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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 11 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...
Mere hours after the markets were slightly buoyed by a White House announcement that Donald Trump’s global tariff plan would see a 90-day pause,...
A Republican lawmaker has a new wildly racist explanation for the deadly measles outbreak. During a CNN town hall Thursday, Representative Ryan...
Donald Trump’s administration falsely declared more than 6,300 immigrants dead in an attempt to get them to self-deport, The New York Times...
Next on the White House’s chopping block: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Trump administration is planning to close “all...
The Trump administration is desperate to convince Americans that Donald Trump’s trade war won’t affect their wallets. U.S. Trade Representative...
Donald Trump’s plan to acquire Greenland is very real, and it apparently involves convincing the country to hand itself over to U.S. control. The...
Donald Trump’s administration has been begging for a call from Chinese President Xi Jinping—despite Trump’s claims that his reciprocal tariff...
The Department of Justice offered a flimsy excuse Friday for why it couldn’t comply with an order to present plans to return the Maryland father...
Donald Trump’s former attorney turned interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey is threatening to prosecute the state’s governor. Alina Habba, following...
China has fired back at Donald Trump’s tariff hike with one of its own. The country raised tariff rates against the U.S. from 85 percent to 125...
We don’t really learn anything new about Donald Trump anymore. He’s the same old liar and buffoon he’s been for 50 years. But sometimes we...
This weekend, The Guardian reported that the Trump administration is “quietly” planning to gut both federal and state regulations on PFAS, which...
Some of the media headlines have been breathless. Time magazine hailed “The Return of the Dire Wolf.” On the venerable news magazine’s cover,...
After President Trump’s supposed tariff “pause,” we still have a 10 percent tariff on most global imports; the trade war with China is...
The restaurant as we know it was invented in Paris around the late 1700s. Foreign visitors called the city’s restaurants the “most peculiar” and...
As Americans navigate Donald Trump’s deranged war on global trade, consumers have never trusted him less. Consumer sentiment has plunged for the...
Donald Trump wants to save the coal industry. Earlier this week, he signed a rash of executive orders to reopen shuttered coal plants, subsidize...
The U.S. military has fired yet another woman it disagrees with. Colonel Susan Meyers, the commander of the U.S. military base in Greenland, was...
It turns out that Donald Trump’s erratic tariff policy is not popular with manufacturing workers. A new Washington Post poll of over 500 workers...
Five more major law firms have succumbed to President Donald Trump’s punitive threats as he continues his blatantly illegal intimidation of legal...
The White House is now asking people in power to forget the evidence of their eyes and ears. Two planes bumped wings while taxiing on the runway at...
President Donald Trump falsely suggested Thursday that autism may be caused by a “shot,” parroting his anti-vax health secretary. During a Cabinet...
The public reaction to Donald Trump’s tariff reversal has not been good. CNN’s John Berman decided to spew off a list of headlines Thursday morning...
President Donald Trump’s tariff chaos continues. He just announced a big reversal: For 90 days, the reciprocal tariffs will come down, but a...
To take on a subject that has been extensively written about requires a degree of both daring and ambition in an author. When I started to read The...
The Trump administration’s basis for seeking to strip pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil of his green card amounts to this: He didn’t do...
Donald Trump is openly bragging about just how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his dangerous tariff gambit. After announcing a...
Buried within Donald Trump’s executive order “undoing the left’s war on water pressure” was a shady phrase to help the president fast-track his...
President Donald Trump’s stupidity, incompetence, and self-delusion—all of which were on full display this past week, as he single-handedly pushed...
House Republicans approved a budget Thursday, pushing Donald Trump’s dream bill closer to reality. With the budget framework in the rearview,...
Donald Trump may have reversed course on tariffs, but that doesn’t mean the economy has reversed course away from a recession. Some of the...
Donald Trump claimed that his party was “working nicely together,” just hours after House Republicans’ infighting forced them to delay a vote on a...
A federal judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss a new defamation lawsuit from the Central Park Five. In a 20-page filing ,...
At the White House Thursday, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump admitted that U.S. troops have been deployed to the Panama Canal....
Donald Trump’s tariff reversal Wednesday reduced duties against most countries’ imports to 10 percent—except China, which was instead being...
Donald Trump is taking revenge against two officials from his first term. On Wednesday, the president issued directives stripping the security...
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fired car safety experts in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who directly...
President Trump’s top allies and advisers know that when the going gets tough, the way to keep Trump from flying entirely off the rails is to...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily...
President Donald Trump brought the stock market to the edge of a bear market (i.e., a sustained 20 percent drop) by imposing ridiculously high...
The highest form of freedom in a democracy isn’t just the right to vote or protest—it’s the right to speak truth to power. To call out...