President Donald Trump granted a “full pardon” to former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, though it may not be able to save her from prison.Peters was convicted in 2024 on state charges for her role in trying to overturn the 2020 election, and her appeal is still working through...
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President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in an effort to push a new congressional map for Indiana after the bill failed.Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had been pressuring Indiana’s state legislature for months to redraw the state’s congressional districts to strip Democrats of two seats. These efforts ultimately...
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting states’ regulation of artificial intelligence after months of wrangling.Republican senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to include a provision in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would prevent states from regulating AI, but the effort failed after last-minute hesitation...
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The department sent a memo to National Park Service directors and superintendents ordering a review of retail products in park stores. The memo said retail items are considered “public-facing content” and are therefore subject to Interior Department Order 3416, titled “Ending DEI Programs and Gender Ideology Extremism,” which implements President...
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the United States intends to “seize” the crude oil carried onboard the Skipper, an oil tanker captured in international waters off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday.President Donald Trump announced the seizure of the tanker on Wednesday afternoon at the top of his...
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The White House admitted that it’s “a point of frustration” that public sentiment regarding the economy does not reflect positive economic data.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt forcefully defended President Donald Trump’s economic record during Thursday’s press briefing, arguing that he inherited an “economic mess” from former President Joe Biden....
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a press briefing at around 1 p.m. on Thursday, a day after the United States seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast.President Donald Trump said the U.S. seized the tanker on Wednesday. US SEIZED OIL TANKER OFF VENEZUELAN COAST: TRUMP “We’ve...
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MOUNT POCONO, Pennsylvania — President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night audience left the Mount Airy Casino Resort in high spirits, but some attendees had lingering doubts about the current and future state of the economy.Republicans have spent weeks pressing Trump and White House officials to do more to sell the president’s economic...
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[embedded content] President Donald Trump is participating in a roundtable focused on an unknown topic. The event was scheduled for 2 p.m. Earlier Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a drop in interest rates. Also earlier in the day, Trump called with various European leaders about negotiations with Ukraine...
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Elon Musk voiced a negative retrospective view of his grand government reform project, the Department of Government Efficiency, saying he wouldn’t do it again if given the chance.In an interview on Katie Miller’s podcast, Musk was asked if, knowing what he knows now, he would do DOGE again. “I mean,...
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President Donald Trump, with over three years left in his term, has refrained from passing the MAGA baton to any of his possible successors, keeping his looming lame-duck status at bay.Despite signaling that Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be the heirs to his coalition,...
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested he may take action against the “treasonous” New York Times for publishing a negative report on his health.“The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am ‘slowing up,’ am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in...
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