President Donald Trump announced on Friday afternoon that he is rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War, by making the Department of War its secondary title.
The executive order makes the Department of War a “secondary” title for the Department of Defense, and “secretary of war” a secondary title for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Internal memos obtained by Just the News show President Joe Biden’s aides believed at the beginning of his administration that he had an obligation to personally sign official presidential actions, including pardons, and chronicle how the former president later outsourced clemency decisions to then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
The memos were gathered as part of a sweeping review by the Trump White House into Biden’s use of autopen signatures for official business, an inquiry that now raises new questions about whether the former president actually attended four meetings late in his term dedicated to making clemency decisions.
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Foreign nationals who rely on government services will soon find it much more difficult to become permanent residents or even enter the U.S. under new guidance from the Trump administration.
Federal officials are being directed to more heavily scrutinize and weed out migrant applicants who are deemed likely to become dependent on welfare or other taxpayer-funded government services, otherwise known as a “public charge,” according to a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) memo obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The new directive marks the latest action by the Trump administration to tighten immigration enforcement.
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The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is cutting 15% of its staff and eliminating 100 positions as a result of President Donald Trump’s rescissions package that cut $500 million in annual funding for the network.
Trump’s rescissions package, which passed in July, slashed $9 billion in previously appropriated funding toward PBS, NPR and foreign aid, prompting the two public networks to make major staffing changes. The new staffing cuts were reportedly a last resort for PBS after it had already froze funding, paused pay raises and cut its budget by 21%, The New York Times first reported.
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Northwestern University president Michael Schill announced his resignation on Thursday after a several-years-long battle with both the Biden and Trump administrations over the university’s handling of antisemitism.
Schill recalled “serious and often painful challenges” the university faced under his leadership and mentioned ongoing tensions with the federal government in his resignation announcement, ultimately citing consultations with Northwestern’s Board of Trustees as the push behind his decision. Northwestern was investigated by the Biden administration and punished by the Trump administration to the tune of $790 million for its response to antisemitism.
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Axios Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s forthcoming report on the causes of autism will link the use of Tylenol during pregnancy to the neurodevelopmental disorder and suggest that a form of folate can treat the condition, according to a published report. Kennedy, who has promoted debunked theories about the disorder, said some of the report’s conclusions could be revealed this month. The mention of a Tylenol connection, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would revive a medical controversy over the use of Tylenol’s active ingredient acetaminophen during pregnancy. READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart The U.S. economy added 22,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, as the unemployment rate edged up to 4.3 percent—figures that come amid growing questions about the reliability of the government’s closely watched monthly employment data and criticism of the Federal Reserve for holding off on cutting interest rates despite a slowdown in hiring. Economists had expected employers to add 77,000 workers to payrolls, with estimates ranging from 59,000 to 110,000, according to Econoday’s survey. They correctly forecasted unemployment would rise to 4.3 percent. Private sector payrolls rose by 38,000. Government payrolls shrank by 16,000. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill A judge in Florida has dismissed a lawsuit brought by conservative cable channel Newsmax against Fox News, for now. Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in an opinion filed Friday that Newsmax’s suit, made earlier this week, was not filed properly, calling it a “shotgun pleading,” saying she has an “obligation to dismiss such pleadings.” Cannon, who President Trump has repeatedly praised over her rulings on cases involving his administration, noted Newsmax can file another complaint against Fox if it wishes to do so before Thursday. READ THE FULL STORY
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CBS News Tesla’s board of directors is asking shareholders to approve a new pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion in a decade, representing one of the richest compensation packages in corporate history. According to a regulatory filing published Friday, the electric car maker’s board wants to award Musk about 423 million shares, which today have a value of $143 billion, if the company hits certain profitability, production and market capitalization milestones. “Tesla does not currently have a long-term CEO performance award in place to retain and incentivize Elon to focus his energies on Tesla and lead us through this pivotal moment in our history. It’s time to change that,” board members said in a letter to shareholders. READ THE FULL STORY
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Oklo, a nuclear energy company, announced this week that it will make almost a $2 billion investment in Tennessee.
The company will be located at the Oak Ridge Heritage Center. This site will be 247 acres and will recycle used nuclear fuel. This facility will mark America’s first privately funded nuclear recycling-capable facility.
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As Tennessee prepares to deploy more than $813 million in federal broadband funding, lawmakers and citizens alike must take a hard look at what’s happening next door in Kentucky – and do everything in our power to not repeat it.
The collapse of KentuckyWired, the state’s $1.5 billion government-owned broadband network (GON), should be a flashing red light for anyone considering similar projects in Tennessee. This taxpayer-funded venture was sold to Kentuckians as a transformative step toward rural connectivity. Instead, it’s turned into a mess of delays, cost overruns, broken promises and – most tellingly – an underused network that’s failing to deliver results.
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“We must decouple and hard decouple starting tomorrow morning.”
That was former adviser to President Donald Trump Stephen K. Bannon, on the relationship between the United States and China in his remarks at the National Conservatism Conference in the District of Columbia on Thursday.
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For more than 40 years, Americans have spent innumerable tax dollars on education in big city schools – and got frighteningly bad results. This is a disaster for the lives of the young people in these schools, who enter adulthood without skills and knowledge to get good jobs and be good citizens.
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The Road docuseries redefines the music competition genre by immersing in the lives of 12 talented artists on the verge of stardom who perform for live audiences on the road.
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