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An appeals court has denied an emergency motion from two of Donald Trump’s co-defendants to stop the release of a report on the...
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Donald Trump infamously told an audience...
Donald Trump, who sought to downplay the Covid-19 pandemic during his first term as president, is now trying to inflate the threat of a new disease...
The Supreme Court shockingly slapped down Donald Trump’s request to block the sentencing for his sole criminal conviction, leaving him with few...
Donald Trump is promising “unlimited water” to quell the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, but his plan isn’t exactly adding up. In an address...
Donald Trump gloated that the Americans “don’t need anything” from Canada, even as the Canadian government sent firefighters and supplies in...
Elon Musk is already sparking chaos in the federal government, sending representatives from his Department of Government Efficiency to agencies...
So here we are, at another one of those Trump moments that by now can only be called boringly surreal: The president-elect was sentenced Friday in...
President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday morning in his hush-money case, after becoming the first president to be convicted of multiple...
Over 35 years ago now, as the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of collapse and President George H.W. Bush worked to secure a peaceful conclusion...
Trump is claiming victory after becoming the first convicted felon who will enter the White House. Judge Juan Merchan on Friday sentenced Trump to...
This week, we learned that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke privately with Donald Trump to recommend a former clerk for a job. Jamie Raskin...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
One so seldom has the opportunity to report good news about labor unions that when two good things happen in the space of 24 hours that’s a...
The leader of Germany’s nativist far-right party wants us to believe that Adolf Hitler was actually a raging Communist. Alternative for Germany...
The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it will extend the temporary protected status of hundreds of thousands of South American...
The Supreme Court signaled on Friday that it is considering upholding Congress’s ban on TikTok until the platform separates itself from its...
Republicans aren’t interested in providing disaster aid to Californians suffering from the devastating wildfires, unless those Californians are...
Immediately after Donald Trump was finally sentenced in his hush-money case, the president-elect decided to try and make some money off it. On...
The day that Hurricane Andrew touched down in Florida in 1992, J.W. Greenberg—executive vice president of the finance and insurance giant...
Donald Trump is looking to reclaim one of his most useful tools of corruption: the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Wall Street...
With wildfires raging in Los Angeles, Donald Trump unleashed some ugly and hateful tirades on Truth Social. He attacked California Governor Gavin...
The Senate voted to advance a bill Thursday that would allow the government to detain undocumented immigrants accused of committing nonviolent...
The star witness who falsely alleged that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter took a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced to six years...
The right is blaming diversity, equity, and inclusion and “wokeness” for the response to massive wildfires in Southern California. Several...
Donald Trump appears to have a cozier relationship with the Supreme Court than previously thought. The president-elect reportedly had a private...
The Los Angeles wildfires have so far claimed 1,300 structures and threatened 60,000 more, torching a total area larger than Manhattan. Analysts...
By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sweeping measure that mandates the detention of...
It would be a stretch to say that the “major questions doctrine” doomed Democrats’ chances of keeping the White House in the 2024...
After Donald Trump said he’d like to make Canada our fifty-first state, Ontario Premier Doug Ford made a counteroffer: “How about if we buy...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
The highest court in New York has declined Donald Trump’s request that they stop his scheduled sentencing in his hush-money case on Friday. Judge...
Elon Musk is reneging on his biggest DOGE promise. In a live interview on X Wednesday evening with political strategist Mark Penn, the billionaire...
Elon has zeroed in on his next political target: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The world’s richest man has been consulting with his...
While one of the most devastating wildfires in American history rages on in Southern California, Republicans in Congress have decided to focus on...
It seems that Karen Pence still holds a grudge against Donald Trump for leaving her husband to the January 6 mob. Politicians past and present...
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act, which would allow Homeland Security to detain and deport undocumented...
A MAGA visit intended to make Greenland look pro–Donald Trump appears staged from the bottom up. The so-called tourism trip saw Donald Trump Jr.,...
The fires sweeping through Los Angeles are going to leave hundreds or perhaps thousands homeless. The speed at which the fires have spread has...
Meta employees are protesting the company’s new content moderation guidelines, which practically amount to no content moderation at all. Some of...
John Fetterman will become the first sitting Democratic senator to visit Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate following the 2024 election, CBS...
Republicans are using the devastating California wildfires as an excuse to score cheap political points against Democrats and Governor Gavin...
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that he will release some of the details from special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on...
France is warning Donald Trump against attempting to annex Greenland, saying that the European Union would not “let other nations in the...
Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in his New York hush-money case. The president-elect requested an administrative stay...
Even Donald Trump’s former allies don’t understand Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to block forthcoming details of special counsel Jack Smith’s...
Former Representative Matt Gaetz is considering running for office again, just weeks after getting chased out of the last one. Gaetz, the Florida...
Donald Trump has promised to pardon his January 6 rioters, telling Kristen Welker of Meet the Press last month, “Yeah, most likely, I’ll do it...
A Fox News employee gave Trump’s team a set of questions in advance of an Iowa Town Hall in January, according to an upcoming book from...
Rudy Giuliani is trying to get out of attending in-person trial proceedings, after being held in contempt of court, by pretending that his life is...
Within hours of announcing Meta’s policy changes to return the company to its “roots of free expression,” the company has already begun...
During the 2024 elections, the Israel lobby poured at least $45.2 million into winning candidates for Congress, the most by any organization in...
RFK Jr. is being accused of voter fraud. Watchdog group Accountable.US alleges that the former presidential candidate and current Trump pick to...
Los Angeles authorities have evacuated some 30,000 people as of Wednesday, as flames tear through the Pacific Palisades, threatening more than...
Senator Tommy Tuberville is so excited for Donald Trump to keep chasing the Panama Canal that he’s now imagining his own fantastical version of...
Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested Tuesday that the Department of Justice scale back the...
During a rambling press conference Tuesday, Donald Trump threatened that “all hell will break out” if hostages held by Hamas in Gaza aren’t...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
At a press conference on Tuesday, Donald Trump uncorked a series of bizarre, angry, ramblings, signaling that things are about to get very, very...
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (wearing a $900,000 watch ) announced yesterday morning that across their over-seven-billion-user-strong social media...
Donald Trump is strongly considering classifying Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, CNN reported Wednesday. This designation would...
It’s a chilling fact that the Project 2025 playbook written for Donald Trump’s administration is just a roadmap for the first 180 days. But based...
When Joe Biden leaves office on January 20, he’ll retire from public life having notched one unequivocal foreign policy victory. Shortly after...
Early in Tell Me Everything , Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, the retired teacher Olive Kitteridge reads all of the memoirs by Lucy Barton, a...
On an unusually warm Washington winter afternoon, Gerald Rafshoon, spry and trim at 90, stood and watched as I carefully leafed through the pages of...
Donald Trump’s crazy idea to annex Greenland to the United States seems to have an unlikely supporter: Democratic Senator John Fetterman....
Donald Trump’s acolytes in the House of Representatives are so jazzed about his forthcoming administration that they’re practically handing him...
Officials at the Federal Reserve are worried that Trump’s policies will cause inflation to rise once again. Recent meeting notes included four...
Donald Trump couldn’t help but gloat Tuesday that he’d successfully bullied Mark Zuckerberg into making a spate of policy changes at Meta that...
Donald Trump’s bid to halt sentencing for his felony conviction in his hush-money case in New York hit a setback Tuesday when a state appeals...
A report from the inspector general’s office alleges that three senior Justice Department officials under Donald Trump had “partisan political...
The Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions each year but only agrees to hear a fraction of them. Sometimes this means the court overlooks...
Marjorie Taylor Greene is unsurprisingly feeling empowered by Trump’s plan to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to the “Gulf of America.” Trump...
The once-immense landscape of Donald Trump’s potential criminal liability has been reduced to a small patch of turf defined by whether his...
Amazon is paying Melania Trump a hefty amount of cash to produce a documentary about her. Puck reports that the media and retail giant is releasing...
Tesla is off to a bumpy start in 2024. Shares in the company fell 6 percent at the start of the year after it reported its first-ever annual...
With a few big moves in recent days, Donald Trump is already showing how he’ll make life miserable for Republicans in Congress, particularly Mike...
Trump’s biggest congressional obstacle may be MAGA diehards. Trump and the hard-right House Freedom Caucus have been politically misaligned of...
If a bill that the House of Representatives passed Tuesday becomes law, undocumented immigrants arrested for nonviolent crimes will be targeted for...
It’s official: Mark Zuckerberg is turning Meta into yet another propaganda machine for Donald Trump and the far right. In a video statement...
Donald Trump delivered incoherent remarks Tuesday while railing against what he imagined were Joe Biden’s energy and water conservation policies....
Donald Trump is somehow still harping on his vanity projects to acquire Greenland and Canada, and every day, the trolling feels more real. In a...
Donald Trump Jr. paid a visit to Greenland Tuesday, flying to the territory on his father’s private plane, and seemed to give weight to the...
Donald Trump has successfully blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the two federal criminal investigations into...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
Donald Trump just announced a massive new deal with a man connected to a $600,000 payment to the FBI informant convicted of lying to the FBI about...
It is hard to think of another living writer who produces structures as ebullient and dirigiblelike as Alan Hollinghurst does. His first novel, The...
Read Trump’s lips: No new windmills. The president-elect took time out of his rambling press conference on Tuesday to remind everyone just how...
Republican leaders in Congress are having a tough time figuring out how to pass Donald Trump’s agenda. Since Trump’s election, congressional...
Trump is caving on tariffs, and he isn’t even president yet. I’ve argued previously that the interests of the business lobby and the rich would...
Representative Mike Collins has taken the Republican rewrites of the January 6 riot to new heights. “On #ThisDayInHistory in 2021, thousands of...
Rudy Giuliani was held in contempt Monday for failing to comply with discovery requirements in his ongoing defamation case brought by two Georgia...