
The Hill - 12 hours 32 min ago
President Trump will sign an executive order centered on medical research from the White House on Saturday morning. The event comes a day after Trump gave remarks in Phoenix focused on his agenda and courting voters ahead of the midterms, garnering the president a standing ovation. It also comes after the administration unveiled its fiscal...

NBC News - 12 hours 55 min ago
Watch live coverage as President Donald Trump holds an executive order signing at the White House.

The Hill - 13 hours 26 min ago
President Trump warned late Friday that the U.S. could strike Iran again if the Middle Eastern nation's leaders do not agree to his terms before the temporary ceasefire ends next week. The president told News Nation, The Hill's sister network, on board Air Force One that if no deal is reached by Wednesday's deadline, "we'll...

The Raw Story - 13 hours 42 min ago
President Donald Trump has made the war with Iran much trickier after prematurely declaring victory, a political analyst has warned. Trump took to Truth Social and made a series of posts regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. One post reads , "President Xi is very happy that the Strait of Hormuz is open and/or rapidly opening. Our meeting in China will be a special one and, potentially, Historic. I look forward to being with President Xi Much will be accomplished! President DONALD...

The Independent - 14 hours 20 min ago
Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, warning that it would continue to block transit as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect...

The Guardian - 14 hours 30 min ago
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces. On 7 April, right before Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran, traders bet $950m that oil prices would...

The Guardian - 15 hours 30 min ago
Silvia Salis, the leftwing mayor of Genoa and former Olympian, is described as a breath of fresh air' and potential unifier It has been a turbulent month in Italian politics. A failed referendum on a judicial overhaul pierced prime minister Giorgia Meloni's aura of invincibility, triggering government resignations and leaving her scrambling to restore credibility. At the same time, her once special relationship with Donald Trump has frayed after the US president publicly scolded her this...

The Guardian - 15 hours 30 min ago
Trump's attacks on Pope Leo XIV polarizing the diverse community as faith and politics come to a head Maryellen Lewicki meets once a week for Bible study with a group of Catholic women in Decatur, Georgia, in a space they try to keep clear of politics. But Donald Trump's name arises nonetheless. "We have one person that we pray for during the course of the week," she said. "What my friend said is that she prays for the president every day, that God will remove that hard heart...

The Guardian - 17 hours 30 min ago
Exiled leader to revive push for change amid US backing of Delcy Rodr guez and delays to democratic transition Venezuela's opposition leader, Mar a Corina Machado, will seek to revive her push for political change with a rally in Madrid on Saturday, having found herself sidelined by Donald Trump after the abduction of the president Nicol s Maduro. "Venezuela will be free," the Nobel peace prize winner insisted in an interview on the eve of this weekend's demonstration in the Puerta...

Sky News - 18 hours 15 min ago
Donald Trump has promised some "very interesting documents" related to UFOs will be released by the US defence department "very, very soon".

The Guardian - 18 hours 30 min ago
The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable. Environmentalists are now being seen for the pragmatists that they are Donald Trump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone else alive. Fossil fuel companies bankrolled his presidential campaign to stop the transition in its tracks. But when you back a volatile narcissist, unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time, you shouldn't expect to control the outcome. It's not that the...

The Guardian - 19 hours 22 min ago
Iranian parliamentary speaker also says passage through waterway will depend on Iranian authorisation and accuses Donald Trump of multiple falsehoods Iran says strait of Hormuz completely open' to commercial vessels as oil prices fall Britain will make "a wide-ranging military contribution" to an international mission to protect shipping in the strait of Hormuz trade waterway, the UK ambassador to the US has said. Christian Turner 's commitment comes amid long-running concerns over...

The Guardian - 20 hours 30 min ago
The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldn't finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose Lance Johnson voted for Donald Trump three times. Now he is feeling buyer's remorse. "I haven't been too happy with the third time around," said the 47-year-old contractor, sitting at a bar in Crescent Springs, Kentucky. "We're supposed to not start any new wars. Prices were...

New York Times - 21 hours 29 min ago
Prime Minister Pedro S nchez of Spain addressing Parliament in March.

NBC News - 21 hours 59 min ago
The president's lawsuit, filed this year, alleges that the IRS failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the unauthorized release of his tax documents.

Deadline Hollywood - 23 hours 14 min ago
Thwarted today in what looked to be a Donald Trump approved $6.2 billion local station mega-deal to merge with Tegna, Nexstar are vowing to march forward in the courts. At the same time, New York’s Attorney General Letitia James, one of the leading advocates to stop the Nexstar-Tegna combo, is promising to continue to stop […]...

The Guardian - 23 hours 30 min ago
Gina Rinehart, who's been called Australia's female Donald Trump', has long fought claims from the family of her father's business partner as well as her own children Full Story podcast: How Gina Rinehart lost hundreds of millions of dollars in court Australia's richest person is reeling after a landmark court decision found her company must pay royalties worth hundreds of millions of dollars to a rival mining dynasty. Gina Rinehart, a multibillionaire with political connections...

The Guardian - 23 hours 31 min ago
This live blog is now closed. US Congress passes 10-day extension of surveillance law amid Republican infighting What is Fisa, and why does it allow no-warrant survellance? Sign up for the Breaking News US email In more CDC news, Donald Trump has selected Erica Schwartz to lead the troubled health agency, bringing to an end a months-long search for a permanent director. Schwartz served as the deputy surgeon general during Trump's first term . But before she can officially take over, the president's...