If words won wars, Donald Trump’s Iran conflict would have ended long ago. But the president still can’t find a way out of a war meant to last no more than a month and a half that is now grinding int

President Donald Trump turned his Truth Social feed into an AI slop factory Saturday afternoon, unleashing 16 posts in just 90 minutes. Nine of the posts appeared to feature obvious AI-generated imag

The Trump administration continued its illegal bombing of small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two and leaving one survivor in its third such strike in five days. US So

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, report

Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid £74 ($100) each towards a gold smartphone that, nearly a year on, does not exist. The Trump Mobile T1 phone was announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eri

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President Donald Trump made a “very important” Truth Social announcement Saturday to bolster support for his war in Iran. But he used weeks-old data and apparently didn’t read what he was sharing too

Many Key West residents protested Florida’s removal of a rainbow crosswalk by painting their fences in the same colors, only to be met with city fines. Now, a federal lawsuit backed by the American Ci

Tennessee State Rep. Pearson on redistricting fight: ‘We will win’ 08:35 ‘He’s 7 years old’: Tim O’Brien torches ‘so insecure’ Trump, says he has attitude ‘of a child’ 09:18 Trump hits ‘panic button

The Virginia Supreme Court building in Richmond, Virginia (credit: Morgan Riley / CC-BY-3.0) Virginia Democrats are looking for a way to overturn the state Supreme Court’s Friday decision invalidatin

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The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is urging the watchdog overseeing the Pentagon to investigate "shady" defense contracts that may have benefited the family of President Donald Trump.

After the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, Democratic lawmakers in the commonwealth notified the court they intend to appeal t

Supporters of the bill say citizens, rather than corporations, should have more power in elections. HONOLULU (CN) — Invoking America’s Founding Fathers, the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the

For decades, many Democrats have suspected what’s now being confirmed in plain English by a Trump insider. Ashley St. Clair — the 27-year-old former Turning Point USA brand ambassador and mother of on

Maybe John Roberts is getting uneasy that the American people are onto him. “I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do,” he told a

President Donald Trump told reporters that they would know when the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over. There would be "one big glow" out of Iran. They trifled with us today. We blew them a

Part of the Series Voting Wrongs Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. The Supreme Court

Donald Trump 's media company lost more than four hundred times more money than it made from January to March this year. The quarterly report from Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) showed the c

Gavin Newsom is escalating his war on Donald Trump’s mental fitness—this time by accusing the president of hiding from the press after challenging him to a live cognitive test. The California governo

During an unexpected Q&A with reporters on Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about whether he was prepared to shift his tactics in the Middle East “now that gas prices are more than $4.50” pe

Trump Media and Technology Group, operator of social-media platform Truth Social, reported a massive net loss for the first three months of 2026 and less than $1 million in total sales. For the first

South Carolina Republicans took the first step Friday to cancel the state’s June primary election — to give more time to potentially pass a new gerrymandered congressional map — as absentee voting is

When Jeffrey Epstein's brother saw the purported suicide note left by the now-dead financier, he didn't believe it was real. Loading audio narration... Mark Epstein, who has long maintained that his

A former official from Donald Trump’s first term is sounding the alarm about a so-called “Doomsday Book” that could deliver the president unprecedented power if he acts upon it. Miles Taylor, who res

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said during a public conference this week that the so-called Trump Accounts established under the GOP's 2025 budget law represent a viable path toward Social Security privatiz

The redistricting news for Democrats has gone from bad to worse. A week after the US Supreme Court effectively destroyed the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to Southern states invalidating majori

President Trump really, really wants the war with Iran to end. He has declared victory many times, including about three weeks ago, when Iran briefly reopened the Strait of Hormuz. He has repeatedly e

In April 2025, following a meeting with oil company executives at the White House, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing then–Attorney General Pam Bondi to prevent states from hol

May 7, 2026 Updated May 8, 2026, 8:46 a.m. ET First lady Melania Trump and Donald Trump hosted military mothers at the White House on May 6. The crowd started chuckling when Melania Trump mentioned

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - Virginia political leaders have released statements regarding the Virginia Supreme Court’s move Friday to strike down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting pla

After nearly two weeks, the Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a voter-approved measure to redraw the commonwealth's congressional districts. The measure, which was led by Democrats and passed by

The Supreme Court of Virginia invalidated a voter-approved redistricting referendum on Friday, ruling that lawmakers failed to follow the constitutional process required to place the measure on the ba

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NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent asserted in a post on X that prior to the start of the Iran war, the U.S. intelligence community