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1281 articles shownof 1292 totalLast updated 2026-08-08 06:00 UTC
us politics 6 1h ago 4 min read

Fired Miami Prosecutor Sues DOJ, Says Old Anti-Trump Blog Posts Got Him Axed in Three Hours

Will Rosenzweig was two weeks from trying a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud case when a conservative influencer resurfaced his years-old, defunct blog and tagged DOJ officials. He was fired within three hours, and he's now suing, claiming the government can't punish a citizen for political speech made before he ever took the job.

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us politics 6 1h ago 3 min read

Trump Tells U.S. Attorney Pirro to Reverse Course on Dropped Reflecting Pool Case

President Trump publicly demanded U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro reconsider her decision to drop vandalism charges against a man accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Pirro's own office told a court the damage was caused by a bad liner installation, not sabotage, and a judge dismissed the case Thursday. Trump wants a redo anyway. The physical evidence and the prosecutor's own filing say this wasn't vandalism. The president disagrees. Someone's wrong here, and it isn't the guy who got his charges dropped.

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us economy 7 2h ago 4 min read

Trump Announces $2 Billion in Mining Deals and $180 Million for Mining Schools

President Trump rolled out more than $2 billion in federal financing for critical minerals projects and over $180 million for mining education at a State Department event on Friday, August 7. The goal: cut US dependence on China for materials that power everything from fighter jets to EV batteries. The math is real and the China problem is real, but building mines and training engineers takes years, not press conferences.

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Iran's Top Negotiator Calls Trump's Iran Strategy "Theater Diplomacy" as Hormuz Traffic Stays Near Zero

Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf publicly mocked Trump's on-again, off-again strike threats as "theater diplomacy on loop." Meanwhile actual shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed to almost nothing, and oil prices are climbing on fears the region's key chokepoints stay closed indefinitely.

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us politics 7 7h ago 4 min read

Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Parts of 1934 Gun Control Law After Trump Tax Bill Zeroed Out the Fees

A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that registration requirements for suppressors and short-barreled firearms are unconstitutional now that the 2025 tax bill cut the underlying tax to zero. The ruling is stayed for a week to let the Justice Department appeal, and it only applies to the named plaintiffs for now.

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us energy 7 8h ago 4 min read

Trump Imposes 15% Tariff and Price Floor on Polysilicon, Solar Stocks Jump on Wall Street

Trump signed a proclamation putting a 15% tariff and minimum import prices on polysilicon and solar products, set to take effect December 4. Wall Street analysts say First Solar is the biggest winner while companies buying imported panels could get squeezed. It's a Section 232 national security move aimed squarely at China.

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us politics 8 9h ago 4 min read

ICE Has Spent $525 Million on Surveillance Tech Since Trump Took Office, and Some of It Is Aimed at Online Critics

ICE has spent over $525 million on surveillance technology since President Trump's second term began, including contracts to monitor and unmask people who post criticism of the agency online, according to the Wall Street Journal. DHS says it's targeting credible threats against agents, but at least one case shows the government subpoenaing a Reddit user over posts that read like political speech, not threats of violence.

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us defense 6 10h ago 3 min read

Uganda's Parliament Approves Troops for Trump's Gaza Stabilization Force

Uganda's parliament voted Thursday to let the country deploy soldiers to Gaza if the International Stabilization Force outlined in President Trump's ceasefire plan actually gets off the ground. Only a handful of countries have committed so far, the civilian administration for Gaza still doesn't exist, and nobody's saying when or if troops actually show up.

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us politics 7 15h ago 4 min read

Appeals Court Blocks Trump's $400 Million White House Ballroom, Says He Needed Congress's OK

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that Trump's administration cannot keep building its $400 million White House ballroom without congressional approval. The ruling pauses construction for 14 days while the administration decides whether to take it to the Supreme Court. This isn't about whether the ballroom is a good idea. It's about who owns the White House and who gets to authorize tearing pieces of it down.

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us politics 7 16h ago 3 min read

Colorado's Jared Polis Grants Clemency to Tina Peters, Convicted Election-Equipment Tamperer, After Trump Pressure Campaign

Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted in 2024 for granting unauthorized access to voting machines, walked free June 1, 2026, after Colorado Governor Jared Polis granted clemency over objections from prosecutors and his own clemency board. She served about 20 months of a nearly nine-year sentence and is now touring MAGA media pushing the same unproven fraud claims that helped convict her.

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us politics 7 16h ago 4 min read

Trump Pressures Thune to Kill Filibuster for Voter ID Bill, Senate GOP Says Votes Don't Exist

Trump is publicly hammering his own Senate Majority Leader John Thune over the SAVE America Act, a voter ID and proof-of-citizenship bill, and demanding he nuke the filibuster to pass it. Problem: Republicans don't have 50 votes for that, and Thune knows it. This is a real fight with a real math problem, not a messaging exercise.

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us politics 6 19h ago 4 min read

Trump-Backed Congressman Andy Ogles Loses Tennessee GOP Primary to Charlie Hatcher

Tennessee's redrawn congressional maps produced a genuine upset Thursday: Rep. Andy Ogles lost his GOP primary despite President Trump's endorsement. Marsha Blackburn cruised to the governor nomination and Bill Hagerty faces no real Senate threat, but the new maps also set up a real fight in Memphis.

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us defense 7 1d ago 4 min read

CIA Sets Up Secret Cuba Task Force as Trump's Pressure Campaign Escalates

Politico reports the CIA has created a dedicated task force and increased covert agents and surveillance flights inside Cuba, part of a Trump administration campaign already running on oil blockades, sanctions and a $100 million aid offer tied to reforms. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has not budged, and neither the CIA, White House nor Pentagon will confirm details. The New York Times independently confirmed the task force exists, but no U.S. official will say publicly what it's actually doing or whether military action is genuinely on the table.

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us economy 7 1d ago 4 min read

Carney Calls US Trade Talks Nasty After Trump Trashes Canadian Leadership

Trump called Canadians nasty in a Las Vegas speech. Carney threw the word back at him Thursday while Canadian negotiators sat down with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington. Twelve days out from threatened 50% tariffs, both sides are still talking but nobody's blinking.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Has Been Repeatedly Calling Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Since His May Swearing In

Trump spent years publicly attacking Jerome Powell for not cutting rates. Now he's on the phone repeatedly with new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, calling him fantastic and brilliant, and nobody in the White House is denying it. Fed independence isn't a formality, it's the thing that's supposed to stop presidents from leaning on the guy who sets interest rates.

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us energy 7 1d ago 4 min read

RWE Takes $1.22 Billion From Taxpayers to Drop Offshore Wind, Pushing Trump Buyback Total to Nearly $4 Billion

The Interior Department just paid German energy giant RWE $1.22 billion to abandon offshore wind leases off New York, California and Louisiana, the fifth such deal and the largest yet. RWE is plowing the money into a Louisiana LNG terminal and gas peaker plants instead. New York and California are already suing over earlier versions of this same deal.

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us politics 7 1d ago 3 min read

Trump Set to Sign Executive Orders Targeting Birth Tourism Citizenship, Axios Reports

President Trump plans to sign two executive orders Thursday denying automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. through commercial birth tourism, according to Axios. The orders would also target citizenship for children of some foreign diplomats and potentially future births in U.S. territories, though no official data exists on how many people actually do this or what it costs taxpayers.

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us politics 6 1d ago 3 min read

Report: About 90% of Trump's Ambassador Picks Are Donors or Political Loyalists

The Washington Post reports the Trump administration has filled roughly 90% of its ambassadorships with campaign donors and political allies, far above the historical norm. Patronage in ambassador picks isn't new, but the scale here is a real break from decades of practice mixing career diplomats with occasional political picks.

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Iran Tells Gulf States: Stop Trump or We Hit Your Oil and Water Plants Too

Iran warned Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Pakistan's army chief that it will strike Gulf oil, power and water infrastructure if the US resumes attacks on Iranian territory, according to Reuters sources. Trump agreed on August 2 to hold off on strikes contingent on reaching a deal. Meanwhile the UN says Iran has executed at least 56 people since March, including 27 tied to protests, even as it threatens the region.

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us defense 7 1d ago 3 min read

Trump Administration Wavers on Patriot Missile License for Ukraine After Ankara NATO Pledge

Weeks after promising Ukraine a license to build Patriot interceptors at the NATO summit in Ankara, the Trump administration appears to be walking that pledge back, according to Kyiv Post. With US Patriot stockpiles reportedly drained after the conflict with Iran, Ukraine faces a bare cupboard heading into a winter Russia looks set to make brutal on purpose. Meanwhile Russia's own math is getting uglier: State Duma elections next month put pressure on Vladimir Putin to either announce a new mobilization wave or keep faking momentum with missile barrages.

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us economy 7 1d ago 4 min read

SoftBank Gave $50 Million to Trump's Library. Two Months Later, It Got a Federal Land Deal for a Massive Data Center.

SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump's presidential library foundation in January 2026. In March, its subsidiary announced a deal to lease federal land in Portsmouth, Ohio for a huge AI data center project. Three Democratic lawmakers want answers on the timing, and SoftBank says the donation was business as usual.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Vows Prison for Munitions 'Leakers' After Report of Clash With Hegseth Over Weapons Stockpiles

Trump denied a Washington Post report that he confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over munitions shortages, insisting the US has massive stockpiles and threatening leakers with long prison terms. Pentagon documents and a CSIS analysis show Patriot interceptor stocks down 55 to 65 percent since fighting with Iran began, and the administration has asked Congress for $67 billion in emergency weapons funding.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

FBI Ran Secret Probe Into Whether Trump Fired Comey On Russia's Orders, Declassified Memos Show

The White House released FBI memos on Wednesday showing agents opened a criminal investigation, codenamed Oxferd Comma, into whether Trump was acting as a Russian asset when he fired James Comey in 2017. A White House official says the FBI's own evidence at the time had already debunked collusion, meaning agents kept the probe alive anyway.

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us economy 4 1d ago 3 min read

Left-Leaning Think Tank Puts Price Tag on Trump Mass Deportation Plan: $2,358 Per Taxpayer

The Economic Policy Institute built a calculator estimating mass deportation would cost the average taxpayer $2,358, and Axios ran with it. The number comes from a group with an openly progressive bent that opposes the policy on economic grounds, not a neutral government scorekeeper, so treat it as one side's estimate, not gospel.

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us politics 5 2d ago 2 min read

Trump Has Faced Nearly 20 Threat Incidents Since Taking Office in 2017, Including Three Assassination Attempts

A tally of threat-related incidents against Donald Trump shows nearly 20 since he first took office in 2017, including three assassination attempts, according to Fox News. That makes him the most targeted U.S. president or candidate on record, spanning two campaigns and both presidencies, and it raises real questions about Secret Service performance that go beyond partisan point-scoring.

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us energy 6 2d ago 3 min read

Study Says Climate Change Fueled Canada's Wildfires. Trump Blames Forest Mismanagement. Both May Be Right.

A new analysis says climate change made Canada's 2026 wildfire season more likely and more severe. Trump says decades of bad forest management are the real problem. The data backs the climate study, but Canada's own officials have also flagged mismanagement as a factor, so this isn't an either-or.

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us defense 7 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Confronted Hegseth at Camp David Over Munitions Shortage, Washington Post Reports; Pentagon Calls It Fake

The Washington Post reports President Trump pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Camp David after learning US missile stockpiles were far more depleted than he'd been told, a shortage that reportedly factored into his decision to hold off on a bigger strike on Iran. The White House and Pentagon deny the confrontation happened at all, calling it fabricated. Either way, the underlying stockpile numbers are backed by separate Reuters reporting and aren't in dispute.

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us defense 7 2d ago 4 min read

CBO: Trump-Class Battleship Fleet Would Cost $275 Billion for 15 Ships

The Congressional Budget Office says the Navy's planned Trump-class battleships will run $23.4 billion for the first ship and $18 billion each after that, totaling $275 billion for 15 vessels through 2056. That's more than the cost of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy's largest aircraft carrier, and it lands on top of a shipbuilding industry that the Government Accountability Office already says can't deliver ships on time or on budget.

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us health 6 2d ago 2 min read

Trump Administration Moves to Shut Down Kentucky Organ Donation Group Over Safety Failures

Federal officials are moving to shut down a Kentucky organ donation organization, citing safety failures in how the group handled potential organ donors, according to AP News. The exact nature of the failures and the agency's next steps have not been detailed in reporting so far.

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us economy 6 2d ago 3 min read

Trump's Antitrust Pick Adam Candeub Testifies on Fate of Google and Apple Cases

Adam Candeub, Trump's nominee to run the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, testified before the Senate Wednesday on whether he'd keep pressing the government's landmark cases against Google's search dominance and Apple's App Store rules. Candeub is a longtime Big Tech critic who wants Section 230 narrowed, which means confirmation could shift how hard Washington leans on the tech giants for years.

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us economy 7 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Set to Announce 15% Tariff on Polysilicon, Price Floors on Solar Products as Soon as Thursday

The Trump administration is preparing to unveil a 15% tariff on polysilicon derivatives plus minimum import prices on solar wafers, cells and panels, according to Reuters. The move follows a year-long Section 232 national security probe aimed at blocking China's grip on the material that feeds both solar panels and computer chips.

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us economy 8 2d ago 4 min read

CBP Confirms $100 Billion Refunded on Trump's Struck-Down Tariffs, Just as New Ones Face a 25-State Lawsuit

Customs officials told a federal court Tuesday they've refunded $100 billion of the $166 billion collected under Trump's illegal IEEPA tariffs, about 60% of the total. At the same time, 25 states are suing to block a new round of tariffs they say is just the old scheme wearing a forced-labor costume.

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us politics 7 2d ago 3 min read

Warren Demands Answers From Lutnick on UAE Chip Access After Trump Crypto Deal

Elizabeth Warren wants Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to explain why the UAE got easier access to advanced U.S. chip technology weeks after UAE-linked entities poured $500 million into Trump's family crypto venture. No evidence has surfaced that one caused the other, but the timeline alone deserves scrutiny.

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us politics 8 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Media Launches $100,000-a-Month Feed of Trump's Own Posts to Wall Street Firms

Trump Media and Technology Group rolled out Truth API this past weekend, selling investment firms low-latency access to posts from Trump's Truth Social account for reportedly up to $100,000 a month. The president profits personally from a product built entirely on his own market-moving statements, and no existing conflict-of-interest law appears to stop it.

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us politics 5 2d ago 4 min read

Trump-Backed Masterson Wins Kansas GOP Primary; Holscher Beats Kelly's Pick for Democratic Nod

Ty Masterson won the Kansas Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday with roughly 43% of the vote in a seven-way field, riding a Trump endorsement past three serious rivals. On the Democratic side, Cindy Holscher beat Gov. Laura Kelly's chosen successor, Ethan Corson, setting up a November matchup that pits MAGA-aligned conservatism against economic populism.

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us economy 7 3d ago 3 min read

Lockheed Martin Negotiates Deals for U.S.-Mined Scandium and Germanium After Trump Pressure Campaign

Lockheed Martin has a tentative agreement with NioCorp Developments for 15 metric tons of U.S.-mined scandium a year, about a quarter of global demand, and is negotiating germanium supply with Teck Resources and 5N Plus, according to Reuters. It is the clearest sign yet that Trump's push to force defense contractors off Chinese minerals is actually moving contracts, even though American mining capacity is nowhere close to matching China's.

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us politics 6 3d ago 4 min read

Man Carrying Armor-Piercing Ammo Arrested Near Trump's California Golf Course

Deputies arrested Jeanine John Taele, 38, at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday after federal agents spotted him photographing the grounds and appearing to track security operations ahead of Trump's visit. A search of his home turned up an illegally modified rifle, body armor, and notebooks with what authorities called concerning statements. No credible threat has been identified, but the case is now with prosecutors and the investigation is active.

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us politics 6 3d ago 3 min read

Tom DeLay Says the Man Who Wrote Trump's TV Deregulation Law Is About to Break It

The FCC votes Thursday, August 6, on Chairman Brendan Carr's plan to kill the 39% cap on how many U.S. households one company can own TV stations in. Tom DeLay, the Republican who put that exact number into federal law in 2004, says Carr has zero authority to do this by regulation alone. He's right that the cap is statutory. Whether that stops the FCC is a different question.

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us tech 5 3d ago 4 min read

Five Democratic Senators Say Trump Administration's AI Security Moves Are Too Erratic to Trust

Senators Gillibrand, Schiff, Warner, Coons and Kelly sent a letter Monday blasting the White House for flip-flopping between doing nothing and overreacting on AI security, citing the Hugging Face breach and an 18-day secret standoff over Anthropic's models. Meanwhile, Congress is running out of days to pass any AI or kids' online safety law before the 2026 midterms freeze everything.

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us tech 7 3d ago 4 min read

DeepSeek Undercuts Rivals on Price as Trump Team Drafts Ban on Chinese Data Center Gear

DeepSeek's new V4-Flash model is running more than 100 times cheaper per test than Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, according to Artificial Analysis, showing China's price war on AI isn't slowing down. Meanwhile the Trump administration is drafting an FCC ban on new Chinese optical transceivers in US data centers, aiming to stop a Huawei-style infrastructure problem before it starts.

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il defense 8 3d ago 4 min read

Israel Kills Dozens in Gaza Strikes Days After Trump Called Hamas Deal 'Historic'

Since Trump announced his July 30 disarmament plan and called it a historic breakthrough, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 25 to 26 Palestinians over a single weekend, the deadliest stretch in weeks. Israel says it won't pull troops out until Hamas fully disarms, and Hamas hasn't given up a single weapon yet.

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us politics 5 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Rips Jeanine Pirro for Dropping Botched Vandalism Case, Doesn't Fire Her

Trump called his own U.S. Attorney "disappointed" and said she "choked" after her office dropped charges against a 67-year-old Olympian falsely accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The damage turned out to be a botched $14 million contractor job, not vandalism. Trump aired his fury publicly but stopped short of firing her after a White House meeting Monday.

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us politics 5 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Heads to California and Nevada as Just 32% Approve His Handling of the Economy

Trump is set to speak at a Rancho Palos Verdes fundraiser Tuesday and a Las Vegas economic event Wednesday, trying to flip the script on an issue where an AP-NORC poll shows only 32% approve of his economic record. The trip is also a setup to swing at Gavin Newsom, but the polling numbers Trump is trying to outrun are real and won't disappear because he changed zip codes.

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us finance 7 3d ago 3 min read

Trump Media Now Sells Millisecond Access to Trump's Truth Social Posts, Priced Up to $100,000 a Month

Trump Media & Technology Group launched Truth API, a paid feed that delivers President Trump's Truth Social posts to trading firms milliseconds before the general public sees them, according to Axios. Congressional Democrats want the SEC, CFTC and Office of Government Ethics to investigate; the company says it's just selling speed, not exclusive content.

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us finance 6 3d ago 4 min read

Copper Floods US Ports as Traders Bet on a Trump Tariff That Still Hasn't Come

More than 200,000 metric tons of copper hit US shores in July, the biggest monthly haul in at least 12 years, as traders race to beat a possible Trump tariff on refined copper. Washington still hasn't decided anything. The stockpile now sits above 1 million tons while the rest of the world runs short.

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us defense 8 3d ago 4 min read

MBS Told Trump to Slow Down on Iran Before Trump Called Off the Strikes

Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman warned Trump by phone that a major U.S. strike on Iran could trigger retaliation against Gulf oil facilities, according to the Saudi Press Agency and Axios. Trump says that call, and similar pressure from other allies, is why he called off a planned attack over the weekend and opted for a deal instead.

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us politics 6 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Blasts Pirro After Her Office Drops Reflecting Pool Vandalism Charges Over Botched Contractor Work

Jeanine Pirro's office dismissed felony and misdemeanor charges against four people accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after new documents showed a contractor botched the installation. Trump says Pirro "choked" and won't say if her job is safe. The case is now a live test of how much authority the president has to remove a Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney over a call he doesn't like.

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us defense 8 4d ago 3 min read

Trump Calls Iran Deal 'Last Chance' as Tehran Denies Any Talks Are Happening

Trump says Iran is negotiating right now to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says that's false, no talks are underway. Meanwhile the yen is holding most of its gains from last week's rare joint intervention by Tokyo and Washington, and the dollar is still nursing losses after the Fed held rates.

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us politics 7 4d ago 3 min read

ICE Detentions Hit 46,000 in July, a Second Trump-Term Record

Internal DHS figures show ICE booked over 46,000 people into custody in July, averaging 1,500 a day and topping June's previous high of 43,000. The surge follows a spring slowdown after ICE killed two American citizens in Minneapolis, and comes as the agency faces White House pressure to hit 2,000 daily arrests.

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us economy 8 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Dusts Off a 1930 Smoot-Hawley Law to Hit Canada With 50% Tariffs

On July 20, President Trump signed three proclamations invoking Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act, a provision no president has ever used, to slap 50% tariffs on Canadian cars, alcohol, and dairy starting August 19. Trade lawyers say the untested authority is legally shaky and likely to be narrowed or struck down in court, while budget analysts note it barely dents the revenue Trump lost when the Supreme Court killed his IEEPA tariffs.

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us defense 8 4d ago 4 min read

Xi Told Trump China Wouldn't Arm Iran. Days Later, a Chinese Firm Reportedly Signed a $70 Million Missile Deal.

US officials believe Russia and China are now directly aiding Iran's fight against American forces, from satellite targeting data to shoulder-fired missiles that reportedly downed a US F-15 in April. The timeline is damning: Xi Jinping personally assured Trump China wouldn't arm Tehran, and five days later Reuters reported a Chinese company had agreed to sell Iran hundreds of missile systems. Whether Beijing's central government ordered the deal or looked away is still unproven, but the pattern is getting hard to ignore.

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us energy 6 4d ago 3 min read

Trump Administration Opens Pacific Marine Monuments to Commercial Fishing

The Trump administration is reopening parts of the Pacific's marine national monuments to commercial fishing, reversing protections that spanned more than a million square miles. Supporters say the move restores access for American fishing fleets shut out by prior administrations; conservationists warn it threatens some of the last untouched reef ecosystems on Earth.

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us economy 9 4d ago 4 min read

US and Japan Jointly Buy Yen for First Time Since 2011, Trump Calls It a Signal of Friendship

Washington and Tokyo intervened directly in currency markets after the yen hit its weakest level against the dollar in roughly four decades. Trump says the $5 billion to $10 billion move helps an ally and the US economy too, though he hasn't explained how. It's the first coordinated intervention since Japan's 2011 earthquake, and both governments say they're ready to do it again.

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us politics 7 4d ago 4 min read

Senate Stopgap Bill Blocks Trump Grant Rule, Funds Government Through Dec. 11

Senate Appropriations leaders released a bipartisan stopgap spending bill Sunday that keeps the government funded through Dec. 11 and freezes a Trump administration proposal letting political appointees screen research grants for ideological compliance. The bill heads to a procedural vote Monday night, and it looks nothing like the more partisan version the House passed last month, with Republicans providing nearly all the votes.

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us economy 8 4d ago 4 min read

25 Democratic-Led States Sue to Block Trump's New Section 301 Tariffs

Twenty-five states filed suit in the U.S. Court of International Trade arguing Trump's new 10-12.5% tariffs on 60 trading partners are just his old IEEPA tariffs in a different legal costume. The administration says forced-labor concerns justify the duties under a law that's already survived court challenges once. Round three of the tariff court fight starts now.

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us politics 7 4d ago 4 min read

Blanche Rescinds $1.8 Billion Trump Fund on Paper. Two GOP Senators Say That's Enough.

Todd Blanche formally rescinded the order creating a $1.8 billion fund for people claiming they were targets of politically motivated prosecution, clearing the last hurdle Republican Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis had thrown up against his confirmation as attorney general. The underlying settlement agreement that created the fund still exists on paper, and Trump himself says he hasn't even read the deal. Cornyn and Tillis got a written order. They didn't get a rewritten settlement, and that gap is exactly what critics are pointing at.

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us politics 7 4d ago 4 min read

23 States Sue Trump Administration Over Plan to Share Welfare Recipients' Data With Immigration Officials

Democratic-led states and DC sued Monday to stop a federal rule letting the Administration for Children and Families share Social Security numbers and immigration status of TANF recipients with agencies including DHS. The rule is set to take effect August 11. States say it violates federal law by letting Washington override state control of the program; the administration says it's checking whether states are actually verifying eligibility.

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us politics 8 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments by Nearly 90 Percent, Again

Trump signed proclamations on July 13 cutting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by roughly 90 percent each, opening the land to mining and drilling leases in 60 days. Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity say they'll sue, arguing the Antiquities Act doesn't let presidents shrink monuments their predecessors created. Trump's own claim that hunting and fishing were banned inside the monuments is false, and Utah's own hunting regulations prove it.

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us economy 6 4d ago 3 min read

Trump Demands Chevron Cut Gas Prices, Blasts CEO Mike Wirth Over TV Interview

Trump told oil companies to cut consumer gas prices immediately after Chevron CEO Mike Wirth didn't credit the administration during a TV interview. Crude prices did drop Monday on hopes for an Iran deal, but retail gas prices lag crude moves by weeks, and Chevron just posted strong earnings while drivers kept paying more.

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us politics 5 4d ago 4 min read

National Park Service Flags 37 Historic Sites Threatened by Trump's 250-Foot Arch

A National Park Service assessment says Trump's planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery would cause "adverse effects" to 37 historic sites, including the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House. The administration is separately pushing changes to the federal review rules that critics say would weaken the process meant to catch problems like this one.

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