President Trump says he is considering “taking away” the U.S. citizenship of a longtime rival, actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits such an action by the government. “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving…
‘The settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret,’ said Paramount. United States media giant Paramount has agreed to pay $16m to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the editing of a 2024 interview aired by CBS, its subsidiary. The payout announced on Wednesday will go towards Trump’s planned presidential…
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has pulled ahead in the early contest for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, edging out other high-profile names in a party still searching for its next standard-bearer, according to a new national survey. A June Emerson College Polling survey, published on Friday, finds Buttigieg, who is gay, leading the Democratic…
Hundreds will gather on Saturday morning at Minneapolis’ Basilica of St. Mary for the private funeral of Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog, Gilbert. The funeral comes one day after the Hortmans and their dog laid in state in the Minnesota Capitol Rotunda. Melissa Hortman is the first woman to ever have the honor….
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “very famous.” But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans…
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ return to the political spotlight Wednesday came not only with a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump, but also a carefully worded acknowledgment of her political future ambitions. Speaking in San Francisco, in her first major public remarks since her 2024 presidential defeat, Harris blasted Mr. Trump’s economic agenda. His…
ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.” But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined slavery into the U.S. Constitution and declared enslaved persons as three-fifths of a person for the purpose…
The executive order also targets Hillary Clinton and Antony Blinken, former state secretaries, and some Republicans. US President Donald Trump has revoked the security clearance of his predecessor, Joe Biden, in a sweeping move that also targeted former Vice President Kamala Harris and several senior former White House and national security officials. “I hereby direct…
President Trump on Friday night rescinded the security clearances of former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, several members of the Biden administration, and other prominent Democrats. The move comes after Mr. Trump had already announced last month that he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s security clearance. In a memo Friday, the…
President Trump threatens 200% tariff on alcohol from EU President Donald Trump has threatened to place a 200% tariff on all alcohol from the European Union. WASHINGTON – To some people, President Donald Trump is shaking things up. To others, he is sowing an unusual amount of chaos and confusion in a world that has…