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As President Donald Trump triumphantly returned to the White House thanks in part to a tsunami of campaign cash from oligarchs and corporate interests, democracy defenders on Tuesday marked the 15th anniversary of the U. S. Supreme Court ruling that unleashed such spending by urging action to overturn the decision. In a nation where corporations and moneyed interests already wielded disproportionate power and influence over elections, Citizens United v.

President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 in Washington D. C. brought the world’s wealthiest people together to celebrate his return to the presidency, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, who have a combined net worth of nearly $900 billion, according to Forbes. As Trump was inaugurated, longtime Trump supporter Harold Hamm—known for fracking and considered “America’s richest oil man” with over $18.5 billion in wealth running Continental Resources— hosted an exclusive inauguration watch party.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $500 billion joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank, MGX and Oracle to build new datacenters to power the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) – in an early signal that his Administration would embrace the technology. The plans, which predate the Trump Administration and involve no U.

Danielle Hegseth, Pete Hegseth's sister-in-law, sent an affidavit that at least 15 Senators reviewed, detailing more instances of his alcohol "problems" and physical abuse to his second wife, Samantha. NBC News reports: in law submitted the affidavit in response to a Jan. 18 letter from Sen. Jack Reed, D-R. I., seeking “a statement attesting to your personal knowledge about Mr.

One of the most prominent Trump-supporting groups, the police union, has now blasted Donald Trump for issuing this blanket pardon of 1500 people convicted of the seditious attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The largest police union in the US, which endorsed Donald Trump during his campaign, said Trump’s decision to pardon more than 1,500 people convicted over the January 6 insurrection “sends a dangerous message”, in a statement on Tuesday. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which endorsed Trump in September 2024, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) warned that the blanket clemency offered to rioters – including those convicted of violent offenses, and several leaders of the attack on the Capitol – threatened Americans’ safety. “The IACP and FOP are deeply discouraged by the recent pardons and commutations granted by both the Biden and Trump administrations to individuals convicted of killing or assaulting law enforcement officers.

Nobody expected anything special when the squadron of Navy F/A-18 fighter jets headed out for routine aerial maneuvers off of the coast of Virginia Beach one day in 2013. The F/A-18s, a Naval workhorse, owned the local air space that day—but only until they didn’t. All at once, the jets’ radar picked up a cluster of half a dozen objects flying along with them, moving erratically—and entirely acrobatically.