• WATCH: Trump 'OK' with public Epstein survivor hearings

    WATCH: Trump 'OK' with public Epstein survivor hearings

    Apr 16, 2026 10:01 PM EDT

    ... Trump's recent comments on Epstein and if he supports her call for Congress to hold a public hearing for survivors. WATCH: First lady Melania Trump denies any ties to Jeffrey Epstein and calls for survivors' testimony In a White House address last week, Melania Trump denied allegations that she ...

  • WATCH: Trump says the pope has to understand that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon

    WATCH: Trump says the pope has to understand that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon

    Apr 16, 2026 08:53 PM EDT

    President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has "to do what’s right" as he pushes back against Pope Leo XIV on Iran war. Watch the clip in the video player above. “I have to do what’s right — the pope has to understand that,” Trump told reporters. “I have ...

  • WATCH: Vought won't say how much Trump has spent on Iran war so far

    WATCH: Vought won't say how much Trump has spent on Iran war so far

    Apr 16, 2026 08:37 PM EDT

    ... nearly 50% increase to $1.5 trillion — to build his "dream military." The president's budget request is not final, but it does signal the Trump administration's priorities for the coming fiscal year. Though Trump has tried to exert more authority over spending in his second term, it's ...

  • WATCH: Trump attends Tax Day roundtable in Las Vegas as he touts 'no tax on tips' policy

    WATCH: Trump attends Tax Day roundtable in Las Vegas as he touts 'no tax on tips' policy

    Apr 16, 2026 07:39 PM EDT

    It takes a lot of repetition for a message like promoting the tax bill to break through to voters, but Trump’s tendency to drift into other subjects can dilute that, Bonjean said. Trump, who has at times dismissed affordability concerns as “a hoax,” and “con job” from Democrats, has ...

  • Key federal agency backs concept for Trump's Triumphal Arch plan

    Key federal agency backs concept for Trump's Triumphal Arch plan

    Apr 16, 2026 02:33 PM EDT

    ... events. The new facility would have seven lanes to ease processing and reduce wait times. Officials want it operating by July 2028, six months before Trump’s term ends. Eisenhower Executive Office Building paint jobTrump said the Executive Office Building is beautiful, but he doesn't like its gray exterior ...

  • House considers bill to protect Haitian immigrants in pushback against Trump administration

    House considers bill to protect Haitian immigrants in pushback against Trump administration

    Apr 16, 2026 01:29 PM EDT

    In a matter of days, the Supreme Court is prepared to consider a fast-track case that would end the protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants in a challenge that is widely seen as threatening the broader program. The Trump administration filed emergency appeals after lower courts stopped the ...

  • Justice Jackson calls out Supreme Court conservatives' pro-Trump emergency orders

    Justice Jackson calls out Supreme Court conservatives' pro-Trump emergency orders

    Apr 16, 2026 12:51 AM EDT

    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.”

  • Trump administration prepares for pivot to economic warfare on Iran

    Trump administration prepares for pivot to economic warfare on Iran

    Apr 15, 2026 11:41 PM EDT

    ... Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, a think tank that has been critical of Trump's decision to launch the war, says that Trump had been “politically cornered and strategically constrained" before he announced the ceasefire. But now, Parsi argues, Trump may have altered the difficult dynamic and ...

  • House Democrats attempt anti-corruption message to gain traction against Trump

    House Democrats attempt anti-corruption message to gain traction against Trump

    Apr 15, 2026 11:22 PM EDT

    ... deals, especially when the business belongs to a sitting president. Anti-corruption pledges have been heard before Promises to clean up Washington are nothing new. Trump campaigned in 2016 and 2024 on a vow to “drain the swamp.” Democrats won back control of the House in 2018, at the midpoint ...

  • Trump's DOJ targets Jan. 6 convictions, broadens Fed construction site probe

    Trump's DOJ targets Jan. 6 convictions, broadens Fed construction site probe

    Apr 15, 2026 10:35 PM EDT

    Geoff, of course, all of this is happening as President Trump has repeatedly and directly called for the Department of Justice to prosecute his political adversaries. And Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, in an interview with NBC last night, defended that contact. Todd Blanche, Acting U.S. Attorney General: That ...