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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stumbled and deflected when asked a simple, direct question about tariffs at a congressional hearing o...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is still advocating for the creation of a disease registry that tracks people diagnosed with autism.D...

Pete Hegseth cancelled military aid flights to Ukraine just a week into Trump’s second term without him even knowing, according to Reuters....

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Da...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month—a time when the nation is supposed to recommit to the mental health and well-being of millions struggli...

President Donald Trump is angry at longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove. That’s because Rove delivered Trump a stern warning on Fox News about...

“Abundance for me but not for thee” seems to be Donald Trump’s new motto.The president’s argument that children should just have less dolls...

President Donald Trump just gave a completely incoherent explanation for his impromptu plan to reopen Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay.“...

President Donald Trump has claimed he’s not paying attention to who buys his cryptocurrency coin—but companies are openly trying to use it t...

Israel has approved plans to completely seize the Gaza strip and install soldiers there indefinitely. This is yet another clear and obvious...

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene believes that Republicans in Congress are on track to lose the midterms—because they’re not ad...

The former leader of the Proud Boys claimed that he spoke with Donald Trump on Saturday night, and that the president “loves” him.Enrique Ta...

New York Republican Representative Mike Lawler had yet another chaotic town hall on Sunday in which multiple disgruntled constituents of his...

President Trump may have gotten his half-brained idea to reopen and expand the infamous Alcatraz prison from a PBS documentary that aired on...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 5 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Da...

As Republicans in Congress struggle to write a massive bill that would slash government spending and extend a bevy of tax cuts from Presiden...

President Trump has recently been erupting at Fox News over its new poll finding him with 55 percent disapproval. Trump described Fox’s poll...

In early March, the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service released its annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings, bas...

He has now said it right out in the open—not once but twice. In two major interviews, President Donald Trump openly declared that he has the...

The Trump administration did not rule out that its pitch to replace the nation’s space launch system could massively benefit Elon Musk.In an...

Alabama’s “dumbest” senator appears to be running an especially stupid con at the moment.In a gambit for Alabama’s governorship, Senator Tom...

Donald Trump has just sent Republicans in Congress a budget proposal that cuts nearly everything, and if they don’t like it, he says he’ll w...

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller may be up next for a new position in Donald Trump’s administration: Axios reported Friday t...

Senator John Fetterman isn’t in good shape—and could be a danger to himself and those around him. New York magazine reports that Fetterman,...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a formerly progressive Democrat who has decidedly shifted right in recent years, delivered a hardline—a...