
The Guardian - 9 hours 58 min ago
Republican lawmakers express concern after US defense secretary repeatedly excluded Democrats from briefings US politics live latest updates Republican senators have criticized the Pentagon for locking Democrats out of classified briefings on defense spending, warning that Pete Hegseth's approach could jeopardize passage of Donald Trump's record $1.5tn military budget increase. The US defense secretary has made at least two trips to Capitol Hill in recent weeks to pitch the budget, but has...

Advocate - 10 hours 11 min ago
Having been ordered by a federal judge to remove President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. , Trump's handpicked board has devised a new way to put it back.

Fox News - 10 hours 22 min ago
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Patterson said he suspects a "highly placed" leaker revealed the story of President Donald Trump's Air Force One swap.

The Guardian - 11 hours 2 min ago
As Karoline Leavitt plans to step down, it's apparent how the president above all values a readiness to twist the truth As Karoline Leavitt prepares to step down from her role as Donald Trump 's fifth White House press secretary, a brief review of her tenure , and that of her predecessors, makes clear that the most fabulist president in US history prizes one quality above all else in the women and men who speak for him: a willingness to tell outrageous lies. Leavitt started her tenure by...

The Hill - 11 hours 28 min ago
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent departed from the NATO summit in Turkey last month aboard the same plane President Trump had been secretly moved from before takeoff, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press that Rubio was aware of the switch and the potential assassination...

The Onion - 12 hours 4 min ago
WASHINGTON Surrounded on all sides by overturned furniture, ripped-out desk drawers, and dozens of loose items flung wildly from their shelves, President Donald Trump reportedly tore up the White House on Thursday in a frantic search for more munitions. “Come on, come on, there’s gotta be one of those interceptor things around here somewhere,” said Trump, […] The post Trump Tears Up White House In Search Of More Munitions appeared first on The Onion .

The Independent - 12 hours 47 min ago
President Donald Trump's handling of repairs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has put the National Park Service in a difficult spot...

The Guardian - 13 hours 4 min ago
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to unprecedented' level Donald Trump's use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an "unprecedented" $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefitting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions...

Mother Jones - 13 hours 34 min ago
The US government doesn’t have many watchdogs left. Donald Trump fired a whole bunch of them shortly after returning to power, and many others have been pushed out since. We do still have a Government Accountability Office (GAO), for what it’s worth, and one week ago, that office published a report detailing the remarkable lack […]...

NBC News - 13 hours 35 min ago
President Donald Trump is announcing Karoline Leavitt will be departing as White House Press Secretary at the end of August after more than a year and half on the job. NBC's Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.

The Guardian - 14 hours 3 min ago
The order cannot affect change, and is only undermining trust in vaccines' as CDC guidance remains the same Donald Trump's executive order on vaccines does not change the US recommendations for the shots but experts say it does create confusion and doubt about vaccines, which will lead to more illness and possibly deaths among children and will make it harder for families and pediatricians to protect them. The executive order was an attempt to reinstate sweeping changes to the vaccine schedule...

The Guardian - 14 hours 17 min ago
Youngest White House press secretary in history says she wants more time to be the best mom'. Plus are we losing the battle against AI slop in the music charts? Good morning. A familiar face in Donald Trump's administration is departing, as the US president announced that Karoline Leavitt was stepping down to spend more time with her family. The president said Leavitt, who became the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary on his return to office in January 2025, "will...

The Independent - 14 hours 32 min ago
Rapper was pardoned by Donald Trump last year after a number of run-ins with the law...

The Independent - 14 hours 39 min ago
The biggest obstacles to President Donald Trump's order on vaccines may be the logistical challenges it poses for U.S. parents, health providers and drugmakers...

Fox News - 15 hours 3 min ago
Donald Trump calls Gov Greg Abbott's data center stance a "mistake," saying the industry "could be bigger than oil" as Texas power grid concerns intensify.

Los Angeles Times - 15 hours 4 min ago
As Trump afflicts the U.S. with a prolonged civic bout of Montezuma's Revenge, Mexican food's role in the overall mess he has left us with is notable.

Fox News - 15 hours 7 min ago
President Donald Trump announces that he is nominating federal Judge Lee Rudofsky for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

ABC News - 15 hours 52 min ago
Democrats are gathering to finalize their 2028 presidential primary calendar this week, setting the stage for a wide open contest to succeed President Donald Trump and chart a path ahead as the party's voters oscillate between progressive and more mode...

The Next Web - 16 hours 2 min ago
The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have sued President Donald Trump over a Trump Media service that sells paid early access to his Truth Social posts, arguing that a sitting president should not be allowed to put a price on his own official words. The service, called Truth API, gives paying subscribers […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Next Web - 17 hours 2 min ago
President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising US federal law enforcement to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organisations operating abroad. Washington, in short, is giving itself formal permission to hack the hackers, and it is roughly as consequential as that sounds. The memorandum takes aim at foreign criminal groups […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Independent - 19 hours 53 min ago
Donald Trump argued the Iranian navy has been destroyed and they cannot enforce the closure of the strait...

Huffington Post - 20 hours 22 min ago
The president posted on Thursday that the U.S. has "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Guardian - 22 hours 53 min ago
This live blog is now closed. Karoline Leavitt will step down as White House press secretary Sign up for the Breaking News US email Core inflation, which measures price changes without volatile goods like food and gas, rose by 0.2% in July , after not really changing in June compared to the month prior. While the latest data shows there has been a 2.9% drop in gas prices from June to July, there has been a 25% hike compared to this time last year . Continue reading...