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President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on Sept. 23, 2025.

Trump’s national security strategy creates a disturbing world order 

Philip Bump

Sydney Sweeney at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Oct. 18, 2025.

Sydney Sweeney still doesn’t get it

Zeeshan Aleem

Rep. Nancy Mace on Feb. 28, 2024, in Washington D.C.

Nancy Mace turned an encounter with airport staff into a ‘spectacle,’ report says

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Marjorie Taylor Greene: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview was a Trumpian master class

Anthony L. Fisher

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans mock Trump behind his back

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump on Dec. 2 at the White House.

On ‘double-tap’ boat strike video, Trump pretends he didn’t say what we heard him say

Steve Benen

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at the Capitol on Oct. 8, 2025.

Lawmakers bash leaders for cutting IVF coverage from Pentagon policy bill

Mychael Schnell & Julianne McShane

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in Chicago, IL.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs bill to protect immigrants from ICE operations

Kathleen Creedon

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States fight back as Trump’s CDC wages war on health and science

Rachel Maddow

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt listens to a reporter's question during a White House press briefing

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew released from ICE detention

Julianne McShane

The Contemplation of Justice statue outside the US Supreme Court beside a "Don't Walk" upraised hand symbol in Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court hearing exposes Republicans’ ‘bait and switch’ on campaign finance

Jordan Rubin

Pam Bondi; Ed Martin.

Trump delegates sweeping powers over 2020 election pardons to Bondi, Martin

Steve Benen

Alina Habba.

Alina Habba’s new job in Trump’s Justice Dept. isn’t much better than her old one

Steve Benen

‘This is sick’: Nicolle Wallace blasts Trump after he calls female reporter ‘obnoxious’

Allison Detzel

A tractor berms soil for almond trees.

The top 10 problems with Trump’s bailout for U.S. farmers

Steve Benen

Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo.

Americans are blaming Trump for the economy. His favorite news network is blaming them.

Ja'han Jones

A combine harvests soybeans in Marion, Ky.

Trump administration announces $12 billion farm aid package

Sydney Carruth

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One.

Lashing out at women in media, Trump can’t seem to help himself

Steve Benen

(L-R) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy.

SCOTUS poised to ‘destroy the structure of government’ in Trump v. Slaughter case

Jordan Rubin

President Donald Trump, alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House.

Hegseth and Bondi also said troops must disobey illegal orders in prior remarks

Steve Benen

Ghislaine Maxwell in New York City.

Federal judge grants release of Ghislaine Maxwell’s grand jury records

Sydney Carruth

Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Mass., on Sept. 8, 2004.

Epstein emailed with Silicon Valley elites about racist, eugenicist ideas

Ja'han Jones

President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with farmers

On affordability and consumer costs, Trump goes all-in on an alternate reality

Steve Benen

Gov. Josh Shapiro defends Harris criticism: ‘I stand by what I said’

Allison Detzel

New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp speak.

Palantir co-founders keep mistaking violence for masculine virtue

Ja'han Jones

An Obamacare sign sits in front of an insurance agency

ACA’s popularity reaches new heights as Republicans struggle with health care policy

Steve Benen

Sen. Fetterman: Trump has to ‘sell his own voters’ in Pennsylvania as he ‘loses the plot’
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers remarks in Washington D.C.

‘Armchair tough guy’: Hegseth in 2016 slammed Trump, said troops won’t follow unlawful orders

Rep. Jasmine Crockett launches Senate bid, says she can win over Trump voters

Former Rep. Colin Allred drops U.S. Senate bid

MTG discusses Trump’s ‘unkind’ response to death threats she says targeted her son

Army veteran on being detained by DHS: ‘No one should have to go through any of this’

Fmr. Scalia clerk reacts to Supreme Court hearing: ‘We have one person with way too much power’

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Understand Today’s News

  1. Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez is escorted by the police to be extradited to U.S.to face charges of taking bribes from drug traffickers at Honduran National Directorate of Special Forces on April 21, 2022, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

    Trump’s pardon of Honduras’ former president gives away the game

    Zeeshan Aleem

  2. Donald Trump and media personality Megyn Kelly at Trump's campaign rally in Pittsburgh, P.A.

    Megyn Kelly’s shocking viral comments mirror a broader MAGA obsession

    Anthony L. Fisher

  3. President Donald Trump at the White House.

    The cruel consequences of Trump’s casual use of the R-word

    Eric Garcia

  4. Framed portraits of President Donald Trump flank an image of former President Joe Biden's signature and an autopen along "The Presidential Walk of Fame" at the White House.

    The dangerous strategy at the heart of Trump’s nonsensical autopen obsession

    Barbara McQuade

  5. Afghan refugees disembark from a U.S. Air Force aircraft in Spain after an evacuation flight from Kabul on Aug. 31, 2021.

    There’s a bill to improve Afghan vetting and resettlement. Congress hasn’t passed it for three years.

    Kristen L. Rouse

  6. Lane Kiffin stands behind a podium at a press conference at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, L.A.

    The fallout from Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss departure will be felt for years to come

    Jason Page

  7. Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, T.N.

    Trump’s pardon of a former Honduran president boils down to a cryptocurrency play

    Philip Bump

  8. U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino sits in the driver's seat surrounded by media and protesters.

    Greg Bovino’s blatant lying to a judge crossed a line — even for MAGA supporters

    Austin Sarat

  9. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    RFK Jr.’s latest anti-vaccine move will cause untold harm to autistic Americans

    Eric Garcia

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