US politics

US politics

* Trump claims he has an obligation to sue the BBC for showing an edited version of his January 6 speech, and not the full, contextual "very calming speech" that didn't immediately lead into a riot. [ BBC] * Latham trains associates to embrace AI. [ Business Insider] * Visa and Mastercard ink massive settlement with merchants over swipe fees. [ NPR] * Kim Davis faces steep fees after Supreme Court bid failed. [ Newsweek]

We've mistaken expression for impact, conflating social media dust-ups with actual power. We've neglected the unglamorous work that holds societies together: governing, problem-solving, and cooperating across differences. My research shows that real change happens not in viral TikToks but in drab meeting rooms - the phones-down, notebooks-out work of local governance. It's there that we make progress and bridge divides.

This is the discussion I used to have with Elon all the time. He'd come in the West Wing. He'd want all these guarantees on the button. I said: Dude, you don't understand. You're asking people that make 42,000 bucks a year to essentially get all these tax breaks.' They're financing what the venture capitalist should finance, so therefore, you're gonna own less of Tesla, right? Their returns are gonna take longer and maybe be lower, so they're gonna want even more.

In recent months, the conservative Trump devotee, from whom Americans have come to expect off-the-cuff and often crude commentary, has been undeniably good natured, coming across as astoundingly reasonable during a number of appearances on CNN, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and elsewhere. But if that weren't enough to cast aside doubts about a major pivot with the congresswoman (who once harassed a school shooting survivor and chased a fellow member of Congress down a hallway), then a November 4 appearance on The View definitely did the trick.

"have demonstrated a pattern of collusion"

Allen received notice of his termination from the White House after he made efforts to provide key information to prosecutors in that office, according to four sources. The information he turned over was constitutionally required, two of them said, while a third described it as being potentially relevant in discovery. His ouster also came about as he was preparing to send a letter to Congress notifying lawmakers that the FHFA was not cooperating with the inspector general's office, three of the sources said.

Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham's latest sit-down with President Donald Trump has sparked applause from both sides of the political spectrum. In the interview, which aired in two parts this week, Ingraham pressed Trump on everything from work visas to Trump's strength in building ballrooms. She also took a tour of recent White House improvements. An exchange between Trump and Ingraham about the shortage of talent in America riled many in Trump's MAGA base. Left-leaning CNN media reporter Brian Stelter called the interview fascinating.

And as we come on the air tonight, things are actually happening, here on Capitol Hill, which after 42 42 days of this government shutdown, is actually worth a breaking-news banner of its own, because lawmakers are now working late into the evening, tonight, to seal the deal, and end the longest government shutdown on record. That hasn't stopped the White House's efforts and the President's efforts to stop full food assistance benefits from going out.

In their campaign for gender-affirming care bans, Republican lawmakers have enlisted a small group of detransition activists - and they have become the public face of these efforts. State laws and proposed congressional bills to restrict gender-affirming care are named after them and they have also traveled the country to share their stories of regret.

I think I have an obligation to do it, you can't allow people to do that. I guess I have to. They defrauded the public and they've admitted it. This is within one of our great allies, supposedly our great ally. That's a pretty sad event. They actually changed my January 6 speech, which was a beautiful speech, which was a very calming speech, and they made it sound radical.

When Donald Trump started sending warships, marines and reaper drones to the Caribbean in August to torment Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro, the US's former ambassador in Caracas, James Story, suspected the deployment was largely for show: a spectacular flexing of military muscle supposed to force the authoritarian leader from power. But in recent days, as the world's largest aircraft carrier and its strike group powered towards the region and the US president continued to order deadly airstrikes on alleged narco-boats, the diplomat's thinking has shifted.

"We can stop Mattel from making Catrina Barbies," Yañez told me. "Where we can make a difference and have some control is in what we can do as a community and for each other and how we engage with each other."

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

Footage from a dustup, in which student protesters were chanting "Nazis go home!" and "Fuck you, fascists!" at one guy selling Jesus-y t-shirts which was f0llowed by someone tossing some t-shirts to the ground and then getting in a scuffle with the t-shirt guy that left his face bloodied made the rounds of conservative social media, with the mostly unmasked student protesters being disingenuously labeled "Antifa."

To understand how grudging Amy Coney Barrett's new book is when it comes to revealing personal details, consider that one of the family members the Supreme Court Justice most often refers to is a great-grandmother who died five years before she was born. On Barrett's desk at home, she recounts in " Listening to the Law," she keeps a photograph of her great-grandmother's one-story house, where, as a widow during the Great Depression, she raised some of her thirteen children and took in other needy relatives.

On Saturday, October 18, more than 7 million people took to the streets in thousands of events across the country, proudly declaring that we have no kings in America. Aerial camera shots of throngs of people marching down the streets of Chicago, New York, Boston, and Atlanta gave me chills. But similar pictures coming out of Billings, Montana; Boise, Idaho; and Hammond, Louisiana (where Trump won in 2024), as well as Richmond, Kentucky (where he won the last three elections), gave me hope.

One-third of US museums have lost government grants or contracts since Donald Trump took office, according to a new survey. The findings, released by the American Alliance of Museums on Tuesday and based on responses from more than 500 museum directors across the US, shed new light on the challenges cultural institutions are facing under the Trump administration.