
The Guardian - 1 hour 39 min ago
US National Park Service lawyers cite materials that will be installed to make heavily fortified' facility Donald Trump's administration is arguing that a judge's order to halt construction of a $400m White House ballroom creates a security risk for the US president as his team asks a federal appeals court to pause the ruling. In a motion filed on Friday, US National Park Service (NPS) lawyers say that the federal judge's order to suspend construction of the new facility is "threatening...

The Independent - 2 hours 25 min ago
A federal judge ruled the president needs congressional approval to continue his White House ballroom project...

Mother Jones - 3 hours 13 min ago
On Friday, President Donald Trump released his budget proposal for the fiscal year 2027. Surprisingly, given the cuts that would be necessary to fund the $1.5 trillion the Trump administration is asking for military spending, the budget also included over $500 million more funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, for a total of […]...

NY Post - 3 hours 27 min ago
President Donald Trump showed disgust for the Los Angeles homeless services agency, saying it had an "abysmal record" while slashing federal funding to it.

The Raw Story - 3 hours 53 min ago
Donald Trump's administration has seemingly changed tack with international diplomacy and struck deals with a series of the world's most brutal leaders, per a report. Records from the White House, seen by the New York Times , show that American diplomats are straining to strike deals with countries across the world and have put everything on the negotiating table as a result. Included in the possible negotiations were offers to "pay foreign security forces, ease visa restrictions or...

NY Post - 6 hours 7 min ago
President Donald Trump has launched another attack on the New York Times after the paper had to run an embarrassing correction after misidentifying NATO in its print edition headline. "The Failing New York Times, whose lack of credibility, and their constant Fake News attacks on your favorite President, ME, has caused its circulation to...

The Hill - 6 hours 13 min ago
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Friday dismissed President Trump's executive order targeting eligibility and transfer rules in college sports as "theater." "Trump's college sports Executive Order is theater, not a fix," Blumenthal wrote in a post on social platform X. "Reform requires Congressional legislation I have put commonsense bills & proposals on the table...

Fox News - 7 hours 17 min ago
Linda McMahon discusses President Donald Trump's directive to fire herself by dismantling the Department of Education, calling out critics driven by "Trump Derangement Syndrome."...

The Onion - 7 hours 17 min ago
President Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general after growing frustrated with her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and what he perceived as her lack of aggressiveness in prosecuting his political opponents. What do you think? The post Pam Bondi Fired As Attorney General appeared first on The Onion .

The Independent - 7 hours 24 min ago
The president's company trademarked the Trump name for use in airports before Florida passed the renaming bill...

The Hill - 7 hours 29 min ago
The former daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump posted on her Instagram for the first time since Tiger Woods' arrest.

NBC News - 7 hours 45 min ago
TAIPEI, Taiwan Before President Donald Trump arrives in China last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping will have another visitor: a Taiwan opposition leader, who...

NBC News - 7 hours 53 min ago
As the partial government shutdown enters day 50, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a presidential memo to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees, including more than 35,000 Coast Guard, FEMA and cybersecurity workers. They have not been paid since Feb. 14 because of the shutdown that centers on a battle over immigration enforcement funding.

The Hill - 8 hours 2 min ago
Former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday said the recent attacks by Iran on two U.S. fighter jets has likely placed President Trump in "panic mode." The Iranian military downed an F-15E Strike Eagle over the Islamic Republic's airspace on Friday marking the first known instance of Tehran shooting down a U.S. jet...

The Guardian - 8 hours 44 min ago
The US president seems to have turned his attention to Cuba in recent weeks, saying that it was 'next'. Officials from both countries have reportedly been in negotiations since February however the content of the discussions remains unclear. The Guardian spoke with professor emeritus of international relations Dr Philip Brenner about what the US might really want with the Island Continue reading...

The Guardian - 9 hours 17 min ago
The president's son-in-law is acting as an envoy even as he looks to secure billions for his company from foreign governments After Donald Trump returned to the White House, his son-in-law and former senior adviser Jared Kushner declined to take a job in the new administration and instead planned to focus on running his Miami-based private equity firm. Kushner said he would also forgo raising more money for his company while Trump was in office, to avoid any appearance of a conflict. But since...

The Guardian - 9 hours 17 min ago
Despite hostile rhetoric Trump let a Russian ship break his blockade could it herald a Venezuela-style outcome? When a sanctioned Russian oil tanker, the Anatoly Kolodkin, docked at Cuba's Matanzas oil terminal on Tuesday, unloading 700,000 barrels of crude , it was not immediately clear why the ship had been allowed to pass through Donald Trump's oil blockade. In January, the US president had proclaimed on social media: "THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA ZERO!" yet...

Sky News - 9 hours 43 min ago
Donald Trump has asked for $152m (£115m) to reopen the former Alcatraz jail so it can become a "state-of-the-art" prison.

The Guardian - 10 hours 17 min ago
In the fifth week of the war, Trump continues contradicting himself on its objectives and how Americans are affected When Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury alongside Israel on 28 February, his administration had settled on a set of stated, and broad, objectives: destroy Iran's missiles, eliminate its navy, prevent a nuclear weapon. Over a month later those objectives have multiplied, contracted and contradicted each other. Continue reading...

The Guardian - 11 hours 17 min ago
The Trump administration takes pleasure in deploying dysphemism to describe the killing of Iranians On 23 March, Donald Trump said that if things didn't go to his liking in Iran, "we just keep bombing our little hearts out". A week later the US president told journalists on Air Force One: "You never know with Iran because we negotiate with them and then we always have to blow them up." On 4 March, Pete Hegseth squirmed in pleasure as he described "death and destruction from...

The Independent - 11 hours 27 min ago
Iran's atomic agency says an airstrike has hit near its Bushehr nuclear facility, killing a security guard and damaging a support building...

ABC News - 12 hours 19 min ago
Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies...

The Guardian - 15 hours 17 min ago
Royal visitors have long been popular in the US, and Charles has decades of diplomacy under his belt. But can soft power save the special relationship? What's the worst that could happen when King Charles visits Donald Trump in Washington at the end of this month? And what will be the best outcome from Keir Starmer's point of view, since it is the prime minister who directed the visit to go ahead in the hope of improving our battered, supposedly special relationship? While the relationship...

The Guardian - 15 hours 17 min ago
The brutalisation of global norms by figures like Pete Hegseth must be seen as an ethical issue. It's a fight against chaos, and all major religions must play a role That combative old hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers, is not much heard these days, though it was once a favourite with church congregations and school assemblies. Written in 1865 by Sabine Baring-Gould, an English clergyman and religious scholar, its belligerent refrain urges the faithful on to battle, victory and conquest: "Onward...