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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller compared Washington, DC’s violence levels to Baghdad and other dangerous global locations, following US President Donald Trump‘s suggestion to federalise the city.During an interview with NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer, Miller said that Washington DC is more violent than Baghdad, Ethiopia, and other parts of dangerous world. “The president has been very clear that …

ENDING GRANT ABUSE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order stopping unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from wasting taxpayer dollars on frivolous grants. Going forward, President Trump’s appointees will review funding opportunity announcements and grant awards to verify that each grant dollar benefits Americans instead of lining grantees’ pocketbooks or furthering causes that damage America. Award decisions will undergo more …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

(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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …