
The Raw Story - 1 hour 18 min ago
People were outraged on Friday after President Donald Trump downplayed the reportedly poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln , where service members have described a dire situation . Trump was boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland heading to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York when the press corps started asking him questions about the naval vessel and sailors on board. "Family members of service members are concerned about conditions on the USS Lincoln,"...

The Independent - 1 hour 20 min ago
President Donald Trump downplays concerns about the USS Abraham Lincoln's extended deployment in the Middle East...

NBC News - 1 hour 23 min ago
Watch live coverage as President Donald Trump travels to Long Island to visit a police academy in Garden City, New York, with Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for governor, where the president will deliver remarks.

NBC News - 1 hour 24 min ago
President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed concerns from families of service members about the grim conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose deployment had been overextended in the Middle East due to the Iran war.

The Hill - 1 hour 27 min ago
President Trump on Thursday announced new tariffs on drone imports in an effort to curb U.S. reliance on foreign supply chains amid possible national security threats. Under a proclamation signed by Trump, larger drones with certain sensitive capabilities, including thermal imaging, are subject to a 100 percent tariff, along with other critical parts. Smaller drones...

The Hill - 1 hour 51 min ago
President Trump will deliver remarks Friday from Long Island, N.Y., where he is expected to tout his administration's efforts to combat violent crime. The appearance comes as the Trump administration ramps up its focus on crime in Democratic-led cities, including extending the National Guard deployment to Washington, D.C. The president has defended the federal crackdown,...

The Raw Story - 2 hours 4 min ago
Iran experts expressed extreme alarm Friday as more information emerged about President Donald Trump 's frantic escape from a missile threat in a catering container, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Friday. The ploy to switch planes from Air Force One to another jet amid a threat from Iran has ignited a media firestorm and raised more questions about the current war. As Trump boarded another plane, which was accompanied by jet fighters, it left the press unknowingly vulnerable on...

The Guardian - 3 hours 51 min ago
The pattern in the US and Britain is clear. They serve up stunt after stunt to mask incompetence and the betrayal of all those who trusted them It's a shame Nigel Farage ducked the announcement of his victory in the Clacton byelection, which confirmed his return as MP for the seat he had needlessly resigned from just a few weeks earlier. You'd have thought he would have loved it. It was the culmination of a stunt, an exercise in politics as performance. It was a display animated by and seeking...

Daily Signal - 4 hours 9 min ago
The Patriot Games came to a conclusion on Tuesday night at Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio, where male and female high school athletes from all 50 states and some territories were competing for $125,000 scholarships. President Donald Trump, who announced the event last year as an initiative celebrating America 250, was present for the finale....

The Raw Story - 4 hours 20 min ago
A leaked questionnaire shows President Donald Trump's administration has been asking NATO members to demonstrate their loyalty to him before deciding if the U.S. will cut military support for the alliance. Bloomberg News reviewed the document asking whether each country has "been publicly supportive" of U.S. foreign policy, including strikes in the Middle East and the Western Hemisphere that were carried out without NATO consultation. It also asks what "restrictions" allies have...

Daily Signal - 4 hours 35 min ago
President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to continue construction of his $400 million White House ballroom after an appeals court ruled the project lacked the necessary approval from Congress. The Trump administration asked the justices to keep the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...

CNBC - 4 hours 43 min ago
President Donald Trump tore down the White House East Wing to make way for the ballroom project.

The Next Web - 5 hours 37 min ago
Donald Trump signed the proclamation on 13 August. It carries the title Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the United States. It rests on Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the national security clause, and on Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974. The rates, […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Guardian - 5 hours 37 min ago
Monkey bars, gawky teenagers and a presidential cameo all given a prime-time showcase by ABC combined for the most leaden hour of America's 250th birthday summer Culturally, it's been a tough few months for Donald Trump. The UFC night he held at the White House for his birthday got lost amid the froth and excitement of the World Cup. The Great American State Fair on the Washington DC National Mall was a dud . The president's jokes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner all bombed...

Yard Barker - 5 hours 46 min ago
Has the countdown to the end of the FIFA president's reign begun? Gianni Infantino has suffered a fresh, heavy blow to his bid to remain at the helm of the International Federation of Association Football.

The Hill - 5 hours 47 min ago
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration will unveil new measures against Iran next week as it seeks to increase economic pressure on the regime to come back to the negotiating table on a deal to end hostilities and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "Watch this space for more announcements coming next week...

The Guardian - 5 hours 49 min ago
Move will be one of first large-scale foreign investments in country since US ousted leader Nicol s Maduro in January BP has answered Donald Trump's call for oil companies to help rebuild Venezuela's fossil fuel industry with new plans to develop a large offshore gasfield. BP will partner with two oil firms with close links to the Trump administration to develop the second phase of the Loran gasfield, in one of the first large-scale foreign investments in Venezuela since the US ousted its...

The Guardian - 6 hours 15 min ago
Administration asks justices to keep appeals court decision to halt work on hold while it prepares a full appeal US politics live latest updates The Trump administration has asked the US supreme court to allow construction of his controversial $400m White House ballroom to proceed after an appeals court ordered work to halt. In a case testing Donald Trump's presidential authority, the Washington-based US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ruled last week that the controversial...

The Hill - 6 hours 23 min ago
A federal trade court agreed Thursday that President Trump lawfully ended a tariff exemption for low-cost goods last year. Trump did so by invoking the same 1970s-era emergency statute that the Supreme Court ruled didn't authorize the president's sweeping "Liberation Day" tariffs. The U.S. Court of International Trade said ending a tariff exemption is legally distinct and...

Daily Signal - 6 hours 33 min ago
President Donald Trump condemned vandalism of the World War II memorial in Washington D.C. “Our beautiful World War II Memorial was just hit by Spray Painting Vandals,” Trump wrote Friday in a Truth Social post. “THERE CAN BE NO GREATER INSULT TO THOSE AMERICAN HEROES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II. First the Reflecting Pool,...

The Hill - 6 hours 42 min ago
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering the U.S. Navy to revert to older catapult systems on its aircraft carriers, arguing the change would be costly while questioning Trump's qualifications to make such a call. "He's a marginally failed real estate developer with multiple bankruptcies," Kelly said in an interview with...

The Onion - 6 hours 54 min ago
WASHINGTON Dismissing news of the 70-story skyscraper as a "hit job" manufactured by the mainstream media, President Donald Trump downplayed Thursday the significance of a Trump Tower found on Little St. James, the island once owned by the late child predator Jeffrey Epstein. "Look, there's a lot of buildings with my name on it, one of which […] The post Trump Downplays Significance Of Trump Tower Found On Epstein Island appeared first on The Onion .

The Next Web - 7 hours 9 min ago
Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Executive Directors oversee it. The Attorney General designates one, and the Secretary of Homeland Security designates the other. What the White House says […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Guardian - 8 hours 38 min ago
When Air Force One took off from Turkey after July's Nato summit, almost everyone believed Donald Trump was on board but he wasn't. Jonathan Freedland talks to Tara Setmayer of the Seneca Project about why the White House felt the need to come up with such an elaborate lie to protect the president Continue reading...