I'm honored that President [Donald] Trump put his trust in me and I thank Mayor Foley for taking the time to swear me in as GSA Administrator on such short notice. Over the past four months I've met with GSA employees, listened to what's working well and what we can be doing better. I'm fired up to get to work and proud to start serving in President Trump's Administration for the American people.
I want to thank President Trump, he is fulfilling his commitment, him and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are sending the National Guard back into Louisiana, into New Orleans, he said. They will be there for New Year's Eve, and they will be there for a deployment through February, which we desperately need. Look, We know how to make cities safe, and the National Guard complements cities that are having high crime problems.
For Grandma: A tariff! Did they not want tariffs? That's what we got everyone. Sorry. For Uncle Greg: A TINY CAR!!! (We're making these now.) For Her: A photoshoot with Vanity Fair. Nothing says "glamour" like Vanity Fair. Usually. But sometimes the picture they take of you comes out looking like Dorian Gray's DMV photo-unflattering, but in a way that implies deep spiritual corruption. This gives a fun Russian-roulette aspect to the gift!
Ever since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump has taken a sledgehammer to the federal workforce, attempting to purge tens of thousands of civil servants and shutter entire agencies. The Supreme Court has largely rubber-stamped these mass layoffs, even when they frustrated congressional commands expressly intended to direct, structure, and constrain the executive branch. Last month, however, Congress struck back in a little-noticed move that shifted power away from the Trump administration by outlawing further illegal firings and reversing those already underway.
After waiting four years to return to the White House, President Donald Trump did not hesitate. Congratulations from foreign leaders were still pouring in on Inauguration Day when Trump signed his first directive. That day, he issued a raft of executive orders, proclamations and pardons that remade vast swaths of public policy and upended lives around the globe. Among those affected by his actions were journalists.
Question One Kambree Nelson is ... a) a federal judge, who called legal arguments by the Trump Justice Department in favor of ousting transgender service members "soaked in animus and dripping with pretext." b) a "new media reporter" in the White House press gallery who believed the Democrats had hidden, or maybe destroyed, the moon. c) a crazy mother who sent a death threat to her kid's teacher after the teacher initiated a project that included the rainbow flag.
Since early September, President Donald Trump has overseen a U.S. military campaign targeting boats accused of smuggling drugs through the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that has now killed more than 100 people, according to a detailed investigation by The New York Times. The operation began Sept. 2, with the U.S. military carrying out airstrikes against vessels the Trump administration says were involved in maritime drug trafficking.
The Warrior Dividend that President Donald Trump announced during his televised address to the nation Wednesday is not made possible by tariff revenues, as the president suggested. Instead, the $1,776 payments to troops are coming from a congressionally approved housing supplement money they were already set to receive that was a part of bill of tax cut extensions and expansions signed into law in July.
The reform of immigration courts is one of the measures that has been undertaken by the Trump administration to expedite deportations, which are not occurring at the pace the U.S. president desires. In addition to instructing judges to close asylum cases without a trial, he has sought to replace judges he deemed too favorable to migrants with military lawyers. In recent months, the Republican has dismissed approximately 140 immigration judges and, in their place, hired 36 military lawyers to perform their duties.
Few expected United States President Donald Trump to abandon Israel during his second term in office, considering how supportive he had been of the Middle Eastern country in his first term. And yet, considering the still-mounting death toll from Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, and the international condemnation that has accompanied it, his continued full-throated support for Israel has unnerved some in the president's base.
Though the impetus for this investigation follows grave concerns about the extent of Russia's penetration of our political system, we must be clear-eyed too about the threat of interference now posed by the United States. In his recent national security strategy, President Trump outlined the US's new policy of cultivating resistance' within Europe. This reflects nothing less than an explicit call for interference in European politics including our own.
Critics of the Trump administration have praised Vanity Fair's interview with the White House chief of staff, and particularly the unvarnished photographs of Trump's inner circle that accompanied it, as overdue scrutiny of a controversial cabinet even as his allies rallied to dismiss it as a hit piece. Over what the magazine said was 11 separate interviews by reporter Chris Whipple, Susie Wiles spoke candidly about her colleagues,
The article itself brought a massive amount of buzz, and Anderson's photos raised that to a nuclear level, with harsh lighting, unflinchingly close-ups of their faces, and posed photos that seemed clearly intended to communicate critical judgment of these people and the roles they were playing in Trump's second term. Many commentators were struck by the brutal detail of some of the photos, showing wrinkles, smeared makeup, stray hairs, and other facial skin imperfections.
Underneath former President Joe Biden's photograph, which is actually a picture of an autopen (that's called foreshadowing) a newly-installed plaque reads: Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction.
In 1773, colonists threw tea in Boston harbor to protest unfair taxation, but on the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Bostonians threw ice in opposition to the ICE "terror campaign." Hosted by the activist groups Boston Indivisible and Mass 50501, protesters gathered at the Irish Famine Memorial Plaza - just steps from the original tea party starting point at the Old South Meeting House - on Tuesday, according to the activist groups.
In a presidency defined by perpetual attention - meetings bleeding into photo ops, policy announcements collapsing into monologue - few refrains have proved as durable for President Donald Trump as the line "transgender for everybody." It arrives in his remarks like a reflex, surfacing in moments where it has no organic relevance, signaling not policy precision but the durability of a grievance.
Driving the news: Washington advanced a series of policies over the past week that would have triggered significant MAGA backlash at earlier points in the administration. This time, the reaction was mostly crickets - drowned out by online convulsions over Candace Owens, Turning Point USA, a MAGA podcaster's sexuality, and antisemitism. Artificial intelligence: President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to gut state laws that regulate AI - a major initiative pushed by the GOP's tech allies.
When are we going to get the message? I joked a few months back that, when it comes to Donald Trump, Europe needs to learn from Sex and the City's Miranda Hobbes and realise that He's just not that into you. After this past week, it's clear that understates the problem. Trump's America is not merely indifferent to Europe it's positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.
Under Trump's second term, these arrests have increased as he's overseen the boost in ICE's deportation numbers through an increase in immigration raids nationwide. Many people swept up in the raids have been later revealed to have been wrongfully arrested, detained and deported by ICE. The individuals are US citizens with correct visas or valid asylum claims. Furthermore, up to three-quarters of detainees this fiscal year have no criminal history, according to the Cato Institute.
On Thursday, multiple outlets reported that the Trump administration is considering reclassifying marijuana from its current level as a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug. The Washington Post was the first to report on the potential reclassification, citing six sources familiar with the matter. As with most things Trump does, he is expected to issue a reclassification directive via an executive order.
Why the United States apparently seized a Venezuelan oil tanker. Trump, despite broaching the topic directly to media, elected not to answer who owned said tanker, or what the justification was for taking it, saying only "it was seized for a very good reason." When one reporter asked what would happen to the oil seized from said tanker, or the ship itself, Trump replied: "Well, we keep it, I guess," according to New York Times reporter Chris Cameron.
A senior Democratic senator is calling for an investigation into potential insider trading by fossil-fuel billionaires close to the Trump administration, after a Guardian investigation raised questions about an unusual share buying spree. Robert Pender and Michael Sabel, the founders and co-chairs of Venture Global, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company headquartered in Virginia, bought more than a million shares worth almost $12m each, just days after meeting with senior Trump officials in March.
She cited a decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that her enduring work as interim US attorney despite a lower court order ending her appointment violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. As a result of the Third Circuit's ruling, and to protect the stability and integrity of the office which I love, I have decided to step down in my role as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Habba wrote.
Donald Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba says she is resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, she announced on social media. Habba's resignation came after district and appellate court rulings which found she was unlawfully serving in the role, a powerful post charged with enforcing federal criminal and civil law. The Trump administration had been maneuvering to keep Habba in place after her interim appointment expired and she had not gotten US Senate confirmation.
A new portrait name plate for former Biden Health and Human Services official Rachel Levine, who is a transgender woman, drew cries of bigotry when it was revealed Monday. Instead of displaying her current name, the Trump administration created the name plate to reflect Levine's so-called dead name of Richard. Deadnaming is when a transgender person is called by their birth name instead of the name that reflects their gender transition.
The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has developed a go-to response when asked about something controversial Donald Trump or members of his administration said or did. It's some version of I don't know anything about that. When pressed about the latest scandal from the Trump administration, Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, frequently says he is not aware of that news including last week to reports about a US military strike on an alleged drug boat that has roiled Washington politics.
