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“These companies may decide that it is in their financial interests to ease up on criticism of Trump, but if they do so they forfeit the role that the media has played in our democracy.” On Tuesday night, President Donald...

President Donald Trump and CBS parent company Paramount want you to think that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was canceled for “purely financial” reasons. Really? During the 2024 election, Donald Trump sued CBS, making claims CBS called “meritless.” Legal...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday she’ll vote against the Senate’s first batch of government funding bills, signaling early hardball by Democrats ahead of a shutdown deadline 10 weeks away. In a statement, the Massachusetts Democrat and progressive standard-bearer cited Trump...

Social Security commissioner Frank Bisignano will huddle with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in Washington on Wednesday amid deep Democratic concerns about the agency’s cuts to services, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Warren will have the chance to air grievances...

Three liberal senators want to know whether there is any truth to President Donald Trump’s claim that Paramount is actually paying him about $32 million to settle his lawsuit against the company, double what was announced by the CBS parent...

Economists are split on how damaging President Trump’s tariff agenda may turn out to be. Some are worried it will boost inflation, while others argue a universal 10% hike to imports introduced months ago have barely blipped in inflation data....

From higher student-loan balances to lower college attendance, education groups have a list of concerns with President Donald Trump’s plans to dismantle the Department of Education. Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a report on Thursday – exclusively viewed by Business Insider...

President Trump’s efforts to direct millions of dollars to his future presidential library has drawn fresh attention to a lack of visibility into the identities or potential interests of the donors who are funding it, a longstanding Washington concern facing...

Elizabeth Warren has seen this movie before. As a Harvard professor, Warren rang the alarm bell in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. Now a veteran senator, she is ringing that bell again. Where President Donald Trump’s sees...

A group of prominent senators is pushing the Trump administration to abandon its decision to start charging interest for nearly 8 million student-loan borrowers. In a letter sent to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a...

Companies hoping for favorable outcomes from the Trump administration have pledged to give at least $63 million to Donald Trump’s future presidential library, according to a new analysis from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Beyond that, other promised gifts and in-kind...

SSA workers say the recent decision to involuntarily reassign 1,000 field office employees to man the 1-800 number flies in the face of leadership’s rosy pronouncements and further degrades service. A pair of Democratic senators on Monday fired a bevy...