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A Nobel Prize-winning economist argued that the United States may not see the damage of President Donald Trump's economic policies until it's too late.

Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work on trade theory, argued in a new Substack essay that the financial markets have not yet responded to Trump's economic policies because they act in "complacency until the last possible moment." Markets seldom price in the "huge, disruptive" changes that Trump's policies seek to make, according to Krugman, and will act as if nothing is wrong "until it’s blindingly obvious that it isn’t."

President Donald Trump's Federal Housing Finance Agency director, Bill Pulte, has emerged as a surprise attack dog for the president's agenda, fishing up a series of document discrepancies and using them as the basis to file shaky mortgage fraud complaints against various politicians and civil servants who have angered the president, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), New York Attorney General Letitia James, and most recently Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.

But it turns out his own financial record may not be squeaky clean.

Two firefighters were arrested on Wednesday while they were responding to the Bear Gulch fire in Washington state's Olympic National Forest, the Seattle Times reported. Now the state's senator is demanding "immediate answers."

"This administration’s immigration policy is fundamentally sick. Trump has wrongfully detained everyone from lawful green-card holders to American citizens – no one should assume this was necessary or appropriate,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) in a statement.

The internet erupted on Thursday after a former Major League Baseball slugger announced he is running for a congressional seat in Texas.

Mark Teixeira, who played 14 seasons in the Major Leagues, announced that he is running as a Republican in Texas' 21st Congressional District, a seat being vacated by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) as he runs for the Texas Attorney General's office. Teixeira said in a statement that he is ready to "help defend President Donald Trump's America First agenda" and work to protect Texas families and individual rights.

A conservative federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's state media chief from firing a key official, in yet another blow to the Trump administration's bid to dismantle these media services.

According to CNN, Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the reinstatement of Voice of America Director Michael Abramowitz, reversing — at least for now — U.S. Agency for Global Media chief Kari Lake's attempt to fire him.

On Wednesday, Dr. Susan Monarez was removed from her weeks-long role as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And a fellow now-former official is now revealing that Monarez refused to do something illegal, and refused to sign off on anything contrary to science.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, former Acting CDC Director Dr. Richard Besser said he maintains contact with the now-former CDC director in his current role as CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In speaking to Monarez, he asked if there were any "lines that she was unwilling to cross."

Mark Alford faces questions about Trump Medicaid cuts, GOP priorities in Missouri town hall

by Tyler Kirwan and Emily Skidmore, Missouri Independent
August 28, 2025

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who is a physician, had a lot of concerns when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed to the post. Still, the doctor voted to confirm Kennedy despite his concerns.

This week, a large group of officials and top leaders at the Centers for Disease Control resigned or were fired after the director, Dr. Susan Monarez, was shoved out of her post after only a few weeks.

Dr. Debra Houry, the chief medical officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was escorted from the facility on Thursday following the firing of the full department's director, Susan Monarez, on Wednesday.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Houry, who resigned in protest of Monarez's ouster, said things at the CDC have been "really difficult when it comes to having science and data-driven decisions."

European leaders were previously hopeful that the summit in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin might yield some real progress toward ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Atlantic reported on Thursday — but now they're left confused about what happened and whether any agreements were struck.

The meeting, in which Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff also played a prominent role, already stirred controversy at home, due to the submissive posture of Trump throughout the affair.

Fox News host Sean Hannity melted down on X on Thursday, attacking his "old friend" and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom.

The outburst appears to have started when Newsom called Hannity out for purportedly hypocritical positions when it comes to supporting President Donald Trump.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested there was a problem in the United States because children could not "bring their guns" to school.

During a news conference in Texas on Thursday, Kennedy was asked about whether he considered mass shootings a public health crisis following the Wednesday massacre at a church in Minneapolis.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt snapped at NBC reporter Gabe Gutierrez on Thursday after the journalist asked about the Trump administration’s new migrant facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz," which was recently ordered to be shut down within 60 days by a judge.

“The administration has not been shy fighting back against what it calls 'activist judges,' but why is it backing down this time?” Gutierrez asked during a White House press briefing in the West Wing at the White House in Washington, D.C.