
Deadline Hollywood - 10 hours 22 min ago
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time jumping right into his main topic: the “bizarro-world version of civil rights” that he says Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is persuing. “In normal times, the DOJ does some incredibly important work. But sadly under Donald Trump, while political prosecutions have risen, other genuinely important […]...

UPI - 13 hours 24 min ago
President Donald Trump on Sunday said Staff Secretary Will Scharf will be his new White House counsel, promoting another former personal lawyer.

ABC News - 18 hours 34 sec ago
President Donald Trump says Will Scharf will be the new White House counsel, replacing David Warrington...

The Guardian - 18 hours 14 min ago
Scharf, who helped president win approval for $400m ballroom, to replace David Warrington on 1 September Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Will Scharf, the staff secretary who helped secure approval for the $400m White House ballroom project, will become White House counsel and assistant to the president. Effective 1 September, Scharf will replace David Warrington, who will be leaving the administration to join the private sector. Warrington formerly served as a personal counsel and a lawyer...

The Guardian - 20 hours 48 min ago
This live blog is now closed. Israel rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan, says Netanyahu Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a Gaza plan hailed by US president Donald Trump, vowing no military pullout of Gaza until Hamas is "genuinely" disarmed. The Israeli military "will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and our citizens," Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting. Here are the other...

US Weekly - 21 hours 7 min ago
Former congressman Eric Swalwell had a reported fling with President Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller 's wife, Katie Miller , when she was a 22-year-old intern working on Capitol Hill. A Thursday, August 6, report published by Sources Say News , a popular Capitol Hill blog, revealed the alleged relationship between Swalwell, 45, and Katie, now 34. According to the report, the pair engaged in a "sexual relationship" roughly a decade ago — before she married her husband, the current...

The Guardian - 22 hours 8 min ago
In rare public break with Trump, Israel's prime minister says IDF will not withdraw until Hamas is disarmed Middle East crisis live latest updates Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , has rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza in a rare public break with Donald Trump. In a statement on Sunday, Netanyahu said that he was confronting a "wave of rumours about Israeli weakness and Israeli withdrawals on all fronts" and rebuked US pressure to end wars in Gaza, Lebanon...

Fox News - 22 hours 24 min ago
NORAD intercepted two general aviation aircraft over Bedminster after they entered restricted airspace near President Donald Trump's New Jersey golf club.

The Guardian - 23 hours 21 min ago
Michigan nominee, who spoke to Obama after primary win, vows to fight inequality as president makes billions off you' Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Michigan, embraced Donald Trump's suggestion that the two represent "VERY DIFFERENT" versions of the US, pledging to fight inequality while the president is "making billions of dollars off of you". In a Saturday night post on his Truth Social platform, Trump shared an image of himself and the first lady...