• Fact-checking key moments in Bondi's tenure as Trump's attorney general

    Fact-checking key moments in Bondi's tenure as Trump's attorney general

    Apr 03, 2026 09:37 PM EDT

    ... administration. Law enforcement and prosecutors in Minnesota started investigating major fraud perpetrated by Minnesota nonprofit, Feeding Our Future, in 2021. By mid-January 2025, before Trump took office, prosecutors had charged 70 people in the Feeding Our Future case in addition to five for a related juror bribery scheme. Trump ...

  • Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran

    Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran

    Apr 03, 2026 08:17 PM EDT

    ... the U.S. military led by their father. The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father began. WATCH: Prediction markets, pardons spark questions over ...

  • What Trump's Iran war means for Republicans ahead of midterms

    What Trump's Iran war means for Republicans ahead of midterms

    Apr 03, 2026 04:43 PM EDT

    ... eight years, spawning a generation of anti-war Republicans — and sowing the seeds of Trump's “America First” foreign policy. “My hope is that the Trump experience is the exact opposite of the Bush experience,” Fleischer said. He said Trump must win the war decisively and quickly to avoid a ...

  • Trump calls for a major increase in defense spending alongside cuts in domestic spending

    Trump calls for a major increase in defense spending alongside cuts in domestic spending

    Apr 03, 2026 01:16 PM EDT

    ... president's budget arrives as the House and Senate remain tangled over current-year spending and stalemated over DHS funding, with Democrats demanding changes to Trump’s immigration enforcement regime that Republicans are unwilling to accept. Trump announced Thursday he would sign an executive order to pay all DHS workers ...

  • What to know about Todd Blanche, Trump's pick for acting attorney general

    What to know about Todd Blanche, Trump's pick for acting attorney general

    Apr 03, 2026 01:05 PM EDT

    Blanche left Cadwalader in 2023, telling colleagues he was resigning to represent Trump. He joined the president's defense team just prior to his arraignment in the hush money case. In an email announcing his departure, he wrote: “I have been asked to represent Trump in the recently charged DA ...

  • Global leaders work to ease oil price surge as Trump signals more weeks of Iran war

    Global leaders work to ease oil price surge as Trump signals more weeks of Iran war

    Apr 02, 2026 10:45 PM EDT

    ... President Donald Trump: When this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally. Nick Schifrin: Last night, President Trump argued that Iran's desire to sell oil will mean the problem of the Strait of Hormuz will solve itself. But President Trump also ...

  • News Wrap: National Capital Planning Commission approves Trump's ballroom project

    News Wrap: National Capital Planning Commission approves Trump's ballroom project

    Apr 02, 2026 10:40 PM EDT

    But they also rejected President Trump's attempt to pardon Peters, since she remains convicted of state crimes. In Northern California, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck early this morning, rattling millions as they slept. The quake struck near the small mountain town of Boulder Creek, but was felt up ...

  • How Gulf nations and European allies are responding to Trump's Iran address

    How Gulf nations and European allies are responding to Trump's Iran address

    Apr 02, 2026 10:35 PM EDT

    Amna Nawaz: Robin, in the minute or so we have left, you have mentioned Mr. Trump's repeated threats to leave NATO. And after European allies rebuffed his efforts to help reopen the strait last month, he threatened to stop sending weapons to Ukraine. How are those threats, are those ...

  • With Iran war address, Trump urges increasingly skeptical electorate to give him a bit more time

    With Iran war address, Trump urges increasingly skeptical electorate to give him a bit more time

    Apr 02, 2026 09:05 PM EDT

    Democrats lash at Trump for failing to offer a coherent argument for conflict Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said Trump's speech was “grounded in a reality that only exists in Donald Trump’s mind.” The president, Democrats fumed, offered no plan for how he would go about reopening Hormuz ...

  • Democrats sue to block Trump's executive order targeting mail ballots

    Democrats sue to block Trump's executive order targeting mail ballots

    Apr 02, 2026 07:24 PM EDT

    ... defendants, along with top administration officials. "We will see him in court and we will beat him again," Schumer said in a statement. Democrats said Trump was attempting to strike at the heart of America's democratic machinery. “President Trump has tried again and again to rewrite election rules for ...