
Newser - 10 hours 56 min ago
Donald Trump says he aced his latest physical but the proof, for now, is not in public view. "Everything checked out PERFECTLY," Trump, who will turn 80 next month, wrote on social media Tuesday afternoon. The White House did not immediately say what tests were performed or whether his physician,...

The Guardian - 11 hours 25 min ago
Trump's mass deportation campaign is accelerating the climate crisis. Plus, US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers Good morning. Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign has spurred at least an 80% increase in immigration flights year over year, accelerating the climate crisis by emitting massive amounts of carbon dioxide, according to data analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian. How much carbon is ICE emitting through deportation flights? US Immigration and...

The Guardian - 11 hours 58 min ago
US president, who turns 80 next month, frequently casts himself as fit but recent photos have added to questions about his health Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, will undergo his routine annual physical on Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, after a year of public attention on apparently minor health issues. The US president frequently casts himself as more energetic and fitter than Joe Biden, his Democratic predecessor...

Huffington Post - 12 hours 12 min ago
"Nothing like making those who died serving their country into a punchline," one observer wrote.

NBC News - 12 hours 26 min ago
President Donald Trump is heading to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what the White house calls "a medical and dental checkup." It is his third visit in 13 months, putting a fresh spotlight on the president's health ahead of his 80th birthday in June. NBC's Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.

The Independent - 13 hours 11 min ago
It was nonetheless a mixed morning for the financial markets with UK stocks climbing higher and government borrowing costs falling.

The Guardian - 13 hours 28 min ago
Vote for Republican nomination is latest test of President's grip over GOP Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Texans are voting for a Republican nominee for US Senate in Tuesday's runoff election, following Donald Trump's late bid to influence the race in his latest effort to rid the GOP of less devoted leaders. Iran has poured cold water on suggestions that a deal with the US is imminent, pointing to the confusion in US positions and Israeli interference as reasons why...

ABC News - 13 hours 38 min ago
President Donald Trump is scheduled to get a medical exam on Tuesday, putting his health back under public scrutiny...

The Guardian - 13 hours 50 min ago
As always, the kids will be the stars of this year's community. But they will be aided by their families, friends, teachers and coaches The cult of the great man, common in the US given our love of glorifying the individual, has lately reached depressing extremes. Elon Musk, fancying himself a modern Midas, wrought massive chaos on the federal government last year with his band of Doge hacks. Donald Trump, meanwhile, has instituted an unofficial cult of personality in DC, and recently posted...

The Guardian - 13 hours 50 min ago
Scandal-plagued Ken Paxton has won Trump's backing can he defeat John Cornyn in a high-stakes primary runoff? Ken Paxton , the state attorney general, takes on four-term incumbent John Cornyn on Tuesday in the ugliest primary election of the year. The winner of the Republican Senate runoff in Texas will contest November's general election against Democrat James Talarico. Paxton and Cornyn have spent months coveting the most valuable endorsement in Republican politics: Donald Trump. Last...

The Guardian - 14 hours 9 min ago
Some say project Iran is a disaster, but as a get-out-of-jail-free card it's a winner. He did say he was smart, didn't he? How far would you go for your son? For Donald Trump, the answer is simply: "The Bahamas? That is way too far! Why can't you just get married on the golf course we buried your mother in? Or better still, the one I'm being carted to the second I get off the reinforced toilet I'm typing this on." And so it was that the president cordially flaked on the...

The Guardian - 14 hours 50 min ago
Trump campaign accelerating climate crisis as officials move migrants to detention jails and deport them from US US immigration enforcement flights are producing hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world. Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign has spurred at least an 80% increase in such flights year over year, accelerating...

NBC News - 14 hours 51 min ago
Tuesday's primary runoffs in Texas will put President Donald Trump's endorsement to the test again the latest step in a mission to punish some incumbent Republicans Trump has deemed insufficiently loyal...

The Independent - 16 hours 2 min ago
More than half of Americans say Trump has noticeably declined in the past year...

The Guardian - 18 hours 2 min ago
Donald Trump says deal will be great and meaningful, or there will be no deal at all' in online post key US politics stories from Monday 25 May at a glance Iran has poured cold water on suggestions that a deal with the US is imminent, pointing to the confusion in US positions and Israeli interference as reasons why an agreement is proving difficult to secure. Speaking at the weekly foreign ministry press briefing, Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran's negotiating team, also said future...

UPI - 22 hours 43 min ago
Chinese President Xi Jinping sharply criticized Japan's "remilitarization" during summit talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing.

The Raw Story - 22 hours 50 min ago
Steve Schmidt , former Republican operative, had a scathing response to the Trump administration and MAGA on Memorial Day. The co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project described "MAGA's ultimate disgrace" and called President Donald Trump and his White House "America's most despicable men and women." He reflected on Memorial Day, the ultimate sacrifice that Americans have made serving their country around the world and warned that there were forces trying to...

CNBC - 23 hours 8 min ago
Donald Trump also said negotiations with Iran were "proceeding nicely," but cautioned that the U.S. could resume military action if discussions were to collapse.