DENIAL: Making climate change denial a part of policy,  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced yesterday that the EPA is repealing the 2009 determination that planet-warming gases including carbon dioxide are a threat to public health.   The formal announcement was made yesterday …

HUNGER GAMES: President Trump yesterday openly disagreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on whether there is starvation in Gaza.  Trump said that he’d seen pictures of children on television and that they “look very hungry” and “we have to get the …

TRADE TRUCE: The Trump administration and the European Union have reached a deal that appears to divert a trade war between the US and the 27-nation economic bloc that is this country’s biggest source of imports.   The deal sets a 15 percent …

MONEY, POLITICS, AND JOURNALISM: The federal Communications Commission yesterday approved the merger of entertainment companies Paramount and Skydance in a decision that appears to have been contingent on President Trump’s personal settlement of his lawsuit against CBS News and 60 Minutes, which …

THE EPSTEIN GAME: Attorney General Pam Bondi informed president Trump that he is mentioned in the investigative files regarding sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but in what context is unknown, The NY Times reports.   The story comes on yet another day in …

TREASON, HE SAID:  In the Oval Office, President Trump diverted reporters’ questions way from the Jeffrey Epstein matter accusing former President Barack Obama of attempting a coup, committing treason and that, “It’s time to go after people.”   Trump dismissed the Epstein …

JOURNALING: With the President and his staff unable to keep drawing attention to the issue they want everyone to ignore, The White House is banning Wall Street Journal reporters from traveling with Trump during his upcoming trip to Scotland in retaliation over the …

SHE’S NOT HERE FOR YOU: The Jeffrey Epstein case, like one of those horror movie monsters, just won’t die. Members of both political parties yesterday pushed for more information from the Justice Department about the investigation that brought Epstein’s indictment in …

TRUMP SUES HIS CHEERLEADER: President Trump yesterday sued the Wall Street Journal for its reporting on a birthday greeting that the newspaper  says Trump wrote to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday. The suit claims that The Journal falsely claimed President …

THE DONALD LETTER:  Amidst political pressure for the Department of Justice to release files about the late Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Street Journal has reported on a collection of birthday letters given to the accused sex trafficker on his 50th birthday, including …