It’s the red wedding at CNN. The day of reckoning has arrived for the anti-Trump network as layoffs are planned to be carried out today. It’s not because CNN also lost a massive defamation suit last week, though that doesn’t help matters—it’s that no one watches this godforsaken propaganda outfit.  We ‘hate watch’ it because we’re paid to do it and keep tabs on what the opposition press is saying in all its idiocy. It’s wildly entertaining documenting the tantrums, but...

President Trump sat down Wednesday with Fox News host and ally Sean Hannity for his first one-on-one interview since returning to the White House for his second term. Trump has taken questions from reporters on each of his first three days in office, including the Hannity interview.  In his prime time with Hannity, the president fielded questions in the Oval Office on his 2024 election win, the natural disasters that have ravaged North Carolina and California, and President...

President Donald Trump has already inundated the country’s immigration system with enough changes to create immediate impacts along the border and across American cities. Thousands of migrants trying to gain entry in the United States to seek asylum using the Custom and Border Patrol’s mobile app — set up by the Biden administration to deter migrants from crossing illegally — had their appointments canceled, throwing into limbo many, including those who had been waiting for months. The Biden...

As part of his flurry of initial executive actions, President Trump released an executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” It is no mere public relations statement but a long and carefully drafted order that, if upheld and properly executed, will eliminate the blight of racially preferential treatment in the federal government; it also seeks boldly (and likely less successfully) to eliminate it from our culture at large by...

Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees Thursday as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience, according to people familiar with the matter. The layoffs come as CNN is rearranging its linear TV lineup and building out digital subscription products. The cuts will help CNN lower production costs and consolidate teams, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss nonpublic changes. Certain shows that are produced in New...

If all of President Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive orders on immigration and deportation go through, he will have succeeded in a radical overhaul of US law. That, however, is a mighty “if.” His agenda Monday was a mix of new and familiar policies: In the latter category, Trump revived a number of measures from his first administration, including forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for decisions in the US immigration cases, implementing “extreme vetting” of immigrants coming into the US...

Senate Democrats are returning to the confirmation wars of 2017 as they attempt to find their footing in a new Republican majority. Democrats are dragging out the confirmation process for several of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, even those with broad support. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was confirmed unanimously on Monday, but another bipartisan nominee, John Ratcliffe, was blocked from becoming CIA director the next day as Sen. Chris...

The Department of Government Efficiency was originally envisioned as a joint Elon Musk–Vivek Ramaswamy mission outside the federal government. Now it is all Elon—and he is inside. Musk’s vision for DOGE—along with his relentless, 24/7 online promotion of its goals—has quickly won out in President Trump’s first days in office, as Ramaswamy has decamped for his home state of Ohio to announce next week a planned bid for governor in 2026, and the DOGE operation has been...

US president Donald Trump has suggested that it was a mistake for the former president, Joe Biden, to not pardon himself before leaving office. In an interview with Fox News host, Sean Hannity, Trump said: This guy went around giving everybody pardons. And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon. And if you look at it, it all had to do with him.” It came as Trump told Hannity that he was given the option to pardon...