President Trump is fixated on his vanity projects, calling a nonprofit "treasonists" for suing to stop the construction of his White House ballroom. The spending on his projects comes as the American economy struggles due to Trump's war with Iran, which he says he will not apologize for. Aidan McLaughlin and Courtenay Brown join The Weekend to discuss.
President Trump is promoting new FBI crime statistics showing a decrease in violent crime for 2025, but federal data indicates violent crime has been declining since 2022. Aidan McLaughlin and Dave Aronberg join The Weekend to discuss the President’s celebration of the data ahead of the midterm elections.
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
At 21, he won a bronze medal at the inaugural World Taekwondo Championships. He went on to become a lynchpin of Washington’s LGBTQ+ community.
The state of the American Dream looks very different from inside a role-playing event deep in the woods of Poland.
Whether framed on an office wall, collecting dust in a box or still a distant dream, the college diploma is getting a hard reappraisal. Why it matters: College was once sold as a ticket to the American dream. But students today are taking a tougher look at the college tradeoff: burdensome debt and no guarantee of a dream career — or employment at all, as AI threatens the jobs the degrees were meant to unlock. "People didn't ask whether college mattered 20 years ago," says Courtney Brown, the vice president of impact and planning at Lumina Foundation. Now, "they're asking: Are today's students going to be prepared for tomorrow's jobs? Is it really helping them out?" - Confidence in higher education slipped among both parties and all…
Whether framed on an office wall, collecting dust in a box or still a distant dream, the college diploma is getting a hard reappraisal. Why it matters: College was once sold as a ticket to the American dream. But students today are taking a tougher look at the college tradeoff: burdensome debt and no guarantee of a dream career — or employment at all, as AI threatens the jobs the degrees were meant to unlock. "People didn't ask whether college mattered 20 years ago," says Courtney Brown, the vice president of impact and planning at Lumina Foundation. Now, "they're asking: Are today's students going to be prepared for tomorrow's jobs? Is it really helping them out?" - Confidence in higher education slipped among both parties and all…Open
Homero Calderón's detention by ICE spotlights the massive backlog in the U.S. immigration system.
Homero Calderón's detention by ICE spotlights the massive backlog in the U.S. immigration system.Open
The White House is seizing on new statistics showing that violent crime plummeted last year to boast of a “Trump effect.” But experts note crime began falling well before Trump returned to office.
Democratic Senate nominees in Nebraska, Idaho and South Dakota dropped out, clearing the way for independents. But Alani Bankhead in Montana declined to join them.