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The historian running the memorial to the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp has spoken out against tech billionaire Elon Musk, in an interview this week with The Times of London.

Jens-Christian Wagner, who runs the memorial to the notorious camp near Weimar that held hundreds of thousands of Jewish, Communist, Roma, and other political prisoners of the Nazis, told The Times, “One can only say to [Musk], ‘Take a history book and withdraw for three days, read the history book and please be quiet with the poison he’s spreading’.”

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted her colleagues — including her own party — who she said brazenly engage in insider trading and undermine trust in government.

Ocasio-Cortez joined "The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart" on Thursday to call out her fellow lawmakers on both sides for engaging in the illegal practice.

CNN's chief fact-checker had his work cut out for him Friday following President Donald Trump's visit to North Carolina and California as he tours areas devastated by natural disasters.

In the Los Angeles area, fires have scorched about 45 square miles. At least 28 people have died. Meanwhile, Hurricane Helene's damage in North Carolina has been estimated at $59.6 billion. At least 104 people died.

Edward Martin, the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, is asking a federal judge to eliminate all restrictions on the previously incarcerated leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers paramilitary from visiting the capital.

Stewart Rhodes and several other Oath Keepers leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States for their role in the Jan. 6 attack. After Trump commuted their sentences in his sweeping Jan. 6 pardon order, a federal judge issued an amended supervised release order, which limits them from visiting D.C. in general without court permission.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday blasted Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee to again lead the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, over his involvement in Project 2025 and called on their colleagues to reject his nomination.

Vought wrote the chapter on the executive office of the president in the Heritage Foundation’s nearly 900-page conservative blueprint, which seeks to dramatically reshape the federal government and drew much attention throughout Trump’s presidential campaign as Democrats sought to tie the document to him.

A Trump supporter tried to fact-check CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on the Trump administration's revocation of the security detail for former National Institutes of Health director Dr. Anthony Fauci — and was promptly set straight.

The decision to terminate protection for Fauci, who has become a popular target of hate from the right over various conspiracy theories about how he handled public policy advice around the COVID-19 pandemic, came after Trump also revoked details for his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his former National Security Adviser John Bolton, both of whom have been critical of his fitness to serve since leaving his employ.

A two-time loser has some Democrats freaking out that plans for a third run for a congressional seat will bury the party’s chances in Michigan, according to a report.

Carl Marlinga, a former judge who is in his 70s, is planning to run against sitting Rep. John James (R-MI), two people who were part of the private conversation told Politico.

Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute's Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, flattened President Donald Trump this week for his mass pardons of violent January 6th protesters who ransacked the United States Capitol four years ago.

Writing at The Unpopulist, Olson outlined the dangerous precedent that has been set by a president pardoning violent criminals who attacked a coequal branch of government on his behalf.

President Donald Trump's phone call with the Prime Minister of Denmark about his ongoing obsession with acquiring Greenland has sent Danish officials into a state of alarm, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

The call with Mette Frederiksen took place last week, according to the report. "Frederiksen said she had emphasized that the vast Arctic island — an autonomous part of the kingdom of Denmark — was not for sale, while noting America’s 'big interest' in it" — but according to other European officials privy to the call, Trump did not care for her answer and "had been aggressive and confrontational following the Danish prime minister’s comments that the island was not for sale, despite her offer of more co-operation on military bases and mineral exploitation."

Following a torrent of executive orders issued in his first few days back in the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump added another one to the list Thursday, this time aimed at promoting U.S. leadership in cryptocurrency — an industry he now holds a considerable stake in.

Co-president of the watchdog group Public Citizen, Robert Weissman, decried the move, writing in a statement Thursday that "Trump is pushing crypto because he's in on the racket."

During a call-in appearance on CNN, former DC Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone repeatedly distressed host Pamela Brown by peppering his attack on Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 rioters with obscenities the cable network was not prepared to bleep out.

After appearing twice on MSNBC earlier in the day to address Trump's decision to pardon close to 1,500 rioters regardless of whether they physically attacked Capitol cops as they did him, which led to a heart attack and his subsequent retirement, Fanone let loose on CNN.

President Donald Trump and his allies have been pleased with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he axed fact checkers at Facebook and took a front-row seat at Trump's inauguration.

However, Rolling Stone reports that Trump and his allies aren't finished making Zuckerberg prove his loyalty to the MAGA cause and are planning to make him undergo more rituals to demonstrate his fealty.

Appearing on MSNBC as Donald Trump was busy holding a press conference in North Carolina to talk about 4-month-old Hurricane Helene damage, a Democratic lawmaker expressed his disgust that the president made the appearance all about himself.

As Trump spoke and introduced pre-selected locals from Swannanoa, North Carolina who joined him in criticizing President Joe Biden and FEMA for the pace of ongoing recovery efforts, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) offered a counterpoint to host Andrea Mitchell.