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President Trump in profile at MetLife Stadium on July 13 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. David Ramos/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption David Ramos/Getty Images/Getty Images North America President Trump is facing backlash from his base after defending his administration’s review of the so-called Epstein files and downplaying his supporters’ distrust in the process. Last week, a …

Supreme Court gives Trump green light to fire Education Department workers  Axios Supreme Court Allows Trump to Gut Education Department With Mass Firings  The New York Times Supreme Court allows Trump’s mass layoffs at Education Department  NBC4 Washington Supreme Court lets Trump fire hundreds of Education Department workers and dismantle the agency  Yahoo News Trump: McMahon will begin process of dismantling Education Dept after …

Cuomo staying in New York mayoral race, bashes Mamdani’s “slick slogans”  Axios Cuomo to Fight On in Mayor’s Race After Bruising Primary Loss to Mamdani  The New York Times Candidates for NYC mayor working to try to stop momentum of Zohran Mamdani  ABC7 New York Cuomo announces uphill general election bid for New York City mayor  Politico Mamdani fundraises off Cuomo’s launch video – …

The first detainees have started arriving at Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s immigrant detention center in the Everglades. The facility went up on a former airstrip in eight days and will have an initial capacity of 3,000 detainees. Florida’s Republican state Atty. Gen. James Uthmeier, the driving force behind the project, posted on X recently that the center “will be checking in …

Protesters hold up an effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump in response to Trump’s announcement of 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods, in Sao Paulo, Thursday, July 10. Andre Penner/AP hide caption toggle caption Andre Penner/AP President Trump’s threat to impose higher tariffs on Brazil is “grotesquely illegal,” says Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. Brazil was among the countries Trump threatened …

New York City was drenched by torrential downpours Monday evening, with more than 2 inches of rain falling in just a single hour, making it the second-wettest hour in the city’s recorded history, one meteorologist said. According to meteorologist Greg Diamond, 2.07 inches of rain fell in Central Park between 7 and 8 p.m. That’s second only to the 3.47 …

RFK Jr.: ‘No cuts on Medicaid’ in ‘big, beautiful’ law  The Hill Why the health care lobby failed to stop cuts to Medicaid funding  NPR One Rural Doctor on the Cuts to Medicaid  The New York Times What Trump’s spending bill means for Wisconsin BadgerCare, health care  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The megabill’s Medicaid cuts shocked hospitals, but they may never happen  Politico Source link

Donald Trump has said that he is disappointed but not done with Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive phone call with the BBC. The US president was pressed on whether he trusts the Russian leader, and replied: “I trust almost no-one.” Trump was speaking hours after he announced plans to send weapons to Ukraine and warned of severe tariffs on Russia …

“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Saturday. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her.” Is revoking the citizenship of …

A broken promise to release more information about the Jeffrey Epstein case has sparked outrage among some of President Donald Trump’s loyal supporters. The Justice Department last week said Epstein, who was facing charges of sex trafficking, did not leave behind a “client list.” Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested in February it was on her desk, though she later said …