Rips appear in Reflecting Pool's new sealant after algae turn water green

Pritzker Adds $800 Million a Year in New Taxes to Already High-Tax Illinois

The governor of Illinois, Democrat J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire Hyatt hotel heir who is a possible 2028 presidential candidate, is facing sharp criticism after signing into law a state budget that adds $800 million a year in new taxes to a state already in the worst third of the 50 states when it comes to imposing tax burdens. The post Pritzker Adds $800 Million a Year in New Taxes to Already High-Tax Illinois appeared first on .

President Trump Has a Pool Problem. The Nation Has Thoughts.

People are flocking to see the algae-streaked reflecting pool on the National Mall and are eager to weigh in on the solution.

Mexico vs South Korea match spurs new drinking game for World Cup fans

Mexico versus South Korea is slated to be one of the most exciting World Cup matches of the week as the victor of the clash wins Group A. Both countries won their World Cup openers, with Mexico dominating South Africa and South Korea taking down Czechia. A win for either squad will guarantee a spot...

Fox Business Host Turns the Tables Fast After Ro Khanna Tries to Attack the SAVE America Act

Reflecting Pool contract balloons up to $14.7M 

The cost of a contract for work on the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool has ballooned further — now costing taxpayers a total of $14.7 million — according to federal records. The federal contract with Atlantic Industrial Coatings is up more than $1.5 million from $13.1 million a month ago, a federal database showed as of Thursday.…

Newsom says he teared up at Obama library opening, rips DOJ investigation

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he “literally started tearing up” when he toured former President Barack Obama‘s library in Chicago as part of its exclusive grand opening ceremony on Thursday. Newsom attended the invite-only ceremony with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Together, they extolled the Obama Presidential Center. “Everybody feels that spirit and that pride […]

JD Vance's own memoir accidentally exposes his 'corrupted' turn: analysis

A Slate reviewer delivered a scathing verdict on Vice President JD Vance's new memoir, arguing the book accidentally revealed how much politics has "corrupted" its author."Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith" is Vance's first book since "Hillbilly Elegy" and was released Tuesday in what many read as a soft launch for a 2028 run. In a review published Thursday, Molly Olmstead wrote that the book is essentially two books crammed into one. For its first 177 pages, she wrote, it's a "thoughtful" meditation on trauma, fatherhood, and Vance's winding path from evangelical Christianity to atheism to Catholicism.Then, Olmstead argued, it falls apart. "From that point on, Communion, which came out on Tuesday, is a stiff and unimaginative political memoir. It deploys an eye-roll-worthy staff of straw men as it defends Trump’s policies," she wrote.The break comes right after Vance nods to his "evolution from Trump critic to Trump supporter" and pivots to defending the administration. Olmstead traced the divide to timing, noting much of the thoughtful first half appears to predate Vance's 2022 Senate run, with one passage lifted almost verbatim from a 2020 essay. She flagged a jarring later passage about Vance stockpiling ammunition over the "China virus" as the moment the tone sours. The book, she concluded, is a window into his devolution."The tragedy of Vance’s new book is that this split reminds you of who he used to be. It’s not only that he squandered a decent beginning, but that he revealed how far he has fallen from the thoughtful young man who once had something original to say," she wrote.She found the ending unnerving, citing Vance's wish to return America to a "Western Christian civilization" given he "just may be our future president."Olmstead's critique comes after The Wall Street Journal's Barton Swaim ripped the book for "egregious sloppiness," and readers buried it in one-star Goodreads reviews within hours.She concluded the book offers a "window into just how much the thoughtful boy in Hillbilly Elegy allowed himself to be corrupted by politics."

Why did the newly refurbished Reflecting Pool turn green? The quiz knows

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