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Trump's Approval Rating Hits Record Low as Voters Sour on His Presidency — article image
Trump Says $15 Billion Iowa Steel Plant Is Already Being Built. Local Officials Say Otherwise. — article image
Trump Says He Knows ‘More About Everything’ Than Anyone in the World — article image
JD Vance Warns Democrats Will Make Energy Prices ‘Skyrocket.’ Has He Looked at a Gas Station Lately? — article image
Trump Wants Alabama Bridge Named After Him — But Biden's Infrastructure Law Helped Pay for It — article image
Trump's Poll Numbers Collapse as Americans Blame Him for High Prices — article image
Trump's Russia Peace Talks Are Now Entangled With a Multibillion-Dollar Oil Deal — article image
Taxpayers Are Paying Millions for Government Ads Praising Donald Trump — article image
Steve Hilton Is Losing Badly, So His Campaign Is Getting Weird — article image
Iran Refuses to Reopen Strait of Hormuz as Middle East War Spreads — article image
Trump Heads to Ohio Rally as 1,400 Truck Workers Lose Their Jobs — article image
Trump Underwater in 39 States as Midterm Elections Approach — article image
How Is That Possible?’ Fox Host Stunned as Democrat Leads Texas Senate Poll — article image
Trump Gives 24-Year-Old Reporter a White House Press Job Despite Thin Résumé — article image
Empty Seats Greet Trump at Alabama Rally as Crowd Problems Continue — article image
Judge Orders DOJ to Fast-Track Epstein Records Mentioning Trump and Mar-a-Lago — article image
Trump Is Using Taxpayer Money to Air Campaign-Style Ads About Himself — article image
Trump Said He Would Save the Kennedy Center. Nineteen Months Later, It Is in Financial Crisis. — article image
Something Is Happening in Texas: Trump’s Coalition Is Showing Serious Cracks — article image
Jack Smith Probe Swept Up Financial Records of Thousands of Trump Donors and Journalists’ Communications — article image
Republicans Have a Midterm Problem: Majority of Voters Now Want Democrats to Control the House — article image
Trump’s Jobs Economy Hits a Wall as Hiring Collapses and Earlier Gains Vanish — article image
Trump Tried to Fix America’s Beef Crisis. His Own Policies May Be Making It Worse — article image
Seven Months Into the Iran War, the Strait of Hormuz Is Sending an Ominous Message — article image
Trump Family Business Empire Faces Scrutiny Over Billions in Government Deals — article image
Appeals Court Leaves Sanctions in Place After Judge Found Trump’s $1.8 Billion IRS Deal Was Collusive — article image
After DOGE’s Troubled Record, Hegseth Brings Elon Musk Back to Help Shape the Future of the U.S. Military — article image
Trump’s Iran War Has Cost $45 Billion — But Congress Won’t Settle the Bill Until After the Election — article image
Donald Trump Is Putting Himself in TV Ads — And You're Paying for Them — article image
Trump Tried to Gerrymander His Way Through the Midterms. It May Be Backfiring. — article image
Even Fox News Can't Hide How Bad Things Have Gotten for Donald Trump — article image
Five Trump-Era Deals Congress May Put May Use Against Trump — article image
Pennsylvania Reports Fifth Measles Death as Outbreak Surges to 943 Cases — article image
Trump Celebrates a $15 Billion Steel Boom While the Fine Print Tells a Different Story — article image
America’s Truckers Are Getting Crushed as Diesel Prices Soar and Bankruptcies Pile Up — article image
Trump Is Promising Another Massive Factory. We’ve Seen This Movie Before. — article image
Polls Point to a Massive Blue Wave as Republicans Lose Ground Nationwide — article image
Ten Years of Fact-Checking Trump: Daniel Dale Says the Lies Never Stopped — article image
Trump’s Iran War Is Fueling a Diesel Crisis — And Americans May Pay for It Everywhere — article image
Taxpayers Are Paying for Pro-Trump TV Ads — Now Questions of Legality Are Growing — article image
Trump Hits 37% Approval as Republicans Confront a Midterm Warning Sign — article image
Trump’s Voter-Fraud Crackdown Finds Cases — Just Not the Epidemic He Claimed — article image
Trump Boasts That America Has ‘The Best Poverty’ — article image
America Has Recorded More Measles Cases in 2025–26 Than in the Previous 20 Years Combined — article image
Trump's Support Is Cracking in the Places That Put Him Back in the White House — article image
Inflation Is Rising Again — and Trump’s Economic Policies Are Making the Fed’s Job Harder — article image
Paul LePage Backed Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. Then ICE Came for His Own Family. — article image
Trump Calls Venezuela Agreement the “Biggest Oil Deal in World History.” The Reality Is Far More Complicated — article image
E. Jean Carroll Finally Has Trump's Money — And She Says She's Not Spending It on Herself — article image
Trump's Poll Numbers Are Collapsing — And Voters Now See Republicans as the Party of the Elite — article image
Trump's War on Obamacare Is Driving Americans Off Their Health Insurance — article image
Trump Promised to Eliminate the $19 Trillion National Debt. It Has Now Surpassed $40 Trillion — article image
Pete Hegseth's Bank Account Jumps From Under $50,000 to More Than $1 Million — article image
Winter Is Coming — And Trump’s Oil Crisis Is About to Get Much Harder to Hide — article image
rump Moves to Cancel Nearly $1 Billion Congress Already Approved — article image
Trump Rejects Iran’s Seven-Day Proposal After Leading U.S. Into War — article image
Trump Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle Faces Questions Over Lobbyist’s Role in European Energy Deals — article image
26 Articles of Impeachment: Democrat Lays Out a Sweeping Case Against Trump — article image
The Iran War Is Becoming a Midterm Problem Republicans Can’t Ignore — article image
Trump’s Iran War Is Now Costing American Households an Estimated $1,760 — article image
Trump’s Support Is Shrinking—Even Among Republicans — article image
Trump’s Sons Invested in Defense Companies. Those Companies Have Landed Billions in Government Business. — article image
Melania Trump Says Her Childhood Under Communism Was ‘Beautiful’ — article image
Trump Won Over Latino Voters. Now Some Say They Feel Betrayed. — article image
Trump’s Immigration Detention Push Wasted Millions Before ICE Even Had a Plan — article image
Trump Administration’s Nevada Noncitizen Voter Claim Collapses Under Scrutiny — article image
ox News Poll: 63% of Voters Say Trump Has Made the Economy Worse — article image
Trump’s Justice Department Is Losing Lawyers Just as Its Workload Explodes — article image
Congress Is Coming Back for the Epstein Files—Again — article image
DHS Claimed Thousands of Noncitizens Were on Nevada’s Voter Rolls. Its Evidence Fell Apart. — article image
A Small Nebraska Town Lost Its Only Medical Clinic Due To Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Loomed — article image
Trump Won Over Young Men. Now Some of His Biggest 2024 Gains Are Unraveling — article image
96% of people we polled believe Donald Trump is the 'dumbest President ever' — article image
Republican Candidates Put Distance Between Themselves and Trump as Midterm Pressure Builds — article image
She Voted for Trump Because She Thought ICE Would Protect Her Family. Then an ICE Agent Killed Her Daughter. — article image
The Voters Who Put Trump Back in the White House Are Starting to Walk Away — article image
Trump’s Iran War Is Losing Republicans — New Poll Shows Support Cracking Inside His Own Party — article image
Republican Ashley Hinson Suddenly Wants the Iran War to End — After Repeatedly Voting Against Efforts to End U.S. Involvement — article image
Trump Lied at the United Nations. Here’s What the Facts Actually Show. — article image
JD Vance Blames Iran as Gas Prices Explode — and Americans Aren’t Buying the Excuse — article image
Trump Said He Could Eliminate the $19 Trillion National Debt. It Has Now Surpassed $40 Trillion — article image
Trump EPA Ordered to Restore $7 Billion Solar Program After Judge Rules Cancellation Illegal — article image
Trump’s U.N. Speech Draws Silence and Walkouts as He Threatens Iran and Cuba — article image
Republican Senator Calls for Trump Jr. Subpoena as Questions Grow Over Trump Family Business Empire — article image
Trump Turns to Russia-Aligned Belarus for Fertilizer as His Fight With Canada Continues — article image
Trump Approval Falls to 32% — the Lowest of His Political Career — article image
Trump Declares Victory on Greenland — But the Deal Falls Far Short of the Takeover He Demanded — article image
The Midterm Map Is Turning Blue — And Republicans Are Running Out of Places to Hide — article image
Maddest I’ve Seen Farmers in a Long Time’: Trump’s Beef Policy Sparks Revolt in Farm Country — article image
John Kennedy Says Trump Will End the Iran War in Six Months — Without Explaining How — article image
Trump Announces an ‘AI Force’ — Apparently Before His Own Advisers Knew What It Was — article image
Trump Heads to the United Nations With America’s Traditional Alliances Under Strain — article image
Trump Approval Crashes Into the 20s in New National Poll — article image
Greg Abbott Is Losing to a Democrat in Texas — New Poll Puts Hinojosa Ahead by 4 — article image
Trump Said Ukraine and Russia Agreed to Stop Attacking Energy Targets. The Attacks Never Stopped. — article image
Trump’s Very Bad Week: Courts, Congress, the Fed and the Economy All Delivered Setbacks — article image
ICE Officer Shoots Man in Austin as Questions Grow Over Federal Immigration Enforcement — article image
Republican María Salazar Warns Trump: Hispanic Voters Who Put You in the White House ‘Feel Betrayed’ — article image
Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration’s New Mail-Voting Restrictions — article image
Trump Demands Lower Interest Rates. His Own Fed Chair Just Voted to Raise Them. — article image
Oil Has Surged More Than 50% in a Year as Iran War Disrupts Global Energy Markets — article image
Mortgage Rates Hit 19-Month High as Trump’s Affordability Problem Deepens — article image
America's Farmers Are Getting Crushed by Record Diesel Prices — article image
Trump-Backed Ken Paxton Says He’s Campaigning in “Cyprus.” He Meant Texas. — article image
Trump Lashes Out at His Own Supreme Court Appointees After Mail-Ballot Defeat — article image
Trump’s Policies Are Creating a Dangerous Midterm Environment for Republicans — article image
Trump Keeps Telling Americans the Economy Is Great. Voters Aren’t Buying It. — article image
Trump Moves to Put Political Appointees Between Scientists and NIH Research Money — article image
The Iran War Has Already Cost the U.S. at Least $43.6 Billion — article image
Trump Sent Two Real Estate Dealmakers to End the Ukraine War. The War Is Still Going. — article image
America Nearly Lost Its Vote at the United Nations — Then Had to Pay $725 Million — article image
Americans Are Paying at the Pump as the Iran War Drives Fuel Prices Higher — article image
House Votes for Third Time to End Trump’s Iran War — article image
Trump Escalates a Growing Trade War With Canada — article image
FAA Clears Trump’s Massive 250-Foot Arch Near Reagan National Airport — article image
Trump Administration Prepares Sweeping Sanctions Against the International Criminal Court — article image
Stephen Miller Pushes New Effort to Accelerate Deportations of Migrant Children — article image
Trump Promised 3% Mortgages. Instead, Rates Have Climbed to 7.28% — article image
Lake America: When a Trade Dispute Turned Into an Executive Order — article image
Trump Declares National Emergency Over Foreign Threats to the U.S. Power Grid — article image
Trump Moves to Reshape America’s Childhood Vaccine Schedule — article image
Court Tells Trump He Can't Build His White House Ballroom Without Congress — article image
Trump Escalates Trade Dispute With Canada With New 50% Tariffs — article image
Trump Takes His Culture War to the Smithsonian — article image
Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Immigration Courthouse Arrest Policy Nationwide — article image
Trump Launches International Campaign Against the International Criminal Court — article image
Federal Government Shuts Down as Trump Begins Second-Term Funding Battle — article image
Jack Smith's 165-Page Filing Reveals the Election Case Against Trump — article image
Trump Fights Release of Jack Smith’s Evidence in January 6 Case — article image
Trump’s Effort to Slow Mar-a-Lago Documents Investigation Faces New Setback — article image
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene in Mar-a-Lago Documents Case — article image
Trump Tells Former Aides Not to Cooperate With January 6 Investigation — article image
With Americans Struggling, Trump Halts COVID Relief Talks — Then Reverses Course Hours Later — article image
COVID Spreads Through Trump's White House as Press Secretary Tests Positive — article image
COVID Reaches the White House as Trump Campaign Continues Traveling — article image
Trump Publicly Calls on China to Investigate the Bidens — article image
Trump’s Hanoi Summit Collapses — No Deal, No Denuclearization, No Breakthrough — article image
Roger Stone Posts Judge’s Photo With Apparent Crosshairs — and Gets Gagged — article image
Congress Wouldn't Give Trump the Wall Money He Wanted. He Declared a National Emergency Instead. — article image
Trump Uses Venezuela’s Crisis to Launch a Broader Attack on Socialism — article image
Trump’s ‘Self-Made’ Fortune Story Unravels in Massive Tax Investigation — article image
Trump Opens a New Front in Trade Fight With China — article image
Rex Tillerson Is Out as Trump Shakes Up His National Security Team — article image
rump Launches Steel and Aluminum Tariffs in Major Shift on Trade — article image
After Parkland, Trump Calls for Arming Trained Teachers in America's Schools — article image
Mueller Indicts 13 Russians in Sweeping Operation to Interfere in the 2016 Election — article image
Trump Suggests Democrats Who Didn't Applaud Him Were “Treasonous” — article image
Trump Uses First State of the Union to Lay Out His “America First” Agenda — article image
Trump Takes “America First” to the World Economic Forum — article image
Trump’s Trade War Begins With Tariffs on Solar Panels and Washing Machines — article image
Government Shuts Down on the First Anniversary of Trump’s Presidency — article image
Trump Signs Sweeping Tax Law With Permanent Corporate Tax Cut — article image
Trump's Travel Ban Hits the Courts — Again — article image
Trump Refuses to Certify the Iran Nuclear Deal — article image
After Repeal Fails, Trump Ends Obamacare Insurance Payments — article image
Trump Administration Gives Employers Greater Power Over Women’s Birth-Control Coverage — article image
Trump Moves Toward Decertifying the Iran Nuclear Deal — article image
Trump Visits Las Vegas After Deadliest Mass Shooting in Modern U.S. History — article image
Trump Visits Devastated Puerto Rico as Paper-Towel Moment Comes to Define the Trip — article image
Trump Tosses Paper Towels in Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico — article image
As Puerto Rico Suffers, Trump’s Feud With San Juan’s Mayor Overshadows Hurricane Response — article image
As Puerto Rico Struggles After Maria, Trump Turns His Fire on the Island’s Leaders — article image
Hurricane Maria Devastates Puerto Rico, Leaving the Island Without Power — article image
Trump Threatens to “Totally Destroy North Korea” From the United Nations — article image
Trump Administration Moves to End DACA, Putting Dreamers’ Future in Doubt — article image
Trump’s Second Travel Ban Suffers Another Court Defeat — article image
Trump Pulls the United States Out of the Paris Climate Agreement — article image
After Court Defeat, Trump Tries Again With a New Travel Ban — article image
Trump Takes Aim at Obama-Era Clean Water Protections — article image
Trump Administration Withdraws Federal Guidance on Transgender Students — article image
Federal Appeals Court Deals Trump an Early Defeat Over Travel Ban — article image
Airport Protests Erupt Across America After Trump's Travel Ban — article image
Trump Pulls the United States Out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — article image
Trump’s National Security Adviser Resigns Just Weeks Into the Administration — article image
Trump Begins Rolling Back Post-Financial-Crisis Regulations — article image
President-Elect Trump Faces an Unprecedented Business Conflict Problem — article image
Trump Targets the F-35, Promising Billions in Savings — article image
Trump Begins Governing by Tweet — And Corporate America Gets the Message — article image
Trump Takes an Unprecedented Call From Taiwan — And Immediately Raises Questions About U.S. China Policy — article image
U.S. Government Publicly Blames Russia for Election Hacking — article image
RFK Jr. Tells Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend in the White House’ as Measles Cases Surge — article image
Secret Drug Pricing Deals Reveal What Trump Didn’t Tell Americans — article image
Trump Wins New Hampshire — And the Political Establishment Realizes This Is No Joke — article image
Trump University: The Business Scandal Following Donald Trump Into the 2016 Campaign — article image