Jacob Reses, Vice President Vance’s chief of staff who has been with him since his Senate campaign, will be leaving the role at the end of the summer. Reses has served in the role since Vance took office with President Trump in January 2025. “Jacob’s been by my side for my whole career in public...

President Trump sought to appeal to farmers at a roundtable in Wisconsin on Friday amid skyrocketing fertilizer and energy prices as a result of the U.S. war in Iran. “We’re going to come out, and your fertilizer prices are going to go way down, just like they were four months ago,” Trump told farmers in...

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) urged Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to create a vaccine for New World screwworms on Wednesday after the parasite infestation returned to the US for the first time in 60 years. Grassley said he’d spoken to Rollins about developing a vaccine for screwworms months before the recent outbreak in Texas. ...

A federal judge on Friday refused two Virginia residents’ request to block this weekend’s UFC event on the White House South Lawn, ruling they have no right to challenge the fight. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said the two had no legal standing because they hadn’t shown the event, timed to Flag Day and President Trump's 80th...

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith reiterated on Tuesday that President Trump should not have attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday. “He knows his behind should not have been at that game last night. Should have stayed his a-- at the White House,” Smith told host Chris Cuomo on NewsNation’s “Cuomo.” Trump attended...

President Trump is expected to announce that his administration will put about $700 million to bolster coal. Trump is set to use wartime authority under the Defense Prevention Act to dole out $425 million to 13 existing coal plants and $75 million for an export terminal in California.  He is also expected to announce $185...

Deal still under UK scrutiny with new investigation, and could face lawsuit from state attorneys general

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has decided to approve the $111bn merger of Paramount Skydance, controlled by the Ellison family, and Warner Bros Discovery, the parent company of networks like CNN and HBO.

The deal was approved by the justice department’s anti-trust division after months of review, and despite the concerns of many people in the entertainment and media industries who believe it will hurt competition by reducing the number of film studios and – most likely – merging two news networks, Paramount’s CBS News and CNN.

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President Trump said Iran has not agreed to a deal to end the war because they are “strong” and “proud” but noted they have “no choice” but to reach an agreement. “They’re strong, they’re proud, there are things they never thought they’d be doing that they’re going to have to do,” Trump said during an...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced civil rights investigations into 15 additional medical schools over alleged racial discrimination in admissions, expanding on its recent probes into medical schools accused of race-conscious admissions practices. The department’s Civil Rights Division said it will examine whether the schools, which each receive millions in federal funding, are...

An unmanned U.S. Navy surface vessel rescued the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache crew late Monday that went down near the Strait of Hormuz. The two crew members, who were in the waters close to the coast of Oman, were located and picked up by a Saronic Corsair, which is part of the Navy’s artificial intelligence and drone...

President Trump abruptly ended his interview with NBC News’s Kristen Welker on Friday, after the two discussed his unfounded claim that the California gubernatorial primary was “rigged.” During a lengthy interview in Wisconsin that aired Sunday on "Meet the Press," Trump repeated his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and said “it’s...

Trump administration created fund to resolve his lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns

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A federal judge in Virginia has extended an order blocking the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8bn slush fund, saying the administration’s public statements that the fund was dead were not assuring enough.

The US district judge Leonie Brinkema, an appointee of Bill Clinton, said she would lift her order if the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, and the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, filed a declaration under penalty of perjury that the fund was not moving forward in the next week.

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