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1617 articles shownof 1628 totalLast updated 2026-09-07 04:51 UTC
us politics 7 3h ago 4 min read

Trump Calls for FCC to Punish NBC's Kristen Welker, Carr Says Agency Is 'Looking at a Lot of Actions'

Trump wants NBC's Kristen Welker punished by the FCC for calling his primary endorsement record 'mixed.' FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says he's 'over the target' and the agency may issue guidance on broadcasters. The FCC's own rules say it can't police a reporter's viewpoint, and the underlying claim about Trump's endorsement record has real numbers behind it on both sides.

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us finance 6 11h ago 4 min read

Trump's SpaceX Stake Sits Underwater While Musk Moves Up Orbital Data Center Timeline Again

Financial disclosures show President Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX stock on June 23, weeks after the company's record $1.77 trillion IPO, and the position may be underwater after a roughly 40% drop from post-IPO highs. Days ago Elon Musk moved up SpaceX's orbital AI data center launch target for the second time since the IPO, even as analysts flag his long history of missed deadlines.

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us politics 5 13h ago 4 min read

Raskin Says Democrats 'Will Not Hesitate' to Impeach Trump Again If They Retake the House

Rep. Jamie Raskin told NBC's Meet the Press that Trump has undoubtedly committed impeachable offenses and Democrats won't rule out a third impeachment if they win the House in November. No impeachment inquiry has been announced, and Raskin himself says healthcare, not impeachment, is the party's stated priority.

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us politics 8 13h ago 4 min read

Trump Administration Widens Immigration Enforcement: Welfare Reporting Rules, Voter Fraud Charges, and Deputized State Troopers

The Trump administration is squeezing illegal immigration on three fronts at once: forcing every state agency to report illegal immigrants on welfare, prosecuting non-citizens for voting, and deputizing state troopers as immigration agents under a 1996 law. The scale-up has already produced a case where a U.S. citizen was wrongly deported in Texas, a genuine cost of moving this fast.

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us politics 7 14h ago 4 min read

Trump Administration Drafts Rule Letting Stay-at-Home Parents Tap Federal Child Care Fund

The Trump administration is drafting a regulation that would let married couples with a stay-at-home spouse collect roughly $9,000 per child from the Child Care and Development Fund, a program currently reserved for working families. JD Vance is driving the push, but the money would come from an existing $12 billion pot with no new funding attached, meaning something has to give.

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us politics 6 15h ago 3 min read

Sen. John Kennedy Breaks with Trump on Putin Strategy, Pushes for Stalled Russia Sanctions Bill

As Witkoff and Kushner wrap up their Moscow-to-Kyiv diplomatic swing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says the administration's softer approach to Putin is a mistake and wants the House to pass a Russia sanctions bill the Senate already approved in August. He also predicts the Iran conflict won't end before the midterms and doubts the GOP can fix inflation before November.

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us politics 8 17h ago 4 min read

Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Mail-In Ballot Overhaul as GOP's Redistricting Wins Hold and Midterm Cash Sits Unspent

A federal judge has temporarily barred the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing Trump-ordered rules on mail-in ballot envelopes and a national absentee-voter database, with ballots already going out in North Carolina and Wisconsin. Meanwhile Republicans have locked in at least 10 additional House seats through redistricting, but Trump has spent almost none of the nearly $1 billion his PAC raised, and his own allies say he's turned the midterms into a referendum on himself.

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us economy 7 17h ago 3 min read

Trump Calls Canadian Dollar 'Imbalance' Unacceptable, Two Days Before Ottawa's Retaliatory Tariffs Hit

Trump posted on Truth Social that Canada's currency exchange rate with the US is 'unacceptable,' but gave zero detail on what he means or what he'll do about it. The claim lands two days before Canada's dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs take effect September 8, and Trump's own deficit numbers don't match the Census Bureau's.

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us politics 6 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Education Department Opens Two Fronts: Teacher Sex-Abuse Cover-Ups and Race-Based School Discipline

The Education Department under Secretary Linda McMahon is investigating 20 school districts over alleged cover-ups of teacher sexual misconduct, including a May probe of Los Angeles Unified. Separately, the department's civil rights office is investigating Fayetteville Public Schools in Arkansas over discipline policies that factored in race. Both actions threaten federal funding and reopen fights over how far Washington can reach into local school decisions.

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us defense 7 1d ago 4 min read

US, Japan and South Korea Proceed With Freedom Edge Drills as Trump Weighs Fourth Kim Summit

The US, Japan and South Korea are set to run their Freedom Edge exercise off Jeju Island Sept. 7-11 despite North Korea's warning of 'toughest countermeasures.' Meanwhile Trump has scaled back bilateral drills with Seoul and is reportedly considering a fourth meeting with Kim Jong Un in November, raising South Korean fears of being sidelined in any US-North Korea deal.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump's Mail-Voting Overhaul Take Effect as DHS Faces Questions Over ICE and Polling Places

The Supreme Court cleared Trump's executive order rewriting mail-ballot rules for enforcement before the midterms, ruling the harm was too speculative to block it. Meanwhile House Democrats are demanding DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin explain the legal basis for possibly sending federal agents near polling sites, something no federal law authorizes and DHS has not defended under oath.

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us politics 8 1d ago 3 min read

Xi Jinping Plans to Bring Chinese CEOs to September 24 Trump Summit in Washington

Xi Jinping is preparing to bring a large delegation of Chinese business executives to his September 24 meeting with Trump, according to Reuters sources, the first time he's done so since a 2015 trip that included Jack Ma and Pony Ma. The White House says it isn't tracking any such delegation, and sources caution the summit itself is likely to produce mostly symbolic results given tariffs, rare-earth licensing fights, and unresolved disputes over which goods count as non-sensitive.

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us economy 6 1d ago 4 min read

Debt Hits $40 Trillion as Trump Overhauls Regulatory Cost Rules and Congress Debates Red Tape

U.S. debt has crossed $40 trillion with publicly held debt nearing 100% of GDP, according to Epoch Times reader data citing Brookings. At the same time, the Trump administration has rewritten how federal agencies justify new regulations, and House Republicans are pushing to cut more of them. A new book argues the bureaucracy itself, separate from the debt, is quietly taxing Americans' time.

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us politics 6 1d ago 3 min read

Trump's D.C. Building Spree Races the Clock: Ballroom, Arch, and Helipad All Aim to Beat His 2029 Exit

The Trump White House is running construction crews around the clock on a ballroom, a triumphal arch, and a new helipad, all racing to finish before Trump leaves office in January 2029. The Supreme Court let the ballroom project continue on a standing technicality, not on the merits, while a botched Reflecting Pool repair and a redone helipad slope show what happens when speed outruns planning.

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us economy 4 1d ago 4 min read

Belgian PM Slams 'Arbitrary' Tariffs Without Naming Trump, Days After Canada's Carney Tells US to 'Stop Doing Memes'

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever used a Mumbai trade summit to mock unpredictable tariff policy without saying Trump's name, while Canadian PM Mark Carney separately told reporters the US needs to get serious before trade talks resume. Both incidents reflect real friction over Washington's tariff approach, but neither side of the underlying policy debate gets adjudicated here.

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ir defense 9 1d ago 4 min read

Iranian Tanker Hit Near Kharg Island as Trump Threatens Strike on Iran's 'Pickaxe Mountain' Site

Since Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran began February 28, the war has ground through six months and now includes a fresh missile hit on an oil tanker near Kharg Island and a Trump threat to hit Iran's fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site. Iran's oil chief calls Trump's earlier claims about destroying Kharg 'laughable,' and Reuters still hasn't confirmed who fired what near the island. Trump also ruled out a nuclear strike, calling the question 'stupid' since he says Iran is already militarily defeated.

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us defense 7 2d ago 4 min read

WSJ: Trump Team Used Nvidia Chip Access as Leverage to Seal Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Deal

The Wall Street Journal reported September 4 that U.S. negotiators dangled access to Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips for an Armenian data center to help push Armenia toward the August 2025 peace declaration with Azerbaijan. It worked, and it's paying off in Trump-branded infrastructure and investment deals across the South Caucasus. Whether that counts as smart dealmaking or uncomfortable leverage depends on who you ask.

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us politics 6 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Signs Orders on Home Meat Processing and Wolf Delisting Review After Rancher Backlash Over Beef Tariffs

President Trump signed two executive orders Friday directing agencies to ease rules on rancher-run meat processing, study reinstating country-of-origin labeling, and review delisting gray wolves. The orders came days after cattlemen and rural Republicans blasted his separate move to lower tariffs on imported beef, and neither order changes any law or regulation immediately, they just order 90-day agency reviews.

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us politics 8 2d ago 4 min read

Missouri Redistricting Fight and Trump's Mail-Ballot Rules Both Hit the Supreme Court the Same Week

Missouri asked the Supreme Court on Friday to reinstate its Trump-backed congressional map after the state's own top court blocked it and ordered a statewide vote. Hours earlier, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's USPS mail-ballot rules for a second time, citing a whistleblower and an admittedly unfinished federal portal. Both fights are now on Justice Brett Kavanaugh's and the full Court's desk with midterm deadlines bearing down.

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us politics 7 2d ago 4 min read

Judge Orders DOJ to Name the People Who Designed Trump's $1.8B Payout Fund

A federal magistrate judge in Virginia ordered the Justice Department to hand over the names of whoever designed the $1.8 billion Jan. 6 payout fund, over DOJ's objections. The fund is officially dead, Attorney General Todd Blanche says, but Trump hasn't ruled out reviving it, and the loophole he left when he cancelled it is exactly why this discovery fight matters.

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us defense 8 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Calls Iran War 'Small Potatoes' As Death Toll Sits at 18, Contradicts His Own 'War' Comments From Days Earlier

Trump told reporters Friday the Iran conflict is 'small potatoes' with only 18 US deaths, days after calling it a 'relatively little war' himself. Meanwhile a fallen airman's widow says she's being denied military benefits because the administration won't formally call it a war, and Congress's bipartisan demand for authorization sits ignored.

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us politics 6 2d ago 4 min read

Trump's $850 Million Midterm War Chest Still Mostly Unspent With Early Voting Weeks Away

Federal Election Commission filings show Trump's super PAC MAGA Inc. had roughly $401 million on hand as of July 31, and so far has spent just $827,711 of it, on a single South Carolina Senate primary. Republicans are getting nervous, some publicly, most anonymously, that the president plans to hold onto the cash rather than spend it on competitive midterm races with early voting weeks away.

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us defense 9 2d ago 4 min read

US Resumes Strikes on Iran, Trump Threatens 'Biggest Attack of Them All' as War Hits Six-Month Mark

The US military struck IRGC targets again this week and intercepted Iranian missile and drone retaliation, with Trump calling Iran's response a 'love tap' and vowing something bigger is 'waiting in the wings.' Six months into the war, Iran's economy is in freefall and its supreme leader is dead, but the regime hasn't fallen and a fortified Iranian nuclear site remains untouched.

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us energy 7 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Administration Fast-Tracks Alaska Oil Drilling on Three Separate Fronts

The Bureau of Land Management is moving to speed up drilling permits in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve, shrink the public comment period for renewing the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline right-of-way to 15 days, and skip environmental review entirely for winter seismic surveys. A federal judge also tossed a lawsuit over Trump's offshore drilling expansion, though only on procedural grounds. Energy security is the stated goal, critics say permafrost, wildlife and decommissioning risks are getting steamrolled.

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us energy 6 2d ago 3 min read

Trump Administration Slow-Walks Biden's $9.5 Billion Clean Hydrogen Push, Citing Weak Commercial Viability

The Biden administration bet $9.5 billion in 2023 that hydrogen would create 100,000 jobs and cut emissions 10 percent by 2050. Three years later the market hasn't materialized, and the Trump administration's Energy Department is reviewing projects for a real path to profit before releasing more money. The fight now centers on whether that caution is fiscal common sense or a strategic gift to China.

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us politics 8 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Threatens to Halt Trade With Deficit Countries Unless the Fed Cuts Rates

President Trump used Friday's strong August jobs report to renew his demand that Fed Chair Kevin Warsh cut interest rates, this time threatening to cut off trade entirely with countries that run surpluses against the U.S. if the Fed doesn't comply. It's a real escalation from a president who days earlier said he'd let his own appointee use his own judgment, and it lands right as the Fed's own governors are signaling a possible hike, not a cut, at the September meeting.

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us defense 7 2d ago 4 min read

Milei Threatens Sanctions on Falklands Oil Project, Claims Trump's 'Winds of Change' Favor Argentina

Argentina's Javier Milei used a Thursday night address to threaten sanctions on the British-Israeli Sea Lion oil project and announce a new naval base near the Falklands, citing Trump's vague comment that he's 'reviewing' Washington's neutral stance. The UK immediately rejected the claim, and Milei's own approval slump gives him an obvious incentive to pick this fight now.

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us politics 4 3d ago 4 min read

White House Launches Five Retro Arcade Games Pushing Trump's Border, MAHA, and Savings Agenda

The White House website added an Arcade section Thursday with five low-res games modeled on Tetris, Snake, Flappy Bird, and Tapper, each built around a Trump policy from border walls to school lunches. Democrats and border-advocacy groups called it tone-deaf given rising heating oil and food prices, while a White House official said it's meant to contrast Trump's 'winning' with what it called Democrats' 'dark socialist vision.'

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us politics 7 3d ago 4 min read

9/11 Families Press Trump to Declassify Saudi Records Ahead of 25th Anniversary

Families of Sept. 11 victims say newly surfaced documents, including a video allegedly casing the U.S. Capitol and hijacking-related sketches, bolster their decade-old civil case accusing Saudi Arabia of complicity. They're asking President Trump to declassify more records before the 25th anniversary, and a British officer says the FBI dismissed evidence he believed cleared the bar for extradition. Saudi Arabia denies any role, and none of the new material has been tested in court.

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us defense 9 3d ago 4 min read

Vance Calls Iran Fight 'Not a War' as Pentagon Signs Deals to Rebuild Missile Stockpiles Trump Says Don't Exist

Seven months after Trump launched the Iran war on February 28, 2026, Vice President Vance told reporters Thursday the conflict isn't really a war and he can't say when it ends. Meanwhile the Pentagon just signed seven-year contracts to triple and quadruple missile interceptor production, undercutting Trump's Truth Social claim that reports of munitions shortages are lies from 'treasonous SCUM.'

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us defense 7 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Says He'll Bill Europe Retroactively for Ukraine Aid, While Analysts Warn Munition Stocks Won't Recover Until 2029-2031

Hours after calling munitions-shortage reporting 'treasonous,' Trump added a new demand Thursday: European nations should pay the U.S. back for Biden-era Ukraine aid they never agreed to fund. Meanwhile CSIS estimates cited by Axios show Patriot and THAAD interceptor stocks won't hit prewar levels until 2029, and Tomahawks not until 2030 or 2031.

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us politics 8 3d ago 4 min read

Missouri Supreme Court Blocks Trump-Backed GOP House Map, Keeps Cleaver's Seat Under Old Lines

Missouri's highest court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state can't use its new GOP-drawn congressional map in November, ordering the referendum onto the ballot instead. That reverses an August circuit court win for Republicans and keeps Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City seat under the old, more Democratic-friendly lines for this cycle.

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us energy 8 3d ago 3 min read

Machado Demands Transparency and Elections Days After Trump's Venezuela Oil Deal Signing

Two days after Chevron, GE Vernova and ENI signed onto the U.S.-Venezuela oil pact in Caracas, Nobel laureate María Corina Machado is publicly asking who actually signed the deal and what it covers. She's not against American investment. She's against an unelected government cutting a $209 billion deal with zero transparency and no election in sight.

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us tech 7 3d ago 3 min read

Zuckerberg Told Trump a National AI Regulator Was a Flawed Idea, White House Officials Say

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg raised objections to a proposed FINRA-style AI regulator in a phone call with President Trump the week of August 17, according to Politico and Business Insider, both citing people familiar with the call. The White House is now weighing that plan against a lighter industry-led alternative pushed by David Sacks, and neither Meta nor the administration has confirmed the details on record.

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us defense 8 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Calls Ammo Shortage Reports 'Treasonous' as Vance Defines Iran War's Endgame

President Trump dismissed reports of depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles as 'treasonous' Thursday, while Vice President Vance told Fox News the war with Iran ends when oil stays cheap and Iran has no nuclear weapon. A former deputy director of national intelligence warns that simply declaring the war over won't reopen the Strait of Hormuz or curb Iran's nuclear program.

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us economy 8 3d ago 4 min read

Carney Fires Back at Lutnick's 'Unelected' Label as Trump Threatens Canada's Economy Will 'Collapse'

Since trade talks collapsed on Aug. 21 and Canada's dollar-for-dollar tariffs are set to hit Sept. 8, Mark Carney used a Thursday press conference in Thunder Bay to reject Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's claim that Canada tanked the deal for political reasons. Trump responded on Truth Social warning Canada's economy will collapse. Carney also announced a $4.7 billion rail contract that used to go to American manufacturers, now going to a plant in Ontario instead.

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us economy 8 3d ago 4 min read

GOP Lawmakers Back Trump, Blame Canada as Retaliatory Tariffs Set to Hit September 8

Since U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed on August 21, both countries have been stacking tariffs on each other, and this week House Republicans openly sided with Trump against Prime Minister Mark Carney's government. With no new talks scheduled and Canada's CAD $27.6 billion retaliation set for September 8, the fight is now as much about who gets blamed as it is about trucks and dairy quotas.

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ir defense 9 3d ago 4 min read

Iran Hits US Bases in Kuwait and UAE Again as Trump Publicly Corrects Commerce Secretary on War Deaths

Iran struck US-linked bases in Kuwait and the UAE for the second time this week, while Brent crude pushed past $97 a barrel and Trump publicly corrected Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's claim that no Americans had died in the war. Pentagon casualty listings for the conflict have shifted between 14 and 18 names, and nobody in the sources explains why.

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us politics 7 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Won't Say He'd Defend the Falklands, Ties It to UK's Refusal to Back Iran Strikes

Since Trump said Monday, August 31 he's reviewing the US position on Falklands sovereignty, he's gone further, telling GB News this week he wouldn't necessarily back Britain against another Argentine invasion and citing the UK's refusal to back Iran strikes. Argentina's Javier Milei has a national broadcast on the islands scheduled for tonight at 9 p.m., while a former Pentagon official insists Washington's official neutrality on sovereignty hasn't actually changed.

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us energy 7 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Administration Moves to Bar Worst-Case Climate Models From Federal Policy, as Energy Analysts Warn Carbon Sinks Are Weakening

The Trump administration proposed an amendment to the Fifth National Climate Assessment barring the use of extreme RCP8.5 emissions scenarios as policy baselines. Separately, a Wood Mackenzie report finds the oceans and forests that absorb 40% of human CO2 emissions are losing capacity, with global forest area shrinking and net emissions up 80% since 1990. Both are real developments worth tracking on their own terms, and neither cancels out the other.

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us politics 6 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Pledges to Personally Campaign in 35 Races as His Approval Hits 33%

Trump told Republican lawmakers at a Rose Garden dinner he'll spend the final 30-plus days before November campaigning in roughly 35 competitive House and Senate races, naming Alaska, Texas and Iowa specifically. He's making the pledge as a Reuters/Ipsos poll puts his approval at the lowest point of his political career and six Senate races sit in true toss-up territory.

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us finance 6 4d ago 4 min read

US Mint's New $1 Trump Coins Sell Out Fast, Democrats Question the Legal Basis

The U.S. Mint started selling $1 coins bearing Donald Trump's face on Wednesday, making him the first sitting president on U.S. currency in a century. Inventory ran low within hours, Democrats like Elizabeth Warren are calling it vanity spending, and the legal fight over Trump's face on currency is just getting started.

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us economy 8 4d ago 4 min read

Trump's Drone Tariffs, Up to 100%, Take Effect Today, With Sons' Drone Investments Drawing Attention

President Trump's proclamation slapping tariffs as high as 100% on foreign drones takes effect today, aimed squarely at China's dominance of the market. The policy is a defensible national-security move given China's DJI controls two-thirds of the global drone market, but it lands as Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump hold stakes in several companies positioned to benefit, and a top general says US bases still can't stop a drone swarm anyway.

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us politics 8 4d ago 4 min read

Judge Blocks Trump's Narrower Birthright Citizenship Order, Citing June Supreme Court Ruling

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman blocked Trump's August 6 executive order narrowing birthright citizenship, ruling it conflicts with the Supreme Court's June decision in Barbara v. Trump. The administration says it built the new order around that ruling and plans to keep fighting, possibly back to the Supreme Court. This is round two of a fight Trump started his first day back in office.

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us politics 7 4d ago 3 min read

Patagonia, Tribes and Conservationists Reopen 2017 Lawsuit Over Trump's 3-Million-Acre Cut to Utah Monuments

Patagonia and a coalition of tribes and conservation groups filed a motion Wednesday, September 2, to revive a 2017 lawsuit challenging Trump's July 13 proclamations that shrank Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by roughly 90%. The legal question at the heart of it, whether a president can undo a monument designation under the Antiquities Act, has never actually been decided by a court.

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us economy 8 4d ago 4 min read

Trump's Tungsten Scrap Export Ban Takes Effect as Pentagon Locks In Seven-Year Missile Deals

The Trump administration's one-year ban on tungsten scrap and battery black mass exports took effect last week, forcing US suppliers to sell 100 percent of monthly output domestically instead of to China. The move comes as the Pentagon signs seven-year missile-production deals with Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, and as analysts warn Beijing could retaliate by tightening its own grip on rare earths and magnets.

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us politics 8 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Scales Back Korea War Games, Calls Taiwan Arms Package a China Bargaining Chip

In mid-August, President Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea hours before they were set to begin, part of a broader pattern that includes calling a pending $14 billion Taiwan arms package a 'negotiating chip' with Beijing and letting Nvidia sell advanced AI chips to China. Pentagon officials insist the U.S. isn't leaving Asia, but allies, analysts, and members of Congress from both parties aren't so sure.

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us defense 9 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Aides Push to Contain Iran War Before Midterms, But Trump's Own Rhetoric Keeps Undercutting It

Reuters reporting says Trump's own White House staff are trying to keep the Iran war from spiraling before November so it doesn't sink Republican candidates. Problem is, Trump spent Monday night on Truth Social daring Iran to fight and calling any deal worthless, right after ordering a fresh round of strikes. Two arms of the same administration are not telling the same story, and the polling on the war is brutal for the president either way.

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us politics 7 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Says Xi Will Visit White House Sept. 24, Beijing Has Not Confirmed

President Trump has publicly set a September 24 date for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit the White House, but China's government has not officially confirmed the trip. Prediction markets already put the odds near 95%, while foreign policy analysts say the summit is more about managing an uneasy truce than fixing anything.

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il defense 8 4d ago 4 min read

Israeli Defense Minister Katz Says Government Is Ready to Remove Gaza Palestinians, Wants Trump's Sign-Off

Defense Minister Israel Katz says Israel has plans ready to move Palestinians out of Gaza by sea, air or any other means, and is waiting on Donald Trump to approve it. Trump floated the idea in early 2025, walked it back after Egypt objected, and left it out of his 20-point ceasefire plan, but Katz says it was only frozen, not canceled.

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us economy 8 4d ago 3 min read

Trump Weighs New 7.5% Tariff on China as G20 Finance Ministers Split 19-1 Over Beijing's Trade Surplus

Since Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told G20 finance ministers in Asheville on August 31 that the world 'cannot have a China with a $1.2 trillion trade surplus,' the Trump administration is now weighing a fresh 7.5% tariff on Chinese goods to punish Beijing for underpricing exports, according to AP News and Breitbart, citing people familiar with the deliberations. The move would stack on existing tariffs and is being calibrated to avoid blowing up the trade truce before a planned Trump-Xi meeting expected in late September. Meanwhile Canada's central bank just cited the U.S.-Canada trade fight itself as an inflation risk, showing the collateral damage spreading beyond Beijing.

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us economy 8 4d ago 4 min read

Venezuela's Assembly Approves Trump's Oil Deal, Pentagon Stake Signing Set for Wednesday in Caracas

Venezuela's government-controlled National Assembly rubber-stamped the US-Venezuela oil pact on Tuesday, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright set to sign it in Caracas Wednesday. The deal hands the Pentagon a 35% stake and board veto power in a company holding 100-year leases on 17 oil fields, and critics on the left and libertarian right both call it cronyism dressed up as commerce.

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us tech 8 4d ago 4 min read

Trump DOJ Tells Federal Judge AI Training on Copyrighted Text Is Fair Use, NYT Calls It Siding With Trillion-Dollar Companies

The Justice Department filed a statement of interest Tuesday in the New York Times' copyright suit against OpenAI, arguing AI training on copyrighted material is fair use and citing national security. The Times says the administration is siding with tech giants over the creators whose work built the industry. The filing has no binding legal weight, but it's the government's first formal position in the dozens of AI copyright suits working through federal courts.

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us politics 4 4d ago 4 min read

Kennedy Center Tears Down Joel Shapiro's 'Blue' Sculpture as Trump Renaming Fight Drags On

Crews removed the 24-foot 'Blue' sculpture from the Kennedy Center grounds Wednesday, the same week the Trump administration told a federal judge the building could face demolition without a major renovation it says only Trump's donor push can fund. The sculpture's removal and the naming fight are two separate disputes tangled into one story, and neither is close to resolved.

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us politics 7 4d ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump Ballroom Work Continue 5-4 as Roberts Calls Project Likely Unlawful

The Supreme Court split 5-4 to let construction on Trump's East Wing ballroom keep going while a lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation plays out in lower courts. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, calling the project likely unlawful. The same week, a federal judge rejected Trump's third attempt to move his New York hush money conviction into federal court.

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us economy 7 4d ago 4 min read

Bank of Canada Holds Rate at 2.25% for Seventh Straight Meeting as Trump's Tariffs Loom

The Bank of Canada left its key rate unchanged at 2.25% on Wednesday, its seventh consecutive hold, as it waits to see how 50% U.S. tariffs and Canada's coming retaliation actually hit prices and growth. Governor Tiff Macklem is stuck between an energy-driven inflation problem and a trade war that could slow the economy, with no clean fix for either.

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us economy 9 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Says He 'Couldn't Care Less' If Iran Signs a Deal, Tells Iranians to 'Rise Up and Fight'

As U.S.-Iran strikes resumed this week, Trump used a Tuesday night Truth Social post to reject an ABC News report that he's pushing Tehran back to the table, and instead called on ordinary Iranians to overthrow their government. Iranian respondents on Iran International pushed back hard, saying they've been fighting for 47 years and need real outside help, not slogans, before they'll risk another crackdown.

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us politics 9 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Aides Push to Keep Iran War 'Quiet' Until Midterms as Strikes Resume, Approval Falls to 33%

Reuters reports that senior Trump aides are trying to keep the Iran conflict from escalating before the November 3 midterms, betting on economic pressure over open warfare while the U.S. military rebuilds depleted munitions. The strategy is already fraying: the U.S. and Iran traded fresh strikes this week, and Trump's own approval on the war has dropped from 40% to 33%.

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us politics 5 4d ago 3 min read

Rep. Al Green Files New Trump Impeachment Resolution Over ICE Deaths, Needs Seven GOP Votes He Does Not Have

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) filed H.Res.1486 on Monday, August 24, naming four people who died in ICE and CBP encounters and accusing Trump of covering up the killings. The resolution has no path forward in the current GOP-controlled House, but it puts fresh pressure on Hakeem Jeffries as Democrats weigh whether a third impeachment awaits a possible Democratic majority in January.

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us politics 8 4d ago 3 min read

Trump Says America Should Stand Alone as His Iran Sanctions Campaign Pushes Oil Prices Higher

The Financial Times reports Donald Trump has told associates the U.S. should go it alone rather than lean on allies, a stance rattling NATO and Indo-Pacific partners. At the same time, his administration is running an economic pressure campaign against anyone doing business with Iran, and oil prices have ticked up as a result. Whether this is American decline or American leverage depends entirely on who you ask.

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