The president continues to threaten the central bank's independence to benefit himself.

A federal judge thwarted the Justice Department’s bid to hide details of an internal probe into alleged prosecutor misconduct, including the name of one of its own lawyers.U.S. District Judge April Perry on Friday denied the government’s request to seal its petition about the investigation and order...

Trump eases sanctions on Russian diesel as energy analysts question the deal and Zelenskyy accuses him of betraying Ukraine.

President Donald Trump has reportedly settled on a new White House press secretary, bringing in a familiar face from conservative television to replace Karoline Leavitt just weeks before the midterm elections.Trump has selected Katie Zacharia, a former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson an...

Florida voters who supported President Donald Trump in 2024 recoiled when shown one of the TV ads his administration paid for with public money, with one saying it left him physically ill, according to a focus group conducted by The Bulwark.Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell convened voters who backed...

YouTube video by Katie Phang

During an appearance at the newly renamed “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace,” the president’s damaged hands were once again notably caked with make-up that has previously led to concerns about his health.According to the Daily Beast, the 80-year-old president presented the National Medal of Scienc...

The Donald Trump donor who was approached by Kimberly Guilfoyle for $100K to pay off her AMEX card went on a wild rant on MS NOW on Thursday morning, pointing the finger at the people the president has surrounded himself with.Late Wednesday the Wall Street Journal reported that Eric Deters, a former...

Important updates. Paywall-free.

The Justice Department is moving toward a possible indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide whose testimony became a centerpiece of the January 6 hearings, according to Punchbowl News.Sources told the outlet that prosecutors from the department's Civil Rights Division laid out e...

Three days after he left his post as the Trump White House's top Latin America official, Michael Jensen was on a private jet with a crypto billionaire looking for oil deals in Venezuela – following others who've bailed out of government jobs to cash in overseas.Jensen had been senior director for We...

A federal judge received a paper trail showing how President Donald Trump's administration turned $20 million meant for border-security ceremonies into TV ads promoting himself.The records appear in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan by the government watchdog group Common Cause...

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports

It's 2026 and Senate Republicans are worried about Barack Obama.The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent supporters a message Wednesday morning with the subject line "Obama plots Senate takeover." The email urged readers to "brace yourself" and "read the emergency report.""After an election...

Republicans are spending heavily in states that should be safe for them with less than a month left before the midterms, a sign of how worried the party is about the Nov. 3 election, according to new reporting.Republican super PACs are buying ads in states President Donald Trump won easily, and they...

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

Donald Trump went after Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico late Wednesday night. He claimed, without evidence, that the state representative had gone "MISSING IN ACTION.""Ladies and Gentlemen, upon information and belief, James TalaFREAKo, who is running for the United States Senate in T...

October 7, 2026

President Donald Trump left onlookers stunned Wednesday when he went on a bizarre rant about what Democrats will do to him if they take back control of Congress after the midterm elections. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump told Peter Doocy of Fox News that he's aware that Democrats pl...

The Trump administration has opened an investigation into Wells Fargo over the bank's years-long effort to increase homeownership among Black Americans.The Department of Housing and Urban Development sent a letter Wednesday to Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf saying it would examine whether the bank v...

Attorney General Todd Blanche complained that the wave of prosecutors who left the Justice Department "hate us" and have banded together against the department in opposition to President Donald Trump's leadership.Blanche, who the Senate confirmed as attorney General in August, made the remarks in an...

President Donald Trump's threat to fire two of his top political advisers has stunned his own political orbit, and CNN reporters say the fallout could reach well beyond the two men.Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday that he would "terminate" James Blair and Chris LaCivita "if there's a conflic...

Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz’s worst.

A steelworker who spent decades at an Illinois mill is calling President Donald Trump's announcement of a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa "political pandering," as doubts grow over whether the project will ever be built in a red state that's leaning away from Republicans.The administration says Indi...