Politics

“President Trump will appoint himself chairman of the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he said Friday,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Said Trump: “The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest stars on its stage from all across our nation. We

A U.S. Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis called the incursion by Elon Musk’s DOGE staff “the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced,” Wired reports. Bloomberg: “The stark warning was delivered to the Treasury Department in a weekly intelligence

“Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company owned by a Russian national who also holds U.S. citizenship and has produced programs promoting ‘deep state’ conspiracy theories and anti-Western views advanced by the Kremlin,” the

“President Trump said he revoked former President Joe Biden’s security clearance and barred him from receiving intelligence briefings, stating there was no need for the Democrat to have continued access to government secrets,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Biden set this precedent when he

“Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries quietly met with more than 150 Silicon Valley-based donors last week in California — an early step in Democrats’ efforts to repair relationships with a once-deep blue constituency,” Politico reports.