White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt contradicted former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, stating that Trump had floated the idea of renaming New York's Penn Station and Washington, D.C.'s Dulles Airport after himself. This statement came just days after Trump claimed that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had suggested the Penn Station renaming during a conversation about federal funding for a rail project.
According to Time, Leavitt said, "It is something the President floated in his conversation with Chuck Schumer." This directly contradicted Trump's earlier assertion, made on Friday, that Schumer had proposed the Penn Station renaming to secure funding for the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel project.
The debate over renaming public infrastructure after Trump is just one of several significant events unfolding, as reported by multiple news sources. Other issues include challenges to Trump's "Buy American" mandate for EV chargers and shifts in NATO leadership, according to Time. The ongoing Epstein allegations also continue to generate headlines.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's political future is uncertain, as reported by Vox. The Epstein files may have implications for governments, though not necessarily the U.S. government.
In other news, a movement called "QuitGPT" is gaining traction, with users canceling their ChatGPT subscriptions. This is due to concerns about the chatbot's performance, perceived sycophancy, and OpenAI's ties to the Trump administration, including a donation by OpenAI's president, according to MIT Technology Review. The campaign, fueled by dissatisfaction with the latest models and political objections, has led to a surge of user cancellations and online discussions, despite ChatGPT's massive user base of nearly 900 million weekly active users as of December 2025.
Additionally, a quiet cold war is happening across America within Christian communities, as reported by Vox. Progressive Catholics are ready to fight back against the religious right's use of scripture and faith.
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