…

The White House released a record-breaking $1.5 trillion defense budget request — how Trump is using the Iran war to reshape all federal spending while gutting domestic programs. There is a line in the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal that functions as the clearest statement of national priorities in modern American history. President…

WASHINGTON / VATICAN CITY — It began with a white robe, a glowing hand, and a sick man in a hospital bed. On the night of Sunday, April 12, President Trump posted an AI-generated image to Truth Social depicting himself in white robes with a red sash, his right hand placed on the forehead of…

They arrived in Islamabad carrying the weight of a six-week war, a fragile ceasefire, and the highest diplomatic stakes either country had faced in a generation. Twenty-one hours later, the American delegation boarded Air Force Two without a deal. Within 24 hours, the USS Abraham Lincoln was in position off the Iranian coast. This is…

In an unannounced White House appearance that blindsided her own staff, the First Lady delivered a point-by-point rebuttal of Epstein claims — and ended up reigniting the very story she sought to bury. She rarely speaks. She rarely holds press conferences. And she almost never addresses scandal directly. Which is why when First Lady Melania…

In a rare public broadside, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the Trump administration’s flood of emergency Supreme Court appeals is rewriting the rules of American judicial power — one rushed, unexplained ruling at a time. Standing before law students at the University of Alabama School of Law last week, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered…

While the cameras of the world’s press were fixed on Islamabad — tracking Vance, watching oil prices, reading ceasefire tea leaves — Donald Trump quietly signed one of the most consequential domestic power moves of his second term. On March 31, 2026, Trump signed an executive order titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal…