On Monday, Trump answered the seven in ten Americans who don't want a data center near them by telling them they're choosing to be poor. Thirteen months earlier he had signed the executive order that hands those data centers federal land, skipped environmental reviews and taxpayer-backed loans.
On June 30, 2026, the EPA cleared trifludimoxazin — a PFAS weedkiller that produced thyroid tumors and liver damage in animal studies — for use on staple crops including corn, wheat, soybeans and apples. Three environmental groups sued, saying the agency never fully assessed the risk.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ordered 110 commercial driver training schools to stop operating over an English-proficiency rule, and moved to remove 160 more. His answer to the trucking shortage: 'We're not gonna have a problem.'
On October 3, 2025, ICE abruptly stopped paying hospitals, clinics and ambulance crews for treating the people it detains. Nearly a year later the bills are still unpaid — and 52 people died in ICE custody in Trump's first 500 days back in office.
Ronald Hayes agreed to talk about his murdered son because he was told the ad was about gun violence. It has been viewed more than 25 million times, as part of a $17 million campaign for Michael Whatley — and the claim at its center is not true.
Voters in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties will decide on November 3 whether to write an insider trading ban into their county charters. Residents gathered nearly double the signatures required. One provision would put their congressman's own stock trades in an annual county report.
In audio obtained by The Bulwark, Oklahoma's Stephanie Bice told Republican students at Oklahoma State that renaming Lake Ontario 'Lake America' isn't helping, that a longtime Republican executive told her they have 'Trump fatigue,' and that her bigger fear is Republicans not voting at all.
Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman gave $3 million to the super PAC boosting Susan Collins' reelection. He appears in the Epstein files. She voted to defeat the amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release them.
Asked on national television how Florida replaces the Haitian health care workers losing their legal status, the Republican nominee for governor answered with a high school internship program and a promise to supercharge adult education — with no number, no timeline and no cost for either. Nurses and their union say the state is losing trained caregivers it cannot get back.