The very Republicans who helped President Donald Trump secure his majority in the House now face the possibility that their districts will be eliminated after the president sparked an arms race over congressional maps. Last month, the president called for “just a simple redrawing” of Texas’ political districts, which are already heavily gerrymandered, to help Republicans pick up five more …
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EXPANDING INVESTMENT CHOICES FOR 401(K) PLANS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to allow 401(k) investors to access alternative assets for better returns and diversification. The Order directs the Secretary of Labor to reexamine the Department of Labor’s guidance on a fiduciary’s duties regarding alternative asset investments in ERISA-governed 401(k) and other defined-contribution plans. The Order instructs …
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PROHIBITING POLITICIZED OR UNLAWFUL DEBANKING: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to ensure that Federal regulators do not promote policies and practices that allow financial institutions to deny or restrict services based on political beliefs, religious beliefs, or lawful business activities, ensuring fair access to banking for all Americans. The Order directs Federal banking regulators to remove …
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UPDATED: Donald Trump took some credit for another media figure’s departure from the airwaves — even though, in the case of Howard Stern, neither he nor SiriusXM has confirmed that he’s about to exit. In fact, Stern hosted his show on Wednesday, taking a break from his vacation and promising that he would return on Sept. 2. “We’ll be back …
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(Composite / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock) IF THERE’S ONE THING DONALD TRUMP HATES—and there isn’t just one thing, there are lots of them—it’s unfavorable statistics. That’s why he was so bent out of shape when the Bureau of Labor Statistics had the audacity to report lower-than-anticipated job numbers, prompting him to fire its commissioner, Erika McEntarfer. “We need accurate Jobs …
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On Friday, Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons made a public trade request. On Saturday, Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones publicly called B.S. on the move. Parsons hasn’t responded directly. Indirectly, he has. An Instagram post depicting Parsons in a Rams uniform drew a reaction from retired Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald. “If [Parsons goes] to the Rams I might have …
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The United States Department of State has announced the first foreign citizens to be subject to bonds of up to $15,000 should they visit the country on tourist visas. On Tuesday, Zambia and Malawi, both African countries, were the inaugural entries on a list of countries that the State Department will subject to visa bonds. The idea, announced earlier this …
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On August 4th Donald Trump took to Truth Social, his social-media platform, to berate India: because the country’s “massive” oil purchases fund “the Russian War Machine”, he said, it would suffer substantially steeper tariffs than the 25% the president slapped on the country last week. In some ways the president is not wrong: Russia supplied a negligible 0.2% of India’s …
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Even without a new album or tour this year, Swift is still outselling almost everyone else This week, President Donald Trump once again decided to bring up Taylor Swift, still feeling slighted at her Democratic voting patterns. He made another post on Truth Social, celebrating Sydney Sweeney’s controversial “great jeans” ad for American Eagle as well as the revelation that …
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The list of mainstream news figures that Donald Trump hasn’t gone after continues to dwindle. On Monday night, Trump turned his attention to Gayle King, the co-host of CBS Mornings, by sharing a New York Post story that cast doubt on her future at the network with the pending Skydance-Paramount Global merger, that’s set to close Thursday. Trump posted on …
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