New U.S. travel restrictions imposed over Ebola outbreak; fallout continues over DOJ's "anti-weaponization fund."
This major oil group is slamming Gov. Gavin Newsom for his routine chauffeured rides while he gives tips to commuters on where to get gas.
Ukraine has announced a major security buildup in the country’s north to deter Russia from launching another push toward Kyiv via the territory of neighboring Belarus.
The Supreme Court’s term is winding down after months of oral arguments in hotly contested cases, during a year when President Donald Trump and the midterm elections loom large over some of the most closely watched cases. The high court heard arguments in 58 cases from October 2025 through April 2026, and the justices are […]
With President Donald Trump’s “revenge tour” against Republicans complete, he has successfully ousted several congressional Republicans — with one more possibility on the way — but by doing so he has severely imperiled his critical majority in the U.S. Senate.“One understated reality of what Trump has done: He basically just nuked his Senate majority for the next six months,” writes political journalist Isaac Saul. Saul explains that U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who recently lost his primary to a Trump-endorsed MAGA rival, “now has no reason to play ball.” Cassidy this week scorched two key items on President Trump’s agenda: his $1.8 billion victimization and weaponization fund, and the $1 billion for security enhancements for his ballroom.“People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accountability,” Cassidy wrote on Wednesday in a rare rebuke from a sitting GOP lawmaker. “This is adding to our national debt. If there needs to be a settlement, the administration should bring it to Congress to decide.” Earlier this week, Cassidy said, “I just know where I am on the ballroom.”He blasted the administration for what he said was not getting bids, or doing the architectural, engineering, environmental, or historic work.“And so they don’t know how much money they should ask for, but they picked a number,” he said. “That’s not the way to run the government,” Cassidy added. “So they just want a pot of money, and I think they need to give us more detail.”Then there’s U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who lost an endorsement battle to his MAGA rival — whom Trump endorsed on Tuesday, one week before the primary runoff.Saul notes that Cornyn “will have to navigate the runoff, but win or lose next Tuesday he comes out of that doing whatever he wants.”He also points to U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) who “is retiring and already acting like an independent.” And U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME), who “have long been willing to break with POTUS.”“All the sudden,” Saul explains, “a 53-47 Senate majority is a 48-47 majority with five live swing votes.”As Punchbowl News reported on Thursday, Senate Republicans are “preparing to buck President Donald Trump on two of his long-running obsessions: the White House ballroom project and the ‘weaponization’ of federal agencies against his allies.”Those are the two issues Cassidy has been railing against.
Breaking down Tuesday's primaries as another Republican who broke with Trump falters; U.S. indicts Raúl Castro.
MAGA voters are becoming more and more disillusioned with the president’s performance.“Matt from Las Vegas” tore into Donald Trump during a call-in segment on Real America’s Voice Tuesday, furious with the White House about how it has handled the Iran war—and the narrative the administration has packaged and sold to its voter base in the interim.“If we so decimated Iran’s Navy and Air Force, how come we can’t get a ship through the Strait of Hormuz?” asked the caller. “Whose intelligence are they insulting?“If they don’t have a Navy, how can they stop ships? What are they using to stop ships and redirect ships?” the caller continued. “I’m being lied to by my own government and, I hate to say, Mr. Trump. And I love Donald Trump. But you know, all this—they’re annihalating—they’re full of shit.”“Iran won this round, as far as I’m concerned,” he added.The cost of oil and gas has gone through the roof since the war began, a fact that has only been aggravated by Tehran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for the region’s trade. The average cost of gas nationwide is $4.53 per gallon, with large swaths of the U.S. pushing $5 a gallon, according to the AAA’s price tracker. That’s about 50 percent higher than prices were before the war started. In some areas of California, such as Mono County, fuel costs are above $7 per gallon.The situation has become so dire that Trump’s Cabinet members have stopped speculating as to when prices will actually go back down. Analysts, meanwhile, have projected that gas and oil costs will likely continue to climb—potentially even after the midterms.The strait has largely remained closed, despite several attempts to reopen the trade point amid rocky peace negotiations.The war itself—which has so far lasted roughly 12 weeks—is costing the U.S. about $1 billion per day, according to early estimates by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Matt from Las Vegas further claimed that Iran had Trump “by the short hairs” over the economic disruption, and had put the White House in a position in which it had to beg China for help.“And I kind of think that we’re a paper tiger, just like Russia,” the caller concluded.The show host, Eric Bolling, pushed back, claiming that Iran’s “mosquito boats” and underwater mining operation were sufficient to keep the area on lockdown.“We didn’t lose, they got crushed, they’re clearly the losers on this,” Bolling said desperately.
Local media out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, are reporting that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and federal officials including HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, will be making an announcement about federal indictments for fraud as an outcome of ongoing investigations throughout the state. Minnesota – Several top U.S. officials, including HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy […] The post AAG Todd Blanche Expected to Make Major Announcement About Fraud Accountability from Minneapolis Tomorrow appeared first on The Last Refuge.
Five-term Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday. Rabb secured the Democratic nomination for the seat held by […]