Tag: trump
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The cattle industry needs facts, not tweets | Rachel Gabel
Journalists, love them or hate them, are bound by the responsibility of reporting the news from the outside. They are tasked with asking questions, even if answering them exposes the announcement’s weaknesses. Especially if asking questions exposes the holes. They are bound by ethics and meant to report news without inserting themselves into it. They…
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U.S. launches fresh strikes after Iran attacks ship
WASHINGTON/DUBAI – The U.S. military said it launched another round of strikes on Iran after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck a container ship traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. A series of attacks between the U.S. and Iran over the past several days led President Donald Trump to declare the end of…
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Democrats call for probes into Trump crypto earnings
WASHINGTON • A group of high-ranking Senate Democrats Friday called on their Republican counterparts to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures pose national security risks. Democrats sharply criticized Trump’s recent financial disclosure showing he generated at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures, and accused the president of engaging in corruption by unduly profiting off…
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Iran, US continue escalating attacks, recriminations over peace deal
CAIRO/WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) – Iran and the U.S. continued their attacks in the Gulf as each accused the other of violating an interim deal signed less than two weeks ago to end their four-month-old war. Shortly after President Donald Trump warned the U.S. might “militarily complete the job”, Iran early on Sunday launched missiles…
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Trump administration investigates Cherry Creek School District for alleged racial discrimination
The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into Cherry Creek School District on Monday over allegations of racial discrimination. The department said its Office for Civil Rights is reviewing claims that the district violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by sponsoring “a wide range of racially-discriminatory programming.” The complaints alleged the district…
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Moderates are not our salvation | Mike Rosen
The word “moderate” is a fashionable term these days as the remedy to the nation’s sharply divided politics, but it’s highly overrated and largely inaccurate. A stark example is Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who was elected governor of Virginia in 2025 as a self-declared moderate, promising not to redistrict the state if elected, having branded gerrymandering as “detrimental to our democracy” as a Congresswoman in 2019. In her first…
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Trump says not to rush as details emerge of a potential Iran deal
CAIRO (AP) — The United States is close to reaching a deal with Iran that would end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and see Iran give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, regional officials told The Associated Press on Sunday, though U.S. President Donald Trump said he told representatives “not to rush…
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Trump talks up his ballroom plan while playing down Americans’ economic pain
WASHINGTON • Standing in front of the White House ballroom construction site, President Donald Trump appealed for patience from Americans struggling with soaring gas prices as he sought to justify the cost of a project critics call a vanity effort. “This is peanuts,” he said on Tuesday in an apparent reference to the economic damage…
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LETTERS: Frustrated with deliveries; we all need a hug
Frustrated with deliveries I’m at my wits’ end with all the UPS, FedEx, and Amazon delivery drivers. It seems that since the pandemic ended, they have gotten lazy.They don’t ring doorbells, and lately I’ve had packages delivered in front of my garage doors in the rain. I was home at the time. Is it so…
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Trump unharmed after shooting incident at White House correspondents’ dinner
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists’ dinner attended by President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed him and took him into custody. The president was uninjured and was hustled away. Guests…