
The Guardian - 9 hours 53 min ago
Former US president and New York mayor read to a group of children and led a sing-along at a Bronx childcare center Barack Obama met with Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of New York City read to preschoolers and led a sing-along. The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist who marked his 100th day in office just over a week earlier, is also trying to build a working relationship with Donald Trump Obama's...

Attack of the Fanboy - 10 hours 47 min ago
He's feeling the heat.

NBC News - 10 hours 59 min ago
President Donald Trump lashed out at Pope Leo XIV after his criticism of the war in Iran and the tangling of church and state shows the key voting block of American Catholics is slipping for Trump. NBC's Raf Sanchez reports in this week's Sunday Focus.

The Guardian - 11 hours 16 min ago
Book from Josh Owens tells of punishing work for far-right conspiracy theorist who, far from silenced, broadcasts on Donald Trump gave rightwing media provocateurs Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones a shoutout this week, calling them "Low IQs", "stupid people", and "LOSERS". Jones hit back, saying Trump was "committing political suicide on purpose" and had made a deal to sabotage the midterms. America, Jones said, "is...

The Guardian - 11 hours 16 min ago
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week's replies: what would the world look like if people didn't make mistakes? The furious reaction to Donald Trump's posting of an AI-generated image of himself as a Christ-like healer resulted in a rare walkback from the US president, who deleted it from his social media account and insisted it was "supposed...

The Guardian - 11 hours 16 min ago
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week's question: Donald Trump is not the messiah. But what does it take to convince people that you are? What would the world look like if nobody ever made a mistake? Ian Osborne, Worcestershire Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com . Continue reading...

NBC News - 11 hours 17 min ago
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has sunk to a new low as Americans express growing concerns about rising costs and the war with Iran, according to an NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey...

NBC News - 11 hours 28 min ago
Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist to share new NBC News polling that shows 67% of Americans disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling the Iran war.

The Guardian - 12 hours 16 min ago
Trump appears to have crossed a line with his Christian supporters. Will it come back to bite him in the midterms? Donald Trump's depiction of himself as Jesus Christ and recent spat with Pope Leo XIV could come back to bite him and the Republican party in the midterm elections, according to experts, with some newly aggrieved Christian groups set to play an outsized role in key races across the US. The president's Trump-as-the-Messiah Truth Social post sparked immediate criticism among some...

ABC News - 13 hours 2 min ago
President Donald Trump's oil embargo on Cuba has exacerbated a crisis that has turned Havana's nightlife dark and quiet...

The Guardian - 13 hours 16 min ago
Pugilistic presence has laid waste to civil rights decision her take-no-prisoners approach has alarmed legal experts but earned president's plaudits When Donald Trump abruptly fired Pam Bondi earlier this month, he made it clear that an unmistakable priority for the justice department would be using the nation's top law enforcement agency to seek retribution against his political rivals. For months, Trump pressured Bondi to move ahead with prosecutions against James Comey, Letitia James...

Attack of the Fanboy - 14 hours 47 min ago
That rabbit hole got deeper.

Sky News - 16 hours 33 min ago
Donald Trump has renewed his threat to "knock out" Iran's power plants and bridges, unless the Iranian regime reaches a deal to end the war, adding: "NO MORE MR NICE GUY."...

TMZ - 16 hours 56 min ago
Hulk Hogan, just months before his death, convinced his good friend, President Donald Trump, to sit down for an interview for an upcoming Netflix doc, the director revealed to TMZ Sports. "Hulk Hogan: Real American" hits the streaming giant next…...

The Guardian - 17 hours 16 min ago
The vice-president has endured his most humiliating and damaging week as his boss's fall guy. How much more can Maga's great hope take? For a would-be president, JD Vance has an unfortunate habit of getting into fights he cannot win. Three losing battles in the past week with Iranian negotiators , Hungarian voters and Pope Leo brought censure, humiliation and mockery raining down on his head. None were of Vance's choosing. All were fought vicariously on Donald Trump's behalf. The...

The Guardian - 19 hours 37 min ago
This blog is now closed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Defence Minister Richard Marles says the success of Australia's alliance with the United States should not be measured against a single president or federal government in Canberra, insisting the longstanding ties will endure. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticised Australia for not assisting with the war in Iran, while federal Labor, including Marles and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese , say the...

The Guardian - 22 hours 19 min ago
Donald Trump's earlier tone of triumph with the reopening of key waterway falls flat key US politics stories from 18 April at a glance Donald Trump hopes of extricating himself from his war on Iran were dealt another blow on Saturday after Tehran closed the strait of Hormuz again after the president said the US would not end its blockade of Iranian ports. Earlier, Trump said in a social media post: "The naval blockade will remain in full force and effect as it pertains to Iran, only, until...