
Variety - 1 hour 20 min ago
Robert De Niro took a thinly veiled dig at Donald Trump at the opening night of Tribeca Festival on Wednesday. The Oscar-winner used his time at the podium to talk about Tribeca’s mission as a festival formed in the wake of 9/11 to shine a spotlight on a part of the city that had been […]...

The Guardian - 1 hour 31 min ago
Conservation groups say work has begun in protected coastal area, while prime minister insists project will bring jobs and investment Protests in Albania over a proposed luxury resort backed by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are set to intensify after opponents rejected an offer from the country's prime minister "to discuss solutions". Thousands took to the streets of Tirana for a third straight day on Wednesday, some of them brandishing inflatable flamingos in a nod to...

NBC News - 1 hour 45 min ago
President Donald Trump nominated his acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, to be the country's permanent top prosecutor TKTK, Trump said TKTK ADD TRUMP / WH ANNOUNCEMENT TKTK Blanche took over as acting attorney general in early April after Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose deputy Blanche had been.

ABC News - 2 hours 6 min ago
President Donald Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal attorney who has aggressively pursued the Republican president's agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role...

The Hill - 2 hours 30 min ago
Several Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers following a report that a White House official intervened to grant a $620 million Pentagon loan to a company linked to President Trump's eldest son. "We write to demand a full explanation for what appears to be an egregious example of Trump administration corruption involving the White House delivering...

Huffington Post - 3 hours 20 min ago
As of Wednesday evening, Pratt sits in second place in Los Angeles' primary election behind incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.

ABC News - 3 hours 22 min ago
President Donald Trump, during a dinner, announced his intent to nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the post permanently, according to two sources.

NBC News - 4 hours 17 sec ago
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday the Justice Department was "not moving forward" with the $1.8 billion fund.

Daily Signal - 4 hours 8 min ago
Donald Trump wasn’t just playing golf those four years out of office. In this segment from the latest episode of “Signal Sitdown,” former press secretary Sean Spicer goes into the “wilderness years” and his new book on President Donald Trump’s historic first year back in the White House. Bradley Devlin: We're here to talk about...

The Guardian - 4 hours 31 min ago
Vote sends resolution to the US Senate, where the chamber must promptly take up the measure under law key US politics stories from Wednesday, 3 June at a glance The US House of Representatives delivered a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump over his war on Iran on Wednesday, as representatives backed a move to force him to seek approval from Congress or withdraw US forces. The House voted 215 to 208 in favor of the war powers resolution, as four Republicans voted with Democrats. The dissident Republicans...

TMZ - 4 hours 43 min ago
President Donald Trump treated an Oval Office policy question like batting practice ... taking a few swings at CNN's Kaitlan Collins instead of the issue she raised. The fireworks started when POTUS was pressed about a proposed $1.8B…...

NBC News - 4 hours 49 min ago
The partisan warrior named to serve as the country's top intelligence official is part of a small circle of trusted allies who won President Donald Trump's confidence by taking swift action against prominent Democratic critics of the president, according to three people with knowledge of Trump's decision.

US Weekly - 4 hours 57 min ago
President Donald Trump teased that the UFC arena placed on the White House lawn has the potential to become a permanent fixture. "Many don't know that in Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower — 1889 it was built — was supposed to be taken down immediately after the World's Fair," Trump, 79, said in a TikTok video on Tuesday, June 2. "And then they said, 'You know, we sort of like it, let's leave it up a little bit longer.'" Trump explained that Paris "never...

Yard Barker - 6 hours 2 min ago
Sean Strickland already has his plane ticket for a trip to Washington next week. President Donald Trump has said he might leave the UFC octagon on the White House lawn now that it has been constructed for Freedom 250'.

UPI - 6 hours 12 min ago
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 215-208 on Wednesday to pass a measure directing President Donald Trump to remove U.S. troops from Iran.

The Guardian - 7 hours 59 min ago
Stunning rebuke to president as lawmakers vote 215-208 for measure forcing him to seek congressional approval The US House of Representatives delivered a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump over his war on Iran on Wednesday, as representatives backed a move to force him to seek approval from Congress or withdraw US forces. The House voted 215 to 208 in favor of the war powers resolution, as four Republicans voted with Democrats. Continue reading...

The Guardian - 8 hours 2 min ago
President likens South Lawn setup to Eiffel Tower Area will stage Freedom 250 fight card on 14 June Donald Trump has floated the idea of permanently keeping the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) arena that is being constructed on the White House South Lawn for a series of fights later this month. In a video posted on his official TikTok account on Tuesday, the president likened the structure to the Eiffel Tower. Continue reading...

NBC News - 8 hours 14 min ago
The House offered a rare rebuke to President Donald Trump, passing a Democrat-led measure to end his war with Iran over objections from Republican leadership.

Yard Barker - 8 hours 19 min ago
The New York Knicks are back in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. The legendary Madison Square Garden has waited nearly three decades to host another NBA Finals game, and the next one will feature quite the high-profile guest.

The Guardian - 8 hours 31 min ago
This week the bipartisan furor over Donald Trump's $1.8bn slush fund escalated to the point that the administration balked, saying they are no longer moving forward with it. But Robert Reich , a Guardian columnist and former US secretary of labor, says the fund, and specifically, the additional detail of the settlement giving Trump and his family immunity from future IRS audits, are the essence of corruption and if Democrats can successfully connect that corruption to the affordability crisis...

Buzz Feed - 8 hours 35 min ago
Sigh. Here we go again. View Entire Post ›...

The Guardian - 8 hours 52 min ago
Fears that push for ballroom spending could jeopardize $70bn funding for immigration enforcement Senate Republicans on Wednesday formally dropped their attempt to spend $1bn on security improvements for Donald Trump's White House ballroom, as it became clear the president's demand for the money could jeopardize long-term funding for immigration enforcement. The Senate judiciary committee had last month included the spending on security for the new ballroom in a broader measure that would...

The Guardian - 8 hours 56 min ago
Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be influencing' policy Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday making it easier to fire 8,000 of some of the best-paid government workers, part of a broader effort to overhaul the federal workforce. The order, released by the White House and the office of personnel management (OPM), strips job protections from a mostly senior group of federal workers earning up to almost $200,000 a year and...

Fox News - 9 hours 24 min ago
President Donald Trump is expected at Madison Square Garden on Monday as the Knicks host their first NBA Finals game in 27 years against the Victor Wembanyama-led Spurs.