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President Donald Trump signing an act on July 18, 2025, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.

The controversy surrounding Trump’s pardons goes from bad to worse

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump speaks into a microphone at a podium.

Trump’s many, many promises fall apart almost immediately — if you look closely

Philip Bump

Sen. Bill Cassidy and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Cassidy was the key vote for RFK Jr. Now, a group with ties to Kennedy is backing the senator’s likely challenger.

Will McDuffie

President Donald Trump in the White House.

Democrats have a strategy on Trump’s Greenland threats: Put Republicans in the hot seat

Lillie Boudreaux & Peggy Helman

European countries balk at Trump’s Greenland tariffs threat

Erum Salam

Trump connects his Greenland crusade to his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz at a roundtable discussion on rural health care investments on Jan. 16, 2026 in the East Room of the White House.

After unveiling a pitiful health care ‘plan,’ Trump struggles to explain its merits

Steve Benen

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks in United Nations Plaza at the culmination of the April 15, 1967 anti-Vietnam War march that went from Central Park to the UN.

MLK Jr.’s anti-war warning feels impossible to ignore now

Hayes Brown

Two photos side by side. On the left, the quarterback of the Miami Hurricanes running to the right holding a football; on the right, the quarterback of the Indiana Hoosiers running to the left holding a football.

College football is forever changed. This Indiana-Miami title game is proof.

Keith Reed

TRUMP 2.0: YEAR ONE 

An illustration of Trump pointing at his own back, as the image wraps around the border

At the one-year mark, Trump runs headfirst into the dreaded ‘fifth-year curse’

Steve Benen

A photo illustration of Trump with Republican elephant logos in lockstep overlaying him

Republicans admit Trump’s grip on the congressional GOP is as tight as ever

Mychael Schnell & Kevin Frey

An extreme close up of Donald Trump and a bar of text that reads "Trump 2.0 Year One"

Trump 2.0 rehashed ‘America First.’ But now, it’s against the world.

Julia Jester & Jake Traylor

Sen. Cory Booker smiles in the Capitol.

Cory Booker touts a ‘monstrous leap’ for Senate Democrats on social media

Ali Vitali

A United States map in blue shows President Trump through the blue state holes that voted for Biden in 2020.

Trump’s plot to tear the country in two

Paul Waldman

A person yells while holding up a cell phone.

Republicans’ ‘paid protesters’ nonsense takes an ugly turn in Minnesota

Steve Benen

A photo illustration of a person holding an iPhone while filming an ICE agent

There’s a reason the DOJ wants to stop Minneapolis citizens from filming ICE

Scott Hechinger

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn

Study debunks Trump claims, shows no link between acetaminophen and autism

Steve Benen

CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil interviews President Donald Trump

White House told CBS News that Trump would sue if his interview was edited

Erum Salam

President Trump meets with cabinet at The White House.

Reagan-appointed judge slams ‘unconstitutional conspiracy,’ calls Trump an ‘authoritarian’

Steve Benen

This is a split image of Tim Waltz at left and Donald Trump at right.

Trump’s DOJ to investigate Walz and Frey, but not ICE agent who shot Renee Good

Steve Benen

A silhouette of President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House.

Trump threatens tariffs on European allies to force Greenland sale

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Guns confiscated at New York City public schools at a news conference on May 25, 2022, in New York City.

Trump’s Justice Department rejects federal ban on mailing concealable firearms

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump meets with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Jan. 15, 2026 in the Oval Office.

The real reason Machado gave her Nobel medal to Trump

Zeeshan Aleem

High-speed trains collide in Spain, killing at least 39 people

Kathleen Creedon

Ashley St. Clair.

Elon Musk’s ex Ashley St. Clair is using ancient legal arguments to fight a modern problem

Jessica Levinson

A photo illustration composed of hands holding a knife and fork around a tortilla with a piece of grilled chicken and a piece of broccoli.

What the Brooke Rollins $3 meal meme shows about Team Trump’s economic blindness

Helaine Olen

A photo collage of menacing-looking ICE agents with Trump pointing overlayed

Something darker is taking shape inside Trump’s ICE

Zeeshan Aleem

A line of ICE agents with guns drawn at nighttime.

Court blocks ICE agents from detaining peaceful protesters in Minneapolis

Clarissa-Jan Lim

How Maine’s governor is preparing for her state to become ICE’s next target

Allison Detzel

The badge of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 09, 2025 in New York City.

Democrats condemn ICE lawyer’s return to work after report links him to racist account

Ja'han Jones

Trump backs potential challenger in Louisiana Senate race

Jack Smith to testify publicly before Congress this week

Minneapolis police chief questions ICE actions

WaPo: Pentagon preparing 1,500 troops for possible Minnesota deployment

Iowa organization trains people how to respond to ICE raids: ‘People are outraged’

Holder: DOJ probe into Minnesota Democrats is ‘patently unconstitutional’

Ex-ICE official reacts to Trump potentially sending troops to Minnesota: ‘Reality TV enforcement’

MS NOW OPINION

Understand Today’s News

  1. A photo illustration of a whistle in front of Renee Good's vehicle after being involved in a shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations.

    Trump’s latest smear of Renee Good

    Jarvis DeBerry

  2. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Washington, D.C.

    How ICE could sink a deal to fund the government

    Hayes Brown

  3. President Trumps walks out of the White House at night, holding a large black umbrella.

    Trump’s Minnesota threats suggest he may be close to unleashing what he’s always wanted

    Philip Bump

  4. Federal law enforcement officers during confrontations with residents in Minneapolis.

    I’m a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here’s how ICE observers are helping.

    Nicole Bedera

  5. An ICE agent signals "stop" with his left hand up while holding a spray bottle as other agents follow him.

    ICE funding jumped $75 billion. Here’s my plan to redirect the windfall.

    U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

  6. Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin talks with reporters on Jan. 12, 2026 in Pittsburgh.

    What Mike Tomlin leaving the Steelers might mean for the NFL

    Keith Reed

  7. Emissions rise from the Royal Dutch Shell Plc Norco Refinery in Norco, La.

    Trump’s EPA is giving companies a license to make Americans sick

    Hayes Brown

  8. A window, acting as a prism, multiplies an image of Donald Trump on a TV.

    Trump’s ‘morality’ can be summed up in 5 words

    Kristen Monroe

  9. Vice President JD Vance claps as President Donald Trump smiles.

    This new DOJ fraud division gives Trump a tool no president should have

    Austin Sarat

  10. The arson attack on Beth Israel isn’t typical of Mississippi. But the response to it is.

    Stuart Rockoff

  11. People hold signs reading "Who will ask the questions" and "Less news we all lose" outside the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette building.

    Another local newspaper shuttering is bad news for America

    Keith Reed

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