
The Guardian - 1 hour 7 min ago
The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC will have to be drained again. Donald Trump has blamed vandalism for the failure to keep the water "American flag blue". But what if this small body of water is proof that the president can't outrun the truth? Jonathan Freedland speaks to Arwa Mahdawi about why this project, which has cost the taxpayer millions, is proving to be such an embarrassing failure for a man obsessed with image Archive: AP, Reuters Continue reading...

The Guardian - 1 hour 51 min ago
Australian Labor party president says authoritarian trends must not be normalised' in Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Labor must not allow increasingly authoritarian trends in Australian politics to become "normalised", ALP president Wayne Swan has warned, likening Pauline Hanson's attacks on multiculturalism and journalists to Donald Trump's hostile takeover of American civic life....

Buzz Feed - 5 hours 31 min ago
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TMZ - 5 hours 42 min ago
A new book released this week details the scene at the White House when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and it looks like President Trump first got word about the tragedy from his son, Barron Trump. In "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency…...

Daily Signal - 5 hours 48 min ago
President Donald Trump's Drug Enforcement Administration is defending a Biden-era initiative that allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills into the country for the purpose of building a larger case against drug dealers. This comes after President Trump earlier this week posted a news story which labeled the initiative a possible “Fast and Furious 2.0,”...

The Hill - 6 hours 44 min ago
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday he hopes Democrats remember that after the primary elections are over, the party's "enemy is Donald Trump." MS NOW's Jen Psaki spoke with Jeffries about Israel playing a role in the New York Democratic primary. She asked Jeffries about his reflection on the issue and how Democratic...

Daily Signal - 7 hours 28 min ago
Just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to sign a bipartisan housing bill Wednesday, he refused to act on it until Congress sent the SAVE America Act to his desk, raising the question of why the president would take such a risk on legislation that appears unlikely to pass the Senate. Last week, the...

CNBC - 8 hours 32 min ago
President Donald Trump's moves on housing, FISA, Iran and Washington projects are creating new headaches for Republicans trying to show voters they can govern.

Buzz Feed - 9 hours 20 min ago
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The Independent - 10 hours 7 min ago
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation...

CNBC - 10 hours 20 min ago
President Donald Trump has attempted to spruce up Washington in advance of the country's 250th anniversary.

The Guardian - 10 hours 20 min ago
Florida immigration jail that became byword for cruelty and cost state taxpayers $1.2m a day shuts down after a year Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican governor, boasted on Thursday of deporting 21,000 people from Alligator Alcatraz, as he confirmed the closure of the notorious immigration jail hastily erected in the Everglades that became a byword for cruelty and human rights abuses and environmental damage. Standing beside Tom Homan, Donald Trump's so-called border czar, at a press conference...

The Guardian - 10 hours 42 min ago
Senior official alleges in court filing that damage included about 70 fence post tops thrown' into the pool A senior National Park Service (NPS) official has said a liner along the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool was "cut with a sharp knife or razor" earlier this month, repeating Donald Trump's claims of vandalism. Frank Lands, the deputy director for operations for NPS, made the allegation in a court filing on Wednesday, as part of a lawsuit brought by a nonprofit...

The Independent - 11 hours 32 min ago
The statements were the first time the Republican administration has offered specifics for when and how the Reflecting Pool may have been damaged...

The Raw Story - 11 hours 39 min ago
In her dissent from one of the Thursday Supreme Court decisions on immigrant rights , Justice Elena Kagan made sure Donald Trump's litany of racist remarks would be a forever part of the court's historical record. The liberal justice used her dissent in a case where the conservative majority gave the president the legal authority to strip Temporary Protected Status from over 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, among others, to call out the president for his flagrant racism. On MS NOW, legal...

The Guardian - 12 hours 5 min ago
Top Democrat signals party will not back paying for unpopular conflict never authorized by Congress The White House has requested Congress approve $87.6bn in new funding, much of which would go towards the costs of Donald Trump's war with Iran, but a top Democrat has signaled the party will not support paying for an unpopular conflict that lawmakers never authorized. The Trump administration's supplemental funding request released on Wednesday comes amid a logjam in US Congress sparked by...

Buzz Feed - 12 hours 34 min ago
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US Weekly - 12 hours 50 min ago
Barack Obama is weighing in on President Donald Trump 's alleged "obsession" with him. "You gotta ask him what it is … the obsession," Obama, 64, said when asked about Trump's "fascination" with him on the Wednesday, June 24, episode of Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson 's " All the Smoke " podcast. "I obviously have a room in his head," the former president continued. "A suite in his head. … First of all, when I was president,...

The Guardian - 12 hours 53 min ago
Consumer prices rose 4.1% in May from a year earlier a sign rising costs could pose problem for Trump in midterms The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose to a new three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, a sign rising costs could pose political problems for Donald Trump and his political party as midterm elections near. Consumer prices rose 4.1% in May from a year earlier, the US commerce department said Thursday, the largest annual increase since April 2023. On a monthly basis...

The Independent - 12 hours 54 min ago
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta labelled truly one of the dumbest individuals to have ever existed' after investigating President Donald Trump's claim the pool was slashed by saboteurs...

The Independent - 12 hours 59 min ago
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation...

Fortune - 13 hours 7 min ago
While Big Tech's biggest names have publicly courted President Donald Trump, Oracle's billionaire cofounder took a quieter route one that has reportedly tracked with major wins for his company and his son's media empire.

Hello Magazine - 13 hours 8 min ago
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger explained the rationale behind ABC's decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air after his comments on Charlie Kirk...

The Guardian - 13 hours 38 min ago
Ruling comes amid drive by Republican administration to reshape rules around voting ahead of midterms The Trump administration's plan to deny mail-in ballots to states that would not give their voter rolls to federal officials was blocked Thursday morning by a federal judge in Boston. US district judge Indira Talwani ruled that the provisions of an executive order issued by Donald Trump on 31 March requiring the postal service to require the use of a barcode tracking system for ballot envelopes...