Trial for man charged with allegedly trying to assassinate Trump continues as FBI agent testifies cluttered SUV containing phones, notes about Mexico flight and a .45-caliber cartridge casing. ... Read full Story
Former Sen. Joe Manchin's new book details heated conflicts with former President Joe Biden and describes having a better relationship with President Donald Trump than former President Barack Obama. ... Read full Story
Senate Majority Leader John Thune will use parliamentary tactics to establish a new precedent for confirming batches of lower-level Trump nominees this Wednesday. ... Read full Story
President Trump is ramping up his attacks on the left in the wake of last week’s killing of Charlie Kirk, providing fuel to the White House’s efforts to clamp down on left-leaning groups and institutions. Trump has at nearly every turn since Kirk’s assassination argued the problem in the country stems from left-wing groups. The strategy... ... Read full Story
The Pentagon on Monday unveiled new grooming standards, which now require service members “to be clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance.” Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement Monday that following “a rapid force-wide review of military standards” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “recently directed the Services to implement... ... Read full Story
The White House is requesting $58 million in additional security funding for the executive and judicial branches following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. ... Read full Story
Spencer Cox led National Governors Association effort to reduce political polarization before Charlie Kirk's campus murder brought renewed focus to civility campaign. ... Read full Story
Americans largely agree political violence is never justified, but a new poll shows liberals are more likely than conservatives to say violence can be warranted in order to achieve political goals. In the YouGov survey conducted in the immediate aftermath of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 72 percent of Americans said violence... ... Read full Story
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tapped five new members to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) outside vaccine advisory panel, just days ahead of its next meeting. Kennedy in May fired every member of the panel and handpicked their replacements, most of whom have criticized coronavirus vaccines and... ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum establishing the Memphis, Tennessee, Safe Task Force, involving federal agencies like the FBI, National Guard and Drug Enforcement Administration. ... Read full Story
President Trump on Monday established the Memphis Safe Task Force in order to replicate in the Tennessee city the recent federal law enforcement crackdown in Washington, D.C. “This task force will be a replica of our extraordinary successful efforts here and you’ll see it’s a lot of the same thing,” Trump said about D.C., flanked... ... Read full Story
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, developed a "leftist ideology" despite his conservative family background in Washington County. ... Read full Story
President Trump said Monday the U.S. had carried out another military strike targeting what he said were "confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela" in international waters, further escalating his war on drug traffickers. "This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in... ... Read full Story
The U.S. military struck drug trafficking cartels from Venezuela while they transported narcotics in international waters, eliminating 3 confirmed terrorists, President Trump said. ... Read full Story
Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned Charlie Kirk's assassination in a video warning about rising political violence that he fears is threatening democratic participation in politics. ... Read full Story
The Trump administration is evaluating whether to grant aid to American farmers this fall, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday. "We are working with our colleagues in Congress and closely monitoring markets daily to evaluate the amount of additional assistance that might be needed this fall," Rollins said at a meeting of the National Association... ... Read full Story
“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.