Energy Secretary Chris Wright met with executives from refining companies on Monday to explore ways the Trump administration could help them boost throughput volumes to help keep America’s gasoline and diesel market fully supplied. The meeting took place in Midland, Texas during an industry conference Wright was attending.
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Some Americans are saying “Get The Flock Out” to the widespread license plate cameras that record their movements and collect their data across the country.
Flock Safety surveillance cameras have become a focal point for American concerns over technology and privacy across the U.S., Axios reported. Communities such as Lago Vista, Texas, have explicitly condemned the cameras and voted to remove them, while other regions like Apache Junction, Arizona, still utilize the Flock systems to support law enforcement work.
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Shares of Moderna more than doubled Wednesday after the company and Merck announced positive results from a late-stage trial of an experimental cancer vaccine, though the companies have yet to release detailed data from those results.
The Phase 3 trial met its primary endpoint, according to the drugmakers, with the vaccine combination significantly improving the amount of time patients remained free of melanoma compared with Keytruda alone. But Moderna and Merck have not yet disclosed the specific effect size, survival times or full statistical results for the trial, leaving investors and outside researchers waiting for a clearer picture of how substantial the benefit actually was.
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An abused wife opens a credit card statement and discovers her abuser ran up $40,000 in her name. A soldier overseas finds out a predatory lender jacked his car-loan rate while he was deployed. A family buried under medical debt tries to negotiate a settlement with the help of a debt relief company. And a Washington lobby group spends millions making sure they can’t.
Meet the American Financial Services Association. AFSA says it’s fighting for consumers. Don’t buy it. AFSA is a creditor trade group that has gone to war against domestic violence survivors, military families, and working Americans drowning in debt.
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A major permitting bill that passed the House in December 2025 still hasn’t been passed by the Senate, with environmental and clean energy groups putting pressure on lawmakers to oppose the measure.
The Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act, which passed the House in December 2025, aims to fast-track energy and infrastructure permitting by reforming the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). It has not advanced beyond referral to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) with clean energy groups and environmental justice organizations objecting to the legislation, arguing it would cause major setbacks for the climate by adding more fossil fuel projects and lifting environmental protections.
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Disney’s ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, claiming the agency’s recent review into the company is part of a “retaliatory campaign.”
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the Trump administration’s “campaign against ABC has been building over the course of the current Administration’s second term.” The litigation comes after the FCC issued an order in April which directed Disney’s eight owned-and-operated television stations to file their broadcast license renewals early, NBC News reported.
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A man previously recognized as an “outstanding refugee” by the Minnesota Department of Human Services has been charged over an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme, according to news coverage.
Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Monday that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had charged two men for allegedly stealing more than $1.5 million from the state’s Medicaid program. Salman Ahmed Elmi was charged in the first case with 8 felony theft offenses linked to Reva Health allegedly billing over $1,000,000 in Medicaid-funded services that were either never provided or were ineligible for reimbursement, per the announcement.
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After pulling the plug on tungsten mining for over a decade, a massive discovery in Nevada could put America back in the game.
Developer 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) estimates its Railroad Valley Minerals project holds 1.78 million metric tons of tungsten, potentially the largest known deposit of the metal in the country, and more than five times the size of the next-largest U.S. resource, according to MINING.com. The rare metal is extraordinarily dense and heat-resistant, making it essential for armor-piercing munitions, cutting tools, semiconductors and aerospace and defense hardware.
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Major corporations are raking in billions from tariff refunds that are improving their balance sheets following a major Supreme Court decision, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Billions of dollars in federal tariff refunds flowed back into the balance sheets of companies such as Apple Inc., Nike, FedEx and General Motors Co., according to The Wall Street Journal. Some justices cautioned in February that the ruling could trigger a complex process for returning billions in collected duties while noting that President Donald Trump could still pursue tariffs using alternative statutory trade authorities, which he eventually did.
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A senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official is the new owner of a historic building overlooking the White House Complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
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The FBI secretly labeled journalists, senior Trump administration officials and members of Congress as conduits of Russian disinformation, newly declassified documents show.
An FBI operation codenamed “Round River” worked to paint derogatory information about former President Joe Biden, corruption and Ukraine supplied by confidential human sources as Russian disinformation. The so-called “Ukraine narrative” included information about the Biden family, Burisma, Hunter Biden and Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.
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U.S. higher education costs have surged over the past year, according to a Sallie Mae/Ipsos report out Wednesday.
The new report found that total college costs for families climbed to an estimated $34,019 during the 2025-26 academic year, marking a 10% rise from the year prior, Higher Ed Dive reported. Meanwhile, U.S. families had to pay out of pocket for 49% of those education costs.
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Newly installed Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is experiencing a bout of policy reality. If you preserve the status quo, you’ll be attacked. If you challenge the status quo, you’ll be attacked even more.
Warsh knew this going in. He is upending the status quo.
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More than one-third of U.S. counties have significant maternity care access gaps, according to a March of Dimes report released Tuesday.
The report found that 34.6% of U.S. counties are currently “maternity care deserts,” home to 2.4 million women of reproductive age and where 149,000 infants are born each year. Women who live in such “deserts”— many of which are in rural areas of the country — travel roughly three times farther to obtain labor and delivery services on average than those living in counties with broader maternity care access.
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A federal court shot down youth climate activists’ bid to revive a lawsuit targeting the Trump administration’s fossil fuel push.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday refused to rehear the lawsuit brought by twenty-two young climate activists, which initially challenged President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel agenda, leaving intact a panel decision that found the plaintiffs lacked standing. The youths in Lighthiser v. Trump argued that Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuel development would increase emissions and worsen climate-related harms in the future.
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Democrat-run New York City is dismissing Haitian workers after federal courts ordered the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate their Temporary Protected Status could continue.
The city was legally compelled to separate from affected Haitian city employees who lost their work authorization, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a Friday statement. The Department of Homeland Security’s termination of the workers’ Temporary Protected Status (TPS) took effect following a June Supreme Court decision in Mullin v. Doe which lifted the final legal barrier, The Associated Press reported.
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Some Virginia anti-data center activists and candidates are seemingly linked to a Marxist-Leninist party tied to the Chinese Communist Party, according to public records, social media and news reports.
Local Virginia political figures have appeared in connection with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a Marxist-Leninist organization that seeks to replace US capitalism with socialism. Data center opposition has intensified across Virginia over concerns about rising electricity demand and costs, water use, noise pollution and facilities being built near homes, according to the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. Those issues are especially pronounced in Northern Virginia, where the state’s data center industry is focused.
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As the world continues its search for power sources to feed an ever-expanding technological boom, China is racing to develop its own “artificial sun.”
China’s Institute of Plasma Physics completed and tested a 582-ton doughnut-shaped superconducting magnet in Hefei, on June 27, clearing a key hurdle in the country’s push to have fusion power by 2030, Forbes reported Tuesday. Manufactured entirely in China, the magnet is the largest ever built for a fusion reactor, highlighting the country’s diminishing reliance on the West for key technological developments.
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Thirteen conservative organizations urged the Senate to pass a bipartisan bill aimed at adding new protections to college sports, the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively learned Thursday.
The Protect College Sports Act (PCSA) would set new rules and ways to stabilize college sports and protect athletes. Groups such as the America First Policy Institute, the Bull Moose Project, American Values and the Family Business Coalition argued the bill must pass because it “protects” student athletes and institutions with conservative values.
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President Donald Trump’s White House construction blitz appears to have hit a major snag after a federal appeals court determined Friday that the effort was illegal.
Following the administration’s immediate appeal of a March 31 order by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon — an appointee of President George W. Bush — halting the project’s non-security-related work, the case was taken up by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which stayed Leon’s order.
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A committee chaired by Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress on Thursday morning.
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A major advocate for conservative education policies in Virginia is stepping back into the public arena with the launch of a new political action committee.
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Democratic Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney defeated Democratic Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar, securing another win for the Democrats’ anti-establishment wing.
McKinney is among several anti-establishment candidates who defeated incumbents backed by the party’s establishment in the 2026 election cycle. He defeated Thanedar in a 51.1% to 48.1% vote, results from The New York Times showed.
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Republican North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards announced Wednesday he would no longer seek re-election after investigators concluded he engaged in inappropriate conduct.
The House Ethics Committee recommended Monday that Edwards be censured after finding that he engaged in persistent unprofessional and inappropriate behavior toward two female staffers. Edwards announced he ended his re-election campaign and would complete his term.
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Wall Street executives abetted notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein by executing wire transfers to his victims and powerful friends while shielding him from law enforcement, according to a new Senate investigation.
Epstein’s “suspicious” bank transfers totaled $1 billion, the report alleges. JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America likely violated federal anti-money laundering laws for their wealthy client, the report states. Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden released the report detailing his staff’s four-year investigation on Tuesday afternoon. Investigators reviewed bank records, including suspicious activity reports housed at the U.S. Treasury.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against Montgomery County, Maryland, on Monday over a law prohibiting carrying firearms within 100 yards of multiple locations, including churches.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon posted a letter sent to the Washington, D.C.-area county Thursday, warning that the provisions barring firearms from thousands of locations — even those that granted permission for people to carry firearms — run afoul of the Second Amendment. In the complaint filed with the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, DOJ attorneys took aim at the provisions barring the carrying of firearms in many locations, notably churches, citing the Supreme Court’s decision in Wolford v. Lopez, which invalidated a similar law in Hawaii.
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Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul introduced a resolution Tuesday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress.
Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment at a July 29 Senate in response to questions ranging from the serious to the absurd. Though compelled to testify under a subpoena, Fauci stonewalled questions about whether he lied under oath about gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China the relationship between the National Institutes of Health and the intelligence community, and his history of championing high-risk virology research.
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A NASA astronaut cautioned that landing at the lunar south pole could leave an appendicitis-ridden crew member stranded there.
Victor Glover, who piloted the Artemis II mission around the moon in April 2026, expressed his concerns about future moon landing missions while speaking at the NASA Exploration Science Forum at Ames Research Center on July 21. Glover argued NASA should instead set its sights on the Moon’s equator because of the safety and operational risks of heading straight to the south pole, he said at the forum.
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California’s growing network of data centers is drawing increased scrutiny from lawmakers and local communities as concerns mount over rising electricity costs.
The state contains around 300 data centers which supports online banking, video conferencing, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, according to CBS News. This comes as California lawmakers consider bills to regulate data centers.
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The ex-wife of Republican Ohio Rep. Max Miller filed a restraining order against the congressman Thursday after accusing him of domestic violence.
Emily Moreno, the daughter of Republican Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, alleged that Miller physically grabbed one of her attorneys, Andrew Zashin, during a recent court hearing and also used a profane slur to insult Zashin’s fiancee as they left the courtroom during a separate hearing in May. The couple already have restraining orders filed against one another.
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Wisconsin Democrats lost a last-ditch effort to re-cast absentee ballots for voters after some of their candidates dropped out.
Dane County Circuit Judge David Conway ruled that voters cannot “spoil” an absentee ballot after it has been returned to their local election office, according to the court order filed Wednesday. Three Dane County plaintiffs, Joseph Alan Bins, Thomas Elert and Susan Roberts, alleged they could no longer vote for a new Democrat candidate.
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Tesla’s ongoing electricity usage prompted two energy agreements related to solar projects in Arizona and Texas.
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I have served alongside government civilian employees for more than 40 years in varying capacities and watched too many good people in uniform and the civil service choose to not speak out instead of putting the mission first.
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A canceled meeting between Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche might slow his confirmation process.
Cornyn and Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis demanded that the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally end the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund and rewrite language in an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) settlement that currently restricts Trump and his family from tax audits. Blanche’s scheduled meeting with Cornyn was abruptly called off Wednesday, endangering Cornyn’s support for advancing Blanche’s nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment Wednesday in response to questions from Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“On advice of counsel I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,” Fauci repeatedly said in response to Paul’s questions during the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.
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The age of artificial intelligence is fueling a generation of fragile, developmentally stunted and gender-dysphoric children, two analysts warned parents.
Classroom devices, smartphones and, increasingly, AI chatbots are stunting children’s cognitive and emotional development and driving a youth mental-health crisis, Michael Marinacio, executive director of the Center for Responsible Technology, and Nicole Runyon, a former child psychotherapist and parent coach, said during an online event hosted by parental rights group Moms for Liberty.
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China invested up to $33.5 billion within the last six months, a recent report found.
The record investment exposes China’s expanding economic influence across Africa through the Belt and Road Initiative, as Beijing pours into green projects in Africa, according to the China Belt and Road Initiative Investment report.
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Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear demanded Monday that Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell prove he is capable of serving or resign.
In a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Beshear requested that McConnell be transparent with the public after he missed 38 consecutive votes during his hospitalization and rehabilitation. The governor said he will ask Senate Majority Leader John Thune to investigate McConnell’s condition and possibly vote to expel him.
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Some U.S. medical schools may be continuing to promote certain diversity, equity and inclusion ideology in some form, according to emails and meeting notes obtained by Do No Harm.
The University of Iowa (UI) announced in March 2025 that it was shuttering its Division of Access, Opportunity, and Diversity following a directive from the Iowa Board of Regents. However, DNH obtained a copy of a March 26, 2025 email from a UI employee via a Freedom of Information Act request suggesting that the university’s Carver College of Medicine (CCOM)’s DEI office was “still fully up and running” under a different name despite the other diversity division closing, the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.
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The property developer who allegedly bribed former New York Mayor Eric Adams’ chief-of-staff has served as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official and hobnobbed with party bosses for years, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
Authorities arrested Andy Zhu, founder of New York-based real estate firm East Times Group (ETG), and three others including Adams’ former chief-of-staff, Frank Carone, on charges of fraud and money laundering in June, according to the indictment. Between October 2022 and September 2023, the property mogul allegedly bribed Carone and his brother with $120,000 to successfully pressure the New York City Department of Social Services to award Zhu’s Microtel Inn with a $6,825,000 “emergency shelter contract” in order to convert the Long Island City hotel into housing for “migrant asylum seekers.”
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Republican South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham said Monday she would object to a summer recess so the Senate could vote to pass the Safeguard America Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.
Graham said the SAVE America Act was “top priority” and she would remain in Washington, D.C., to see it passed. President Donald Trump and other Republican senators also called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to cancel the upcoming recess.
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For decades, Americans have been told that “the cloud” is something invisible — a magical place where photographs, emails, financial records and now artificial intelligence simply exist.
Unfortunately, the truth is considerably less romantic. The cloud has an address and that address is a neighborhood.
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The Department of Homeland Security used anti-China funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on security for FIFA World Cup matches and other events, Punchbowl News first reported Friday.
The OBBB Act had set aside $170 million in funding for initiatives aiming to combat potential national security threats from China’s illegal fishing operations globally, according to Punchbowl News. However, an anonymous senior congressional official and an unnamed Trump administration official told the outlet that DHS had instead disbursed most of that funding toward security for World Cup matches, America’s 250th anniversary festivities and other major U.S. sporting events.
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An attorney general running for Congress is fighting back after a Biden-appointed federal judge temporarily blocked his state’s law banning advertisements promoting abortion.
South Dakota’s law, which bans selling, dispensing, distributing or advertising articles or things for the purpose of obtaining an unlawful abortion, was enacted in March and took effect in July. Pro-abortion non-profit Mayday Health and a former Democratic state Senator sued Republican South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Gov. Larry Rhoden in May, claiming the law “violates the First Amendment,” according to a court complaint.
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The Trump administration is accusing a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company of conducting a “covert” plot to steal Anthropic’s data to boost its AI models.
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Republican Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA-07) introduced a bill Thursday that seeks to ban birth tourism in the U.S., the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
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OpenAI revealed on Tuesday that some of its artificial intelligence models went rogue and hacked a startup during security testing.
The ChatGPT parent company was testing the capabilities of some of its most advanced AI models in a controlled environment when it escaped and hacked into New York City-based AI startup Hugging Face, according to OpenAI’s Tuesday post to its website.
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The House passed a bill Monday to expand research into a largely untapped energy source amid growing demand for power driven by the expansion of artificial intelligence.
Sponsored by Republican North Carolina Rep. Pat Harrigan and Democratic Oregon Rep. Andrea Salinas, the bipartisan Next-Generation Geothermal Research and Development Act passed the House by voice vote Monday. The bill aims to expand federal research into advanced geothermal technology as lawmakers seek reliable, around-the-clock power sources to meet soaring electricity demand from artificial intelligence, data centers and domestic manufacturing.
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The Trump administration is deferring over $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as part of its ongoing healthcare fraud crackdown, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.
Kennedy said during a press conference that HHS is “not sending Medicaid or Medicare dollars out the door until we have confidence that they are being spent lawfully and appropriately.” The payment deferrals aim to advance the Trump administration’s ongoing “effort to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid and safeguard federal taxpayer dollars,” HHS said in a news release.
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced a nationwide investigation into fraud involving the H-1B visa and PERM programs. It’s a long overdue step toward promoting confidence in America’s employment-based immigration system.
But the H-1B visa system is only part of a much larger problem. Another visa category has operated for decades with less scrutiny and a far greater potential for fraud.
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