President Donald Trump is ready to declare victory over the Founding Fathers. During a lunch with Senate Republicans on Tuesday, Trump expressed a clear desire to win the title of America’s best president. “The great George Washington, even… well, I think we have to value him above me,” Trump said while speaking in the White…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge overseeing the Trump administration’s prosecution of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver on charges that she assaulted and impeded immigration agents outside a New Jersey detention center told the government to remove social media posts he called “harmful” to the congresswoman. District Judge Jamel Semper on Tuesday heard pretrial arguments…
Donald Trump no longer plans to meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary, the White House confirmed. The US president will not meet the Russian leader in the “immediate future” after a phone call between negotiators from both countries to prepare for peace talks went sour. On Thursday, Trump said he would meet Putin in Budapest once…
On Saturday, “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump’s authoritarian actions took place in more than 2,600 locations across the United States. An estimated 7 million people participated, dwarfing even the size of the first event in June, making it the largest day of protests in US history. But instead of addressing their concerns, Trump…
U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia Beach, speaks at a rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump on June 28, 2024, in Chesapeake. (Photo by Charlotte René Woods/Virginia Mercury) Democrats view Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District as one of their best chances to pick up a Republican seat next year, and six candidates have already launched campaigns to…
President Donald Trump fumed Monday over a minor mishap involving a mirror while hosting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Trump was boasting that Australia was “a big buyer of our great military equipment,” which he called “the best equipment in the world by far,” when he suddenly…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An appeals court on Monday stayed a lower court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump from assuming command of 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers. However, Trump is still prohibited from deploying those troops, at least for now. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued two temporary restraining orders earlier this month: one…
Donald Trump is known for his hasty (and frequent) social media posts. He regularly has midnight meltdowns on Truth Social, has shared back-to-back posts about AI nonsense on the platform, and has also threatened people he’s unhappy with in long messages. Health: 8 Common Behaviors That Are Actually ‘Stimulators’ But in recent months, select posts…
Federal prosecutors signaled Sunday that they may seek to fire Patrick Fitzgerald, James Comey’s lead defense attorney, over Fitzgerald’s alleged involvement in revelations to the media shortly after President Donald Trump fired Comey as FBI director in 2017. In a filing Sunday night, prosecutors suggested to U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff that Fitzgerald, Comey’s lawyer…
WASHINGTON (AP) — China likes to condemn the United States for reaching too far outside its borders to make demands on non-U.S. companies. But when it tried to strike back at American interests this month, Beijing did exactly the same thing. Expanding rare earth export rules, Beijing announced for the first time that it will…
