
The Guardian - 11 hours 20 min ago
Cole Allen remains in custody after being charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. The suspect from the 25 April shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner has a hearing covering the conditions of his confinement scheduled for later today. Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, has been hospitalised and is in a "critical but stable condition", his spokesperson said on Sunday evening. Ted Goodman, the...

Yard Barker - 11 hours 27 min ago
Dana White has confirmed that the UFC White House crowd won't be made up of MMA fans. Tickets for the event at President Donald Trump s official residence aren't available for purchase.

Forbes - 11 hours 28 min ago
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will help stranded vessels in the Persian Gulf navigate through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.

Huffington Post - 12 hours 16 min ago
The onetime Trump sycophant reworked the president's "TDS" insult as the rift between the former allies grew.

The Guardian - 12 hours 27 min ago
US seeks free-market private investment deals over development assistance as experts warn of ripple effects The Trump administration is continuing to pressure the United Nations and the international aid sector more broadly to adopt trade-focused policies to benefit US firms or face the threat of further budget cuts. Donald Trump's second term has already seen USAID suffer mass layoffs and have its remaining operations folded into the state department, with a ripple effect across the globe that...

The Guardian - 12 hours 27 min ago
Yes, Trump might carry them to victory in the midterms. But he can't carry them much longer especially not in the 2028 elections All told, Democrats already seem as though they're headed for a great midterm election. Voters already troubled by the state of the economy now have the impacts of Donald Trump's teeter-tottering war in Iran to contend with, and polls tell us they aren't happy per poll averages from the analyst Nate Silver, nearly 55% of Americans oppose the war in Iran...

The New Yorker - 12 hours 27 min ago
Donald Trump's aversion to admitting fault suggests that we will not likely see events that grapple with the nuanced nature of the nation's history this July 4th.

Huffington Post - 13 hours 24 min ago
"Can't stop, won't stop," the White House captioned its bizarre 60-minute loop. Critics wished it would.

Huffington Post - 13 hours 55 min ago
The former Trump adviser-turned-critic also tipped another Trump -- and not Donald Trump Jr. -- for the hosting role of a possible reboot.

ABC News - 15 hours 15 min ago
European leaders say President Donald Trump's decision to pull thousands of U.S. troops out of Germany came as a surprise but is further proof that they must take care of their own security...

The Guardian - 16 hours 9 min ago
Trump warns any interference with US operation in Hormuz will have to be dealt with forcefully' while providing few details about how the plan will work Trump says US navy will guide' trapped ships from strait of Hormuz amid very positive' talks with Iran Iran has warned the US navy against entering the Hormuz strait , according to a statement from the unified command of Iran's armed forces reported by state media. The warning came after Donald Trump announced the US would start...

The Guardian - 16 hours 33 min ago
In today's newsletter: As oil prices spike and geopolitical tensions rise , a diverse group of governments is attempting to build momentum and rewrite the global energy script Good morning. The cost of fossil fuels is threatening to strangle the global economy once again. Last week, oil prices surged after the US president, Donald Trump, warned that a blockade of Iranian ports could last months causing the price of oil to jump to its highest level since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. With...

The Guardian - 17 hours 27 min ago
War has combined with battered economy to leave Tehran wondering how hardline it can afford to be Iran may not be choking like a stuffed pig as Donald Trump predicted, but its economy is in serious difficulty as a combination of a massive war-damages bill, inflation, currency devaluation, unemployment and a contraction in oil revenues combine to leave the political elite worrying how hardline they can afford to be with their US negotiators. One estimate circulating in Iran's media suggests the...

The Guardian - 17 hours 27 min ago
Both nations are tarred by irreconcilable crises that could unravel democracy itself sanity and stability have never felt further from reach A feature of living at the end of an era is that some events in the present already feel like future artefacts things you expect to see in a school history book, or a documentary many years from now. Here is King Charles's 2026 state visit to the United States, right between the chapters on the war on Iran and the global energy crisis. Here is an image...

NPR - 18 hours 40 min ago
The United States will launch an effort on Monday to "guide" stranded ships from the Iran-gripped Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said, as two ships around the strait reported attacks.

CNBC - 20 hours 34 min ago
President Donald Trump called Rudy Giuliani a "True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR," in a Truth Social post.

The Guardian - 20 hours 53 min ago
Trump is most vulnerable on cost of living and other economic issues; US to guide' trapped ships from Gulf, president says key US politics stories from Sunday 3 May Donald Trump's approval rating has hit its worst level during his two terms in office, with more than six in 10 Americans disapproving of the president's job performance. Trump's rating is at its worst on the cost of living and other economic issues since launching his deeply unpopular war against Iran in February, which...

US Weekly - 22 hours 30 min ago
Former New York City mayor and President Donald Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani is reportedly in critical condition at an unnamed Florida hospital. "Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he's fighting with that same level of strength as we speak," the politician's spokesperson, Ted Goodman, told multiple outlets, including The New York Times , on Sunday, May 3. While the former mayor's spokesperson declined to specify...

CNBC - 22 hours 38 min ago
Asia markets were set to open mixed Monday as investors assess news of President Donald Trump's plan to "free" ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz.

Sky News - 23 hours 1 min ago
New York City's former mayor Rudy Giuliani is in critical condition in hospital, Donald Trump has said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

The Guardian - 23 hours 59 min ago
US president's post follows flurry of mixed signals including concern Tehran had not paid big enough price' Donald Trump has announced that the US will "guide" ships trapped by the Iran war out of the Gulf through the strait of Hormuz on Monday morning, and claimed his representatives were having "very positive" discussions with Iran. Trump wrote on his social media site that the operation, called "Project Freedom", would be a humanitarian gesture "on behalf of...