
The Guardian - 11 hours 52 min ago
The president senses a crisis in his cult of personality. He believes the path to victory is through unwavering devotion Donald Trump has framed his theme for the midterm elections. It has come to him as naturally and inevitably as staring into the mirror, beyond any logic or argument, his definitive answer to no specific issue, providing no understanding of any particular problem, but transcending all of them. His political theme is more primal than programmatic, more instinctive than analytical...

The Guardian - 11 hours 52 min ago
Scott Jennings has pivoted from his early critiques and caught the White House's eye with pro-Trump commentary on CNN In 2016, a month before the presidential election that Donald Trump would win, the longtime Republican strategist Scott Jennings described him as "a vulgar, crude, braggadocious, desperate-to-impress playboy who tends to view most everything through a sexual lens". After Trump's loss in the 2020 election, Jennings excoriated Trump's conduct during the January...

Fox News - 11 hours 52 min ago
President Donald Trump's mid-decade redistricting push netted Republicans at least 10 more right-leaning congressional seats ahead of the midterms.

IGN - 12 hours 31 min ago
Rockstar has discussed the need to "be careful" with its satirical take on American culture in GTA 6, when asked about including references to recent events such as the Covid pandemic and Donald Trump's presidency.

The Guardian - 12 hours 52 min ago
The singer had a serendipitous mixture of humor, humility and humanity. We could all stand to channel it a bit more The moment that the world found out that Dolly Parton had died , I was in a hair salon in the reddest congressional district in New York state. The neighborhood on the shore of Lake Erie where I move every summer voted solidly for Donald Trump in 2024. I often pass a lawn sign that has something misogynistic to say about New York's Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, and the mere...

The Independent - 13 hours 10 min ago
President Donald Trump's administration has issued a memo for universities that seeks to restrict issuance of certain internship work...

NY Post - 13 hours 24 min ago
US District Judge Indira Talwani blocked a USPS rule backed by Donald Trump that would have restricted mail-in voting ahead of the election.

ABC News - 14 hours 57 min ago
Some Republican candidates are quietly distancing themselves from President Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress...

ABC News - 15 hours 32 min ago
Judge Christopher Cooper has expressed skepticism about the Kennedy Center's plan to quickly add President Donald Trump's name to the building...

Fox News - 17 hours 10 min ago
President Donald Trump's mail-in voting executive order faces a new two-week block from a federal judge as voters prepare for the midterm elections.

The Guardian - 17 hours 52 min ago
Course at Donald Trump's Turnberry resort was painted with words Gaza is not 4 sale' and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti Seven people charged with vandalising Donald Trump's Turnberry golf course in Scotland have been accused of malicious damage "having a terrorist connection". The clubhouse at the five-star Trump Turnberry hotel and resort on the west coast of Scotland was graffitied on 8 March last year and the course was dug up and painted with the words "Gaza is not...

The Guardian - 17 hours 52 min ago
In the past couple of weeks, the Trump administration has reignited its trade war with Canada, threatened an economic D-day' against Iran and watched the US national debt surpass $40tn. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has personally made billions of dollars since returning to office. Jonathan Freedland speaks to Dan Alexander of Forbes about how Trump has amassed his fortune and what his economic record could mean for voters in the midterms Watch Jonathan Freedland on our new Politics Weekly YouTube...

ABC News - 18 hours 53 min ago
A federal judge is once again blocking President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to limit mail voting in the midterm elections...

The Guardian - 19 hours 22 min ago
President's directive stalls for a second time about a week before the first postal ballots are due to be sent out A federal judge on Thursday halted at least for the moment attempts to implement Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail voting. The president's directive stalled for a second time about a week before the first mail ballots are due to be sent out for the rapidly approaching midterm elections. In the US district court, Judge Indira Talwani placed a 14-day hold on the...

Fox News - 19 hours 36 min ago
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed back on President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" amid his trade war with Canada.

NBC News - 19 hours 57 min ago
A federal judge Thursday blocked a Postal Service regulation that would exert control over mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections in the latest setback on the issue for President Donald Trump.

UPI - 20 hours 11 min ago
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" after his dispute with Canada over tariffs.

CNBC - 20 hours 34 min ago
President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly mulling over new tariffs on chips, while Nvidia increases support for Chinese AI models.

The Raw Story - 21 hours 29 min ago
CIA Director John Ratcliffe's secret trip to Russia came at the personal direction of President Donald Trump while senior White House aides were kept in the dark. According to a Thursday report by the Wall Street Journal, the covert diplomatic mission to Moscow was tightly held as Trump dispatched his top spy to carry a message to top Kremlin figures. Trump's move bypassed aides and military brass who would ordinarily be looped in beforehand, The Journal noted. The choice to send Ratcliffe...

The Raw Story - 22 hours 23 min ago
A Wall Street Journal piece is warning that GOP candidates are "running scared" from President Donald Trump as voter frustration grows in Iowa . A Thursday opinion piece published by The Journal highlighted the growing frustration among Iowa voters, which it tied to the hits to farmers caused by tariffs and the war in Iran , and how it's causing GOP candidates to create some separation with Trump. "So many people are just so angry," Terry Arbogast, an Iowa nurse, told The Journal...

The Guardian - 22 hours 58 min ago
Mark Carney rejects attempt to rename lake as did several US governors, with Tony Evers mocking the move US politics live latest updates Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario, making it Lake America, amid his escalating trade war with Canada. The order directs federal agencies to adopt the name-change on US maps, documents and databases. But Trump has no authority to rename Canada's portion of the lake, nor to compel Canada...

The Raw Story - 23 hours 19 min ago
President Donald Trump lashed out at a Fox News correspondent on Thursday over what he called "a particularly inaccurate report" about the U.S. war with Iran. "Jonathan Hunt of FoxNews did a particularly inaccurate report on the Failing Islamic Republic of Iran," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "I don't want to meet, they do. In fact, they are begging to make a deal." Trump concluded his heated post by demanding action from one of Fox News' top anchors....