Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he experienced “psychological torture,” physical abuse and alarming conditions while housed in El Salvador’s most notorious mega prison. The account, revealed through court filings late Wednesday, marks Abrego Garcia’s first time speaking about his months imprisoned in El Salvador after being deported by the Trump administration due to an “administrative error.” Abrego Garcia…
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Voters who supported President Trump in the 2024 presidential election are more likely to hold him accountable for the current state of the economy than the previous administration, according to a new survey. The latest poll from the Wall Street Journal/YouGov, shows 46 percent of Trump voters crediting the current president with the state of…
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President Trump will speak Thursday morning with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he announced in a post on social media. Trump shared on Truth Social that the two leaders would speak at 10 a.m. It was not immediately clear what the focus of the call would be, but Trump and Putin have spoken multiple times in…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a vocal critic of President Trump, shot back with sarcasm after the president seemingly called him “ugly” in a post online. “I suppose I don’t like being called ugly by Donald Trump, but not everybody can live up to his exquisite levels of handsomeness and personal physical grace,” Raskin told MSNBC’s…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took to the floor Thursday morning to give his “magic minute” floor speech opposing President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” delaying a final vote on the massive spending and tax package for hours. Jeffries has vowed to “take my sweet time” with the remarks, which are nearing five hours. The…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) commandeered the chamber floor early Thursday morning to deliver a marathon speech hammering away at the GOP’s tax and spending cut bill, stalling a final vote on the sprawling package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities. The Republican bill is almost 900 pages long, and Jeffries bashed House GOP…
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A senator spilled the “Lewinsky room” detail to NBC News in an article about Trump’s “freewheeling” White House.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) dismissed tech billionaire Elon Musk’s threat to back primary challengers against Republicans who support President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill, which is headed toward final passage in the House early Thursday morning. Marshall told Just the News’s Nicholas Ballasy that he and his fellow GOP lawmakers are “ignoring” Musk’s warnings.…
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President Trump urged Republican holdouts overnight to vote to advance his massive policy legislation, asking what they’re “trying to prove” by withholding support. “Largest Tax Cuts in History and a Booming Economy vs. Biggest Tax Increase in History, and a Failed Economy,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform shortly after midnight…
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The president has been angry with Powell over the U.S. central bank’s hesitance to succumb to his demand for lowering interest rates.
Newly released data shows that 60 percent of counties throughout the U.S. have increased the number of trees in their area. Between 2000 and 2020, data found a mean increase of 8.15 percent tree cover across 1,836 counties, which experts say will help the country beat the heat and breathe cleaner air. The Midwest region…
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The president’s White House woo-fest with Republicans quickly went sideways.
President Trump is playing hardball as his self-imposed trade deadline looms next week, backing away from talk of extending the 90-day pause on “reciprocal” duties. With a week to go, he announced the framework of a trade deal with Vietnam on Wednesday. But for countries that don’t strike deals with the U.S., he is insisting on setting the tariff…
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The former president’s claim will more than likely irk current President Donald Trump.
Jason Chaffetz also sent a menacing-sounding message to GOP lawmakers.
Critics mocked Tammy Bruce’s cultish vibes.
As his signature bill stalled in Congress, the president threw a fit at Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin.
Rep. Tim Burchett got into it with CNN’s Brianna Keilar as the House debated the president’s “big beautiful bill.”
The former MSNBC host predicted that Trump’s “big beautiful bill” would cost Republicans the House next year.
Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy raised nearly $10 million since entering the statewide race roughly four months ago, according to his campaign. Ramaswamy, who ran in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primary before dropping out in mid-January last year, brought in $9.7 million since launching his gubernatorial run in late February, his campaign said…
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In a filing from his attorneys, Abrego Garcia alleges being beaten, kicked and subject to psychological abuse after being wrongfully deported to the Salvadoran megaprison.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said during a recent interview that Medicaid cuts in the Senate-passed “big, beautiful bill” are a “bit better” than what he expected, but he added that he still has “concerns.” “I will note that I have now gotten a little bit more information on some of the Medicaid stuff that I…
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Former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew slammed New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for his policy proposals based on socialist initiatives. Mamdani has promised to push for free buses, free child care and rent freezes if elected to office. “The policies that he’s outlined are not policies that are good for New York. He’s…
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It’s a longstanding tactic the president has used to avoid confronting his own flawed policies.
The president said the previous portrait was “purposefully distorted.”