Trump: Fed, Chairman Powell 'Choking Out' Housing Market
President Donald Trump on Friday accused the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell, of "choking out the housing market" with high interest rates and making it too difficult for Americans, particularly young adults, to buy homes.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=68E46A67-1B21-4F13-BFE7-27BA74E04715
House Republicans Address Epstein Transparency Demands
House Republicans were grasping late Thursday to formulate a response to the Trump administration's handling of records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, ultimately putting forward a resolution that carries no legal weight but nodded to the growing demand for...https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=BFE22BEF-9123-4488-8DCD-2A0E3F8F0490
Trump Threatens to Sue WSJ, Murdoch Over Story on Alleged 2003 Letter to Epstein
President Donald Trump threatened to sue The Wall Street Journal and owner Rupert Murdoch Thursday over a story about an off-color letter he allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=761F58BC-131D-4C63-A307-E3AD93C63A19
Sen. Cotton Presses DoD on China Ties at Microsoft
A U.S. senator is asking the Pentagon for more information on Microsoft's reported use of Chinese engineers in maintaining military cloud computing systems, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters. Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican who chairs the chamber's...https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=824E5A80-6D1A-49D8-8E0E-6AA1729F867C
Judge Weighs Putting New Block on Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order
A federal judge on Friday could deal another blow to President Donald Trump's attempts to limit birthright citizenship, even though a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month made it more difficult for lower courts to block White House directives.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=71043E64-30FD-4749-A5A8-CBBD86BA728C
House Gives Final Approval to Trump's $9 Billion Cut to Public Broadcasting and Foreign Aid
The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday. The vote marked the first time in decades that a president has successfully submitted such a rescissions request...https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=396634E4-9F94-4543-B8EA-625BE0CE1DAD
La. Gov. Landry: Camp Beauregard Name Returns to Guard Center
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry directed the Louisiana National Guard on Monday to restore "Camp Beauregard" as the name of its training center in Pineville.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=F4233EA3-4428-4C27-BE18-8BEACCC59CEA
Stone to Newsmax: Trump Cut Ties With Epstein Before Sex Charges
Roger Stone, a longtime ally and former adviser to President Donald Trump, told Newsmax on Thursday that President Donald Trump severed ties with Jeffrey Epstein well before the financier was exposed and convicted of sex crimes in Florida.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=D98015E9-1EE3-4898-921F-D8C7933B9AF9
Bo Dietl to Newsmax: Officers Will Leave NYPD if Mamdani Wins
Police officers are leaving the New York Police Department in record numbers, and union officials say the situation could get worse if self-labeled democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election, said retired NYPD detective Bo Dietl.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=4068FB11-DC27-4FB3-BE31-8EC3D6D0BD41
House Poised to OK Trump's $9B Cut to Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid
The House was expected late Thursday to approve President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid as Republicans target institutions and programs they view as bloated or out of step with their agenda.The White House had...https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=1C686798-41CD-4B09-AA64-5E032BA958EF
State Dept Spox Bruce to Newsmax: Staff Reductions Make Agency More Efficient
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told Newsmax on Thursday that recent reductions in force at the agency will not hamper the Trump administration's efforts to address its priorities, as some mainstream media outlets have suggested.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=2241256A-27C6-41B7-A48B-E6D8AA73B717
Trump Orders Release of Epstein Case Grand Jury Transcripts
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he had asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case, subject to court approval.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=11860451-46A3-415D-8F0C-F0FF71DA8208
Gov. DeSantis to Newsmax: Migrants Can Choose to Self-Deport From Alligator Alcatraz
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the state's controversial migrant detention site in the Everglades on Newsmax, saying illegal immigrants housed at the facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" are offered the chance to return to their home countries at no personal cost.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=3EB0697B-70B8-4754-B2C9-7B6BA29886A1
WH Scoffs at NPR CEO's Claim That Funding Cut Would Risk Public Safety
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday brushed off National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher's assertion that slashing federal funding to the network would potentially be a "risk to the public safety of the country."https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=AFA1D7D2-6C92-4CDB-9062-8B1B3D441E56
Florida High Court Upholds DeSantis-Backed Congressional Map
Florida's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state's congressional map pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, delivering a victory to Republicans, Politico reported.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=494ADB72-93EB-4CCA-A436-F596613ED232
Stephen Colbert's Late-Night Show on CBS to End in May 2026
"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on CBS will end in May 2026 after the upcoming broadcast season, the network said on Thursday.The show is ending and Colbert will not be replaced, CBS executives said."This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in...https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=3036F3CE-1DDA-4299-A602-90785C4271F7
Trump Nominates 2 Lawyers to Seal GOP Control of Labor Board
board has lacked a quorum of three members and has been unable to rule in hundreds of pending cases since Trump in January fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox, an appointee of Democrat President Joe Biden.It was the first time since the board was created in 1935 that a member...https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=6E403369-923A-4523-BC2F-8F23EE1B0903
What's in GOP Bill Cutting $9B From Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid
The Republican-led Congress is testing the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts this week by aiming to pass President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion in public broadcasting and foreign-aid spending.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=DA86F65E-DA9F-4C3E-8C4F-87196C28CF25
N.Y. Halts Offshore Wind Transmission Plan Amid Federal Uncertainty
The New York State Public Service Commission has terminated its offshore wind transmission planning process due to stalled federal permitting, to protect state ratepayers from premature infrastructure costs, it said on Thursday.https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=BBCEA97E-1300-48C9-8983-6B0DFD70E528
Powell Responds to White House on Fed Headquarters Renovation
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday responded to a Trump administration official's demands for information about cost overruns for a renovation project at the central bank's Washington headquarters campus, saying the project was large in scope and involved a...https://www.newsmax.com/cmspages/getfile.aspx?guid=4D43132F-8568-4FCD-AD04-581FF88F750E