Chaos engulfs Education Dept over Trump’s ‘cartoon’ student loans plan: reportThe Trump administration’s rush to spin off the Education Department’s student loan office has thrown the agency into chaos, with one official involved in the planning dismissing the effort as “basically just a cartoon,” The Washington Sun reported Thursday. Current and former officials told The Sun the department is taking a chaotic approach that is…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →Educationstudent loans overhaul
Trump operatives caught torching his ‘Golden Goose’ in misleading attack mailer: reportPresident Donald Trump's own political operation is quietly attacking Democrats over an industry the president has spent months hyping as a windfall. No Going Back PAC, an offshoot of Trump's super PAC MAGA Inc ., sent out a mailer targeting Jamie Ager, the Democrat running in North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, for being "open to large AI data…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →TechnologyGovernmentnorth carolina congressional election
Trump narrowly avoids judge's wrath in 'certainly troubling' case against ex-CIA bossPresident Donald Trump appears to have narrowly avoided a judge's wrath in a lawsuit that he filed against a former CIA boss who investigated the president's ties to Russia. Former CIA Director John Brennan sued Trump and several high-ranking administration officials in July, arguing that the administration has vindictively prosecuted him for allegedly…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →JusticeTechnology
'Sort of a pyramid scheme': Trump's new hire sheepishly explains decade-long gap in resumeWhite House press secretary Katie Zacharia spent part of a decade-long gap in her résumé selling nutrition shakes for a fitness company that claims to have no record of her. The newly installed press secretary's LinkedIn shows a gap in employment between 2013 and late 2023, but WIRED reported that a deleted version of her profile, found in a leak…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →FoodSecurity
Critics blown away by 'levels of internal chaos' at White House as Trump ponders shake-upA report that Donald Trump is shopping around for a new White House chief of staff just before the midterm election is baffling and amusing some of his critics. On Thursday morning, Politico Playbook reported that current Chief of Staff Susie Wiles may be on her way out the door with the president calling allies and floating the names of replacements,…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →TechnologyGovernment
MAGA Senate nominee rocked on live TV as fed-up moderator torches him on election 'lies'A Colorado debate moderator repeatedly pressed Republican Senate nominee Mark Baisley over his past embrace of 2020 election conspiracy theories, at one point asking how voters could trust him to tell the truth about anything. 9NEWS anchor Kyle Clark confronted Baisley, a state senator challenging Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper, during Wednesday’s…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →GovernmentEducation
Why the GOP's voter fraud messaging may backfireWhy the GOP’s voter fraud messaging may backfire A sticker on a lamppost warns of voter fraud on Nov. 7, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Christopher Miller , University of Richmond With Election Day 2026 just weeks away and control of Congress hanging in the balance, the results will almost certainly hinge on voter turnout, just as…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →JusticeGovernment
Trump aide’s firm quietly pocketed millions from crypto giant his law now governs: WSJA Trump White House crypto adviser's family business quietly collected millions from a company with everything riding on the law he was shepherding. Bo Hines , who led the Trump administration's push for the Genius Act stablecoin law, kept a one-third stake in his consulting firm Nxum while Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, steered millions…Raw Story3d agoWhole story →TechnologyGovernmentcrypto regulation scandal
