2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (188+ words) A self-described “history nerd” whose “happy place” is inside library archives, Westervelt opens her narrative by recounting how the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s U.S. trade association, came into being. Collective amnesia about deteriorating conditions is also seen…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1321+ words) The contractor President Trump hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is taking full responsibility for the pool’s torn blue paint and lining. The New York Times reports that Atlantic Industrial Coatings told the White House that its own…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (903+ words) President Donald Trump admitted that he’s just building monuments to himself. In a sprawling dispatch Friday, New York Magazine’s Ben Terris asked Trump what he made of a viral barb from Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator from Georgia who suggested…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1034+ words) At least two Republicans in Congress are now calling for Pete Hegesth’s ouster as secretary of defense. Following Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation on Wednesday, Senator Thom Tillis called for President Trump to fire Hegseth, saying that he has “never…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1166+ words) The Trump administration is dipping its toe back in reality television. The Small Business Administration announced Tuesday that the agency’s Million Dollar Pitch Competition would be concluded with a “live finale event” in Washington D.C. on September 18. Five small…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1275+ words) Stephen Miller has figured out a way to use President Donald Trump’s new favorite aide to push his own agenda. Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has realized that he can use Harp’s role to his advantage. Two…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1333+ words) President Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is continuing to fail. The state of the pool Wednesday would seem to confirm that Trump was wrong all along, although he has yet to admit it. Last week, court filings…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (176+ words) Donald Trump’s rage at Canada is growing more unhinged. He just posted a deranged threat to rename Lake Ontario with the phrase “Lake America.” But it gets worse: He also intimated that the U.S. won’t be “doing much business…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1450+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 24 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. The furor around Donald Trump’s very devoted young aide, Natalie Harp, isn’t abating in the least, and new reporting indicates…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (937+ words) Natalie Harp’s relationship with President Donald Trump is even more intimate than we thought. The Daily Beast published two intimate letters Thursday from Trump’s assistant, courtesy of Michael Wolff, Trump’s biographer who maintained a disturbingly close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein....